65 Notable Alumni of University of St. Gallen [Sorted List]

Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1945-.. (age 80)
Occupations: art collectorbusiness managermonarcharistocrat
Biography: Hans-Adam II is the Prince of Liechtenstein. He is the son of Prince Franz Joseph II and his wife, Countess Georgina von Wilczek. He also bears the titles Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, and Count of Rietberg. Under his reign, a 2003 constitutional referendum expanded the powers of the Prince of Liechtenstein. In 2004, Hans-Adam transferred day-to-day governmental duties to his eldest son Hereditary Prince Alois as regent, like his father had granted him in 1984 to prepare him for the role.

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit

Born in: Thailand
Years: 1978-.. (age 47)
Occupations: businesspersonpolitician
Biography: Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is a Thai businessman, politician, and activist who served as the leader of the Future Forward Party from 2018 to 2020. From 2002 to 2018, he was the vice president of the Thai Summit Group, Thailand's largest auto parts manufacturer.

Ola Källenius

Born in: Sweden
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: Studied finance and accounting
Occupations: businesspersonmanager
Biography: Sten Ola Källenius is a Swedish-German business executive. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Management and CEO of the Mercedes-Benz Group. Källenius was the first non-German to hold both positions prior to obtaining German citizenship.

Prince Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este

Born in: France
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: banker
Biography: Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este is a member of the Belgian royal family as the husband of Princess Astrid of Belgium. He is the head of the House of Austria-Este, a cadet branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine; he has held this position since 1996.

Josef Ackermann

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: Graduated with licentiate in economics and social science
Occupations: bankeruniversity teacherchairman of the executive boardentrepreneurbank manager
Biography: Josef Meinrad Ackermann is a Swiss banker, former chairman of the Bank of Cyprus, and former chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank. He has also been a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.

Ulf Mark Schneider

Born in: Germany
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Ulf Mark Schneider is a German-American businessman. He was CEO of Nestlé from 2017 to August 2024, and before that, CEO of the healthcare group Fresenius SE.

Rolf Dobelli

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Occupations: writermerchantnovelistentrepreneur
Biography: Rolf Dobelli born in Luzern, Switzerland, is a Swiss author and entrepreneur.

Christoph Heusgen

Born in: Germany
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: 1973-1977 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
Occupations: diplomat
Biography: Christoph Heusgen is a German diplomat who has served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022.

Paul Achleitner

Born in: Austria
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: 1976-1980 studied social science and jurisprudence
Occupations: university teacherbusiness consultantbank managerentrepreneur
Biography: Paul M. Achleitner is an Austrian businessman who served as chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2022.

Adrian Hasler

Born in: Liechtenstein
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: 1984-1991 graduated with licentiate in business administration
Occupations: businesspersonpoliticianeconomist
Biography: Adrian Hasler is an economist and politician from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2013 to 2021. He previously served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2001 to 2004.

Hartwig Löger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: businesspersonpolitician
Biography: Hartwig Löger is an Austrian politician and former business executive who served as minister of finance from 2017 to 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria. On 22 May 2019, following the Ibiza affair, he was named vice chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as acting chancellor after Austria's first ever successful vote of no confidence against a cabinet, leaving this post on 3 June 2019.

Magdalena Martullo-Blocher

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Magdalena Martullo stylized as Magdalena Martullo-Blocher is a Swiss businesswoman, politician (SVP), billionaire and the daughter of former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher. Her younger brother is Markus Blocher. She is the majority shareholder and executive vice chairman of Ems-Chemie. She has been a member of the National Council for the canton of Graubünden since 2015. She is a prominent member of the Blocher political family.

Jacqueline Badran

Born in: Australia
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Jacqueline "Jackie" Badran is a Swiss and Australian businesswoman and politician. She currently serves as a member of the National Council for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland since 2011. She is primarily known for her efforts in regard to affordable housing, including a campaign to ban Airbnb. She also holds Australian citizenship. She is one of the survivors of the Crossair Flight 3597 crash.

Othmar Karas

Born in: Austria
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Othmar Karas is an Austrian politician who served as the First Vice-President of the European Parliament since January 2022, having been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which in turn affiliates with the European People's Party.

