Dr Christoph Franz
Chairman
Member of Board of Directors
Roche
Switzerland
Biography
Graduate in Industrial Engineering (Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing.), Doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences (Dr. rer. pol.) Christoph Franz has been a member of Roche Board of Directors since 2011 and Chairman since 2014. A trained industrial engineer, Franz forged a career as CEO of the airlines Swiss and Lufthansa. He is regarded as an unconventional thinker who is not afraid to ask questions that (as he himself says) could turn out to be stupid: “I want to break old patterns of thinking that prevent people from exploring new avenues.”
Research Interest
Industrial engineering
