Andreas Planta
Board of Directors
Novartis
NOVARITIS
Australia
Biography
Andreas Planta has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2006. He qualifies as an independent Non-Executive Director. He serves as Chairman of the Risk Committee. He is a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Governance, Nomination and Corporate Responsibilities Committee. Planta is chairman of the Schweizerische NationalVersicherungs-Gesellschaft AG and a board member of Helvetia Holding AG, both in Switzerland. He also is a board member of various Swiss subsidiaries of foreign companies and other nonlisted Swiss companies. Additionally, he is chairman of the regulatory board of the SIX Swiss Exchange AG, and former chairman of the Geneva Association of Business Law. Andreas von Planta holds lic. iur. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law in the United States. He passed his bar examinations in Basel in 1982. Since 1983 he has lived in Geneva and worked for the law firm Lenz & Staehelin, where he became a partner in 1988. His areas of specialization include corporate law, corporate governance, corporate finance, company reorganizations, and mergers and acquisitions.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics
