Andréa M. Maechler (born 1969 in Geneva) is a

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Career

Maechler studied at the

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, at the

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in Geneva obtaining a degree in international relations, at the Institut de hautes études en administration publique in Lausanne and at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

where she received her doctorate in international economics in 2000. She has worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD), the

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(UNCTAD) and the

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(WTO). From 2013 to 2014, Maechler was deputy head of the secretariat at the European Systemic Risk Board in Frankfurt. She was deputy head of Global Markets Analysis at the

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of las ...

in Washington. The department is tasked with monitoring capital markets and assessing systemic risks. Maechler was elected by the Federal Council on December 17, 2014, as the first woman to be a member of the Governing Board of the

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. She succeeded Jean-Pierre Danthine on July 1, 2015, for the term of office from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2021. On the Governing Board, she took over the 3rd department, most of which is based in Zurich. This department of the bank includes the financial markets and foreign exchange trading, operational banking and IT. In 2023, she left the SNB for the

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References

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