About

Yannick Hausmann oversees the Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs functions across the Zurich Group with around 1,100 employees worldwide. Having been in his role since 2009, Yannick became involved with strategic business planning after being promoted to the Group Executive Committee in July 2012. In this role he has consistently and successfully advised the Group on various complex major transactions and reorganisations to transform it into an even leaner and more effective operation. Under Yannick’s supervision, the Group Public Affairs department was also reorganised; optimising the Group’s capabilities to manage multinational regulatory and public policy matters including important topics like corporate governance, international capital standards and systemic risk designation.In terms of leadership, Yannick cites one of his outstanding achievements as the reorganisation of Group Legal and Compliance functions into business-enablers without compromising their independence as governance or assurance functions respectively. Placing emphasis on business-oriented thinking, cost transparency and efficiency, Yannick oversees these functions providing high quality legal advice for the complex transactions that working for a multinational Group entails. Another special focus of Yannick is within corporate governance, an area in which he is recognised as a thought leader often speaking and writing publications in highly reputable law journals across the world. His dedication in this area led to him establishing a special forum for all of the Group’s independent board directors, facilitating mutual exchange and an open and constructive dialogue between the top management and board representatives. Yannick was also instrumental in the Zurich Group becoming a founding member of the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC), a body that organises a series of annual world-class conferences on corporate governance research.Away from his Group General Counsel role, Yannick has been a member of the legal committees of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce and of economiesuisse, the Swiss Business Federation. In keeping with his personal interests away from Zurich, he joined the board of trustees of the foundation that supports the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in 2011. In May 2013 he became a member of the board of the Europe Institute of the University of Zurich and in April 2015, he was appointed to serve as an adviser to The American Law Institute regarding the project ‘Principles of the law, Compliance, Enforcement, and Risk Management for Corporations’.