Roger Schawinski

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1945-.. (age 80)
Occupations: radio personalityauthorjournalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Roger Schawinski is a Swiss businessman, media pioneer and journalist who is primarily known for creating the Swiss consumer watchdog program Kassensturz (English: "cash check"), founding several private TV and radio stations (namely TeleZüri and Tele24) as well as developing German-speaking Sat 1 TV station.

Peter Spuhler

Born in: Spain
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: entrepreneurpoliticianice hockey player
Biography: Peter Christoph Spuhler is a Swiss business magnate, industrialist and politician who most notably served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 1999 to 2012 for the Swiss People's Party.

Thomas Buberl

Born in: Germany
Years: 1973-.. (age 52)
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Thomas Buberl is a German businessman who has been the CEO of Axa since 2016.

Hans-Rudolf Merz

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1942-.. (age 83)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Hans-Rudolf Merz is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2004 to 2010. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) until the foundation of FDP.The Liberals in 2009, he headed the Federal Department of Finance during his tenure as a Federal Councillor. Merz served as President of the Swiss Confederation in 2009.

Nick Hayek

Born in: Algeria
Years: 1954-.. (age 71)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Georges Nicolas Hayek Jr. is a Swiss businessman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Swiss-based Swatch Group.

Daniel Jositsch

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
Biography: Daniel Reuwen Jositsch is a Swiss attorney and politician who currently serves on the Council of States (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party representing the Canton of Zürich since 2015. He previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2007 to 2015. He briefly served on the Cantonal Council of Zürich before resigning from the post in the fall of 2007. In 2022 and 2023 he declared candidacy for Federal Council (Switzerland) but both times was not officially nominated by his party.

Lars Feld

Born in: Germany
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Occupations: university teachereconomist
Biography: Lars Peter Feld is a German economist who currently serves as director of the Walter Eucken Institut and as Professor for Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg. From 2020 to 2021 he also chaired the German Council of Economic Experts. Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner made Feld his personal economic policy advisor in February 2022.

Valerie Hackl

Born in: Austria
Years: 1982-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politicianmanagerathlete
Biography: Valerie Hackl is an Austrian businesswoman and the managing director of Austro Control. In 2019, she briefly served as minister of infrastructure.

Sam Hinds

Born in: Guyana
Years: 1943-.. (age 82)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds is a Guyanese politician who was Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously from 1992 to 2015. He also briefly served as President of Guyana in 1997. He was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence (O.E.) in 2011.

Peter Fankhauser

Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: business executive
Biography: Peter Fankhauser is a Swiss businessman, who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Thomas Cook Group from 2014 until its collapse in 2019.

Ulrich Körner

Born in: Germany
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Occupations: chief executive officereconomist
Biography: Ulrich Körner is a German-Swiss businessman. In March 2021, he was named CEO Asset Management of Credit Suisse until July 2022, when he was appointed CEO of Credit Suisse AG.

Fredmund Malik

Born in: Austria
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: university teachereconomist
Biography: Fredmund Malik is an Austrian economist with focus on management science and the founder and chairman of a management consultancy (Malik Management) in St. Gallen.

Ankita Makwana

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1991-.. (age 34)
Occupations: modelactormotivational speaker
Biography: Ankita Makwana is a Swiss actress and model. She made her acting debut with the Bollywood thriller film Fever. She is founder of two film production companies, Rebelmango and Am films.

Urs Lehmann

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: alpine skiersports executive
Biography: Urs Lehmann is a former world champion in alpine skiing, president of the Swiss Ski Federation, CEO of the Similisan Group and candidate for the FIS presidency.

André Hoffmann

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1958-.. (age 67)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: Studied in 1979-1982
Occupations: economist
Biography: André Hoffmann is a Swiss billionaire businessman, environmentalist and philanthropist.

Ruedi Noser

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: entrepreneurpoliticianelectrical engineer
Biography: Rudolf "Ruedi" Noser is a Swiss businessman and politician who served on the Council of States (Switzerland) for The Liberals from 2015 to 2023. He previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2003 to 2015.

Theodor Weimer

Born in: Germany
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: business consultantmanagerchief executive officer
Biography: Theodor Weimer is a German manager who served as CEO of Deutsche Börse AG from 2018 to 2024. Prior to that, he was spokesman of the management board of Unicredit Bank AG (Germany) – known under the brand name HypoVereinsbank – from January 2009 to the end of 2017 and in this capacity he was also a member of the executive management committee of Unicredit Group, Milan (Italy).

