UBS Group adds Bill Dudley and Jeanette Wong to its Board of Directors

– SWITZERLAND, Zurich –  UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS | SWX: UBSN), today announced the re-election of the Chairman and the members of the Board of Directors by its Shareholders, as well as the election of William C. Dudley and Jeanette Wong as new members of the Board.

About Bill Dudley

Mr. Dudley is a senior research scholar at the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. He became chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NY Fed) in 2009, a position he held until 2018. In that capacity, he served as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Previously, Mr. Dudley served as executive vice president of the Markets Group at the NY Fed and Head of the Markets Group from 2007 to 2009. Prior to the NY Fed, Mr. Dudley joined Goldman Sachs in 1986 and held several senior management positions. He was a partner and managing director and for a decade the chief US economist. In 2012, Mr. Dudley was appointed the chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Prior to that, he served as chairman of the former Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems of the BIS from 2009 to 2012. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the BIS from 2009 to 2018. He has a bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida and received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982.

About Jeanette Wong

Jeanette Wong was group executive responsible for the Institutional Banking business at the Singapore-based DBS Group from 2008 to March 2019, encompassing Corporate Banking, Global Transaction Services, Strategic Advisory, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Previously, she served as the chief financial officer of the DBS Group between 2003 and 2008. Ms. Wong has spent more than 30 years working in different senior management roles within the financial industry in Singapore. She started her career in 1982 with positions at Banque Paribas and Citibank, before helping to build up JP Morgan’s Asia and emerging markets business over a sixteen-year career with the firm. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the National University of Singapore.

She is also a Board member of Essilor International/EssilorLuxottica, Jurong Town Corporation, PSA International, FFMC Holdings Pte. Ltd., and Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd.

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