Simone Westerfeld

Simone Westerfeld (* 1975 ) is a German - Swiss bank manager and professor for banking and finance at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). She was interim managing director ( CEO ) and group manager of Basler Kantonalbank .

Origin and career

Westerfeld entered the banking business in 1994 with an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank , where she worked as a customer advisor and analyst. She completed her studies in 1996 at the HSG in St. Gallen and at the School of Economics in Stockholm . During her studies, Westerfeld worked for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York and Credit Suisse before graduating in 2000. In the same year she moved to UBS . At the same time she was promoted to director at UBS, she received her doctorate from the HSG.

From 2006 she was an assistant professor. Westerfeld completed her habilitation thesis in 2010 at the age of 35. She then taught as a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Simone Westerfeld has been a member of the management and group management of Basler Kantonalbank and adjunct professor at the HSG since 2015 .

Publications

• All of Simone Westerfeld's publications are available on the HSG's Alexandria research platform.

Web links

• Simone Westerfeld on the Alexandria research platform at the University of St. Gallen
• Philipp Felber: A steep career: The new BKB boss is a “tough cookie with a heart”. In: bz Basel . September 30, 2018
• Very healthy and successful. Basler Kantonalbank (video on the 2018 half-year results)
• Deloitte Switzerland: “The banking market of the future” - Interview with Prof. Simone Westerfeld. on YouTube , April 2018 (interview).
• Basler Kantonalbank places a professor at the side of the CEO. In: Finews . January 31, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directory of persons. Prof. Dr. Simone Westerfeld. University of St. Gallen , accessed on November 15, 2018 . 
2. ^ Simone Westerfeld. Publications. Alexandria research platform of the University of St. Gallen.