Jean-Pierre Roth (mathematician)
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Jean-Pierre Roth (born on 28 April 1946) is a Swiss banker who served as chairman of the
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from 1 January 2001 until 31 December 2009. He joined the Swiss National Bank in 1979, working in
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and
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. He became vice-chairman of the governing board in 1996. In 2001, he became chairman of the governing board. Between 2001 and 2009 he was Governor of the Washington-based
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(IMF) for Switzerland and chairman of the board of directors of the
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(BIS) in Basel. Roth has been credited with the measures taken to restore public confidence in the Swiss banking system. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of
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since 2010, of
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from 2010 to 2016 and of
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from 2010 to 2019. He was Chairman of Banque cantonale de Genève from 2010 to 2017. He has been Vice Chairman of Arab Bank Switzerland since 2017 and a member of the Board of Directors of
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since 2014. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of
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from 2010 to 2018. He was also a member of the ETH Zurich Foundation.Biografie
bei der Schweizerischen Nationalbank (PDF), Stand: 3 September 2019.


Education

He received a doctorate in economics from the
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in Geneva. He pursued postdoctoral studies at
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(MIT).


Personal life

Roth is married and has three children. In 2009, he took an early retirement.


References

1946 births Chairmen of the Board of Swiss National Bank Living people Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni Businesspeople from Geneva {{Switzerland-business-bio-stub