Barbara Levi assumes role as UBS’s new group general counsel
Barbara Levi assumes her new role as UBS group general counsel and member of the group executive board, effective 1st November 2021. She succeeds Markus Diethelm, who has decided to step down from his current role.
The initial appointment announcement was made by UBS on April 27th 2021.
“I’m looking forward to having Barbara join UBS later this year. With more than 25 years of legal and compliance experience across different industries and geographies, she is ideally suited to lead our General Counsel function into the future.”, said UBS Group chief executive officer Ralph Hamers.
Levi joins UBS from Rio Tinto Group where she has served as chief legal officer & external affairs as well as group general counsel and member of the executive committee since January 2020. Prior to that, she worked at Novartis Group in various senior management roles, including group legal head, m&a and strategic transactions, global legal head & general counsel of Sandoz, the Novartis generics and biosimilars division and global legal head, product strategy & commercialization, for the Novartis Pharma division. Before joining Novartis, Levi worked practiced law in private practice in New York and Milan.
