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Meet Christel

Christel Rendu de Lint PhD

Co-CEO & Head Investments

25 years investment experience

4 years with Vontobel

Zurich

Bank Vontobel AG

Gotthardstrasse 43

CH-8022 Zurich

Switzerland

Christel Rendu de Lint joined Vontobel in May 2021. She is Co-CEO and Head of Investments.

Prior to joining Vontobel, she was Head of Fixed Income at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) from 2007. Before that, she was a Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Pictet. She started her career in the financial sector in 2000 at Morgan Stanley in London as a Senior Economist in Sell-Side Equity Research. Her previous industry experience includes working on various research projects for the International Monetary Fund, the UK Treasury, and the Swiss National Bank, among others.

Christel holds a PhD in Economics from London Business School, and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of St Gallen.

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