The members were initially elected to the Board of Directors of Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, the Group’s former parent company; all members were subsequently elected to the Board of Directors of the Group’s new holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, on 17 February 2011 with the exception of the following members who were elected to the Board of Directors of Swiss Re Ltd as follows; Renato Fassbind was elected on 15 April 2011, C. Robert Henrikson was elected on 13 April 2012 and Mary Francis was elected on 10 April 2013.

The members of the Board of Directors were elected for a term of office which would have ended as follows: Mathis Cabiallavetta, Renato Fassbind, Raymund Breu, Raymond K.F. Ch’ien, Rajna Gibson Brandon, Hans Ulrich Maerki in 2014; Jakob Baer, John R. Coomber and C. Robert Henrikson in 2015; and Walter B. Kielholz, Mary Francis, Malcolm D. Knight, Carlos