Erik S. Reinert

Born in: Norway
Years: 1949-.. (age 76)
Occupations: university teachereconomic historianeconomist
Biography: Erik Steenfeldt Reinert is a Norwegian economist, with development economics, economic history and history of economic policy as his specialties.

Georges Kern

Born in: Germany
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Georges Kern is a German-Swiss entrepreneur, who has been CEO of Swiss watchmaker Breitling since 2017. He studied Political Science in Strasbourg, France, and graduated in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Dieter von Holtzbrinck

Born in: Germany
Years: 1941-.. (age 84)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: Studied economics
Occupations: publisher
Biography: Dieter von Holtzbrinck is one of the heirs to the Holtzbrinck publishing empire, founded by his father Georg von Holtzbrinck (1909–1983) in 1948. In 2006, his wealth was estimated at around US$1 billion.

Arnold Koller

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1933-.. (age 92)
Occupations: university teacherpolitician
Biography: Arnold Koller is a Swiss professor and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1987 to 1999 for the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). Koller previously served as a member of the National Council from 1971 to 1986. He did also serve two terms of the as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1990 and 1997. He is primarily known for Lex Koller, a Swiss Federal Act on Acquisitions of Real Estate by Persons Abroad, which he initiated.

Margret Suckale

Born in: Germany
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: business executive
Biography: Margret Suckale is a German manager and lawyer best known for her work as a member of the board of Deutsche Bahn AG.

Klaus Tschütscher

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Klaus Tschütscher is a politician from Liechtenstein who served as the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2009 to 2013. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2005 to 2009, under the government of Otmar Hasler.

Walter Kielholz

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1951-.. (age 74)
Occupations: manager
Biography: Walter Bruno Kielholz was chairman of the board of directors and former CEO of Swiss Re.

Michael Ringier

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1949-.. (age 76)
Occupations: collectorpublisher
Biography: Michael Ringier is a Swiss businessman, publisher and art collector. He has served as chairman of the board of directors of Ringier, a leading Swiss media company, since 2003. He is a prominent member of the Ringier family.

Peter Wuffli

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Peter A. Wuffli is a Swiss businessman who was appointed president and chief executive officer of UBS AG in December 2001 after having been chief executive of UBS Asset Management and the company's chief financial officer.

Bruno Zuppiger

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1952-2016 (aged 64)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Bruno Zuppiger was a Swiss management consultant and politician. A member of the conservative Swiss People's Party, he served on the Swiss National Council representing the Canton of Zürich.

Peer M. Schatz

Born in: United States
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: manager
Biography: Peer M. Schatz is a Swiss and Austrian entrepreneur and executive in the life sciences. He was the chief executive officer of QIAGEN N.V. from 2004 to 2019.

Rainer-Marc Frey

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: banker
Biography: Rainer-Marc Frey is a Swiss businessman and investor. He is active in the Swiss financial services sector and the international hedge fund industry.

Yves Daccord

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: journalistexecutive chairperson
Biography: Yves Daccord, is a humanitarian leader, international strategist, influencer and changemaker. From 2010 – March 2020 Yves was Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a global humanitarian organization employing 20,000 staff. A former journalist, TV producer and international relations expert, his ICRC career spanned more than two decades in a variety of posts and challenging contexts – including Israel and the Occupied Territories, Sudan, Yemen, Chechnya and Georgia. Daccord currently leads the Edgelands Institute Harvard University’s first-ever Pop-Up Institute. He also leads the #Principles4Peace initiative to reshape peace processes around the world and chairs the Board of the International Human Rights Film Festival of Geneva.

Elmar Ledergerber

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Elmar Ledergerber is a former Mayor of Zurich. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and was once named one of the most outstanding mayors of the year by a London think-tank. However he has also been criticized for not seeing through projects. He is currently active in promoting tourism to Zurich.

Katrin Eggenberger

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1982-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Katrin Eggenberger is a Swiss-Liechtensteiner academic and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Liechtenstein from November 2019 to March 2021.

Thomas Zwiefelhofer

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianarchitectjurist
Biography: Thomas Zwiefelhofer is a politician from Liechtenstein who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2013 to 2017. Since 2021, he has been the president of the Patriotic Union.

