Michèle is Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of St. Gallen and Adjunct Professor of ‘Organizational Control and Governance’. She also serves as an independent board member of various companies.

Previously, she was Visiting Professor for ‘Banking and Insurance’ at the School of Management at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Visiting Professor at WU Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Accounting at the University of Zürich and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Business Strategy and Policy at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, P.R. China. Moreover, she worked in the assurance and advisor business services with Ernst & Young Ltd., in banking and finance as well as in the hotel industry.

Michèle holds a Ph.D. in Management, summa cum laude, and a M.A. in Risk Management and Financial Services from the University of St. Gallen.

She speaks German, English, French, and Italian fluently and has basic knowledge in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.