Foundation Board – Hasler Stiftung

The Foundation is represented by a number of eminent people who fulfil the mission of the Foundation in accordance with the will of the founder. The Foundation Board is free of any political or commercial interests and is regulated solely by the Deed of Foundation. The members of the Foundation Board are co-opted.

	Heinz Karrer, President Chairman of the Investment Committee Member of the Appropriations Panel Heinz Karrer is former President of economiesuisse.
	Prof. Dr. Lothar Thiele, Vice-President Chairman of the Scientific Committee Member of the Appropriations Panel Lothar Thiele has been a full professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich since 1994.
	Prof. Dr. Ron Appel Member of the Scientific Committee Ron Appel is the co-founder and former Executive Director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
	Prof. Dr. Crispino Bergamaschi Member of the Scientific Committee Crispino Bergamaschi has been President of the Board of Directors at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland since January 2011.
	Dr. Bernhard Eschermann Member of the Investment Committee and of the Scientific Committee Chairman of the Appropriations Panel Bernhard Eschermann, after a number of other management positions at ABB, since 2013 is Head of Technology for ABB’s Process Automation Division.
	Prof. Dr. Rolf Ingold Member of the Scientific Committee Rolf Ingold was a full professor of computer science at the University of Freiburg from 1997 to 2026.
	Florence Schnydrig Member of the Investment Committee and of the Appropriations Panel Florence Schnydrig is a member of the executive committee and responsible for the private banking business at the Cantonal Bank of Zurich
	Dr. Dorothea Wiesmann Member of the Scientific Committee Dorothea Wiesmann is Software Engineering Director at Google Switzerland
	Prof. Abraham Bernstein, Ph.D Member of the Scientific Committee Abraham Bernstein is a professor of computer science at the University of Zurich and director of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) (Photo: Ethan Oelman)