Martin Schmid

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Martin Schmid is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Council of States.

Oswald Sigg

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1944-.. (age 81)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Oswald Sigg is a Swiss journalist. In August 2005, he was elected Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland and Spokesman of the government of Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council. He served as Spokesman until his retirement on 31 March 2009.

Mauro Pedrazzini

Born in: Liechtenstein
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Mauro Pedrazzini is a politician from Liechtenstein who served as Minister of Social Affairs in the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein from 2013 to 2021.

Matteo Badilatti

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1992-.. (age 33)
Occupations: sport cyclist
Biography: Matteo Badilatti is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España, where he finished 110th overall.

Michael E. Dreher

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1944-2023 (aged 79)
Enrolled in the University of St. Gallen: Graduated with Master of Business Administration
Occupations: politician
Biography: Michael E. Dreher was a Swiss right-wing politician, and founder of the Freedom Party of Switzerland (originally "Motorist Party", German: Auto-Partei). He held an MBA from University of St. Gallen and was an MP from 1987 to 1999.

Stefan Schmittmann

Born in: Germany
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: businesspersonbanker
Biography: Stefan Schmittmann is a German manager. He has been chairman of the supervisory board of Commerzbank since May 2018.

Judith Bellaïche

Born in: France
Years: 1971-.. (age 54)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Judith Sarah Jäger Bellaiche is a Swiss lawyer, Green Liberal Party politician who served as a member of the National Council from 2019 to 2023. She is the managing director of Swico trade association.

Reinhard Schneider

Born in: Germany
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Occupations: businesspersonexecutive
Biography: Reinhard Schneider is a German business administrator and managing director of the Mainz-based family company Werner & Mertz, which is best known for its Frosch brand. In this position, he focused the company’s sustainability strategy and advocates greater commitment from the business community to climate and environmental protection. Schneider is holder of the German Environmental Prize 2019.

Yves Rüedi

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1976-.. (age 49)
Occupations: judgejuristlawyer
Biography: Yves Rüedi is a Judge of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.

Brenda Mäder

Years: 1986-.. (age 39)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Brenda Mader is a Swiss Politician (FDP), formerly President of the Young Liberals (Switzerland)

Peter W. Heller

Born in: Germany
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: environmental scientist
Biography: Peter W. Heller is a former deputy mayor of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany, economist, investor and venture philanthropist.

Christoffel Brändli

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1943-.. (age 82)
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Christoffel Brändli is a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Council of States from 1995 to 2011. He was a member of the Swiss People's Party. He served as the President of the Council of States for the 2007–08 term.

Ernst Homberger

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1869-1955 (aged 86)
Occupations: industrialistwatchmaker
Biography: Ernst Jakob Homberger was a Swiss industrialist. He was the director of the company Georg Fischer from 1902 and the director of the watch manufacturer International Watch Company from 1905.

Max von Zedtwitz

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: academic
Biography: Max von Zedtwitz is a scholar of global R&D and innovation with a focus on emerging countries. He is Managing Director of GLORAD, a research network with locations in China, the United States, Brazil and Europe, and professor at universities in Europe and China.

Rudolf Stämpfli

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: entrepreneurprinterpublisher
Biography: Rudolf Stämpfli is a Swiss entrepreneur of the graphic arts industry and publisher. Together with his brother Peter Stämpfli since 1988, he has run the sixth generation of the family business Stämpfli AG in Bern.

Kristian Widmer

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: film producer
Biography: Kristian Widmer is a Swiss entrepreneur, film producer, and television producer.

Bastiaan Quast

Occupations: economist
Biography: Bastiaan Quast is a Dutch-Swiss Machine learning researcher. He is the author and lead maintainer of the open-source rnn and transformer deep-learning frameworks in the R programming language, and the datasets.load GUI package, as well as R packages on Global Value Chain decomposition & WIOD and on Regression Discontinuity Design. Quast is a great-great-grandson of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tobias Asser.

Hanny Thalmann

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1912-2000 (aged 88)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Hanny Johanna Hermina Thalmann was a Swiss women's rights activist and politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party. She was among the first ten women to seat in the National Council after women's suffrage was introduced in 1971.