Primary Job Title Group General Counsel Primary Organization 
Zurich Insurance Group
Location Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Yannick Hausmann started his career in 1995 at a law firm in Basel. From 1998 to 2000, he was associate in the tax and legal department of Arthur Andersen AG and Andersen Legal in Zurich. He was a member of the Legal and Compliance Group of the Swiss Insurance Association for several years. Mr. Hausmann joined the Zurich Corporate Center Litigation
and Investigation Team in 2000. He has held his current position since December 2009 and was promoted to be a member of the Group Executive Committee in July 2012. He oversees the Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs functions worldwide across the Zurich Group, as well as the Board Secretariat. Mr. Hausmann has served on the Board of Directors of Farmers Group, Inc. since February 2011. In July 2013, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zürich Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft (Deutschland) as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance plc (Ireland).
Since 2009, Mr. Hausmann has been a member of the legal committee of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. In 2011, he joined the board of trustees of the foundation supporting the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich. In May 2013, Mr. Hausmann became a member of the board of the Europe Institute of the University of Zurich. In 2015, he was appointed as an adviser to The American Law Institute. He also joined the Insurance Regulatory Committee of the Institute of International Finance as well as the executive board of economiesuisse.
Mr. Hausmann received a doctorate in law from the University of Basel in 1995 and was admitted to the bar in Switzerland (Canton of Basel) in 1997. He earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the New York University School of Law in 2003 and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2012.
