Profile of Hannes Lubich

Dr. Hannes Lubich has worked in the areas of operating systems, network technologies, computer-supported cooperative work, security management and IT architecture for 20 years. For 10 years he was a researcher and senior lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and was responsible for creating and running the Swiss Academic and Research Network (SWITCH), as well as the Swiss Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). For 7 years he was the Chief IT Security Officer (CISO) of Julius Baer Group, a large, Swiss-based international private bank. For 4 years he worked for CA Inc. as a Principal Consultant and IT Security Strategist for the region Central Europe. From mid 2007 to January 2009, he was the E*MEA Head of the Business Continuity, Security and Governance (BCSG) Practice of British Telecom Global Services.

Since April 2009, he is a professor of computer science, specialising in ICT System and Service Management and works in the mobile and distributed systems lab of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Brugg-Windisch.

He is an alumnus of IMD in Lausanne and the Wharton School of Management in Philadelphia, and continues to lecture part-time at ETH Zurich. Besides that, he acts as an advisor/consultant, and sits on the board of Ad Vantis Innovation AG.

For further information, see also www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~lubichh/