Dieter Wemmer

Chief Financial Officer

1957, German Citizen

Dieter Wemmer is a member of the Group Executive Committee and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Zurich Financial Services (Zurich). He joined Zurich Re (Cologne), at that time a German reinsurance subsidiary of Zurich’s German operation Agrippina, in 1986 as pricing actuary life reinsurance. He became Head of Life Reinsurance and Chief Actuary five years later. From 1992 until 1996, he held various positions with Agrippina, joining the management board in 1995, responsible for real estate, controlling, planning and communication. In 1996 he was seconded to the Corporate Center in Zurich as project manager with responsibility for the implementation of IAS/US GAAP. One year later, he became Head of Financial Controlling. From 1999 until May 2003, Mr. Wemmer was Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, with additional responsibility for capital management and General and Life Actuarial from 2002. He became Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Europe General Insurance business division in May 2003. In November 2004, he was appointed CEO Europe General Insurance and became a member of the Group Executive Committee. He assumed his current position in March 2007.

Mr. Wemmer is a member of the board of “economiesuisse”.

Mr. Wemmer holds a PhD and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cologne. From 1983 until 1986, Mr. Wemmer worked in pure mathematics at the universities of Cologne and Oxford.