Dr. Felix Horber

Felix Horber has been Secretary General and Managing Director of Swiss Re since February 2007. He chairs the Board Secretary Chapter of the Swiss Institute of Directors and lectures at the Swiss Board School and the University of St. Gallen.

Felix is a regular part-time judge at the High Court of the Canton of Zug, represents Swiss Re on the Legal Commission of economiesuisse, and was a member of the Admission Board of the SWX Swiss Exchange.

He began his career at UBS, where he was Corporate Legal Counsel in the Group General Counsel’s Department and Senior Advisor for corporate legal matters and transactions. Felix studied law at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1986. He was admitted to the bar of the Canton of Zug in 1988 and completed several post-graduate studies at the University of St. Gallen.