Michèle F. Sutter-Rüdisser is Director of the Institute of Public Finance, Fiscal Law and Law & Economics (IFF-HSG) as well as Adjunct Professor of Organizational Control and Governance at the University of St. Gallen. She is also long-term Visiting Guest Professor for Governance for Banking and Insurance at the School of Management at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan. Moreover, she serves as an independent board member at Erste Group Bank AG (Vienna), Helsana AG (Dübendorf, Zürich), and Graubündner Kantonalbank (Chur).

Before, she was a Visiting Professor at WU Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Accounting and Control at the University of Zurich, and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Business Strategy and Policy at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, P.R. China. She has work experience in the fields of assurance and advisory business services with Ernst & Young Ltd., in banking and finance, as well as in the hotel industry.

She holds a Ph.D. in Management, summa cum laude, and an M.A. in Risk Management and Financial Services from the University of St. Gallen. Her major research interests are in the area of corporate governance, board governance, and organizational control.

Prof. Sutter-Rüdisser speaks German, English, French, and Italian fluently and has basic knowledge in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.