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Laura Hemrika

Chief Executive OfficerJulius Baer Foundation

Biography

Laura Hemrika is the CEO of the Julius Baer Foundation, the non-profit grant foundation of the Julius Baer Group founded in 1965. Today, its work focuses on reducing wealth inequality.

Prior to Julius Baer, Laura was Managing Director of the Credit Suisse Foundation and Global Head of Corporate Citizenship & Foundations at Credit Suisse, responsible for all of the bank’s global philanthropic commitments, partnerships and employee engagement, including collaboration on impact investing product development and client advisory, as well as multiple sustainability, philanthropy, CSR and diversity topics. In this role she co-founded a number of public private partnerships including the SDG Impact Finance Initiative. She also served as Trustee of the Credit Suisse APAC Foundation.
Laura has an MBA from London Business School and is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
She serves on the boards of several organizations and is the Chairwoman of the Swiss Capacity Building Facility.