Karl Schweizer

Managing director, art and numismatics services, UBS

In the number-crunching world of financial services, an appreciation of art is rarely useful. This is not the case, though, in the Basle office of UBS, where it is essential in the art banking and numismatics department.

The team advises on both banking and art, and UBS has been active in it for more than 30 years. In 1997, Karl Schweizer became head of the department with a brief to restructure it.

Schweizer started out as a lawyer, writing a doctoral thesis on investment banking and capital markets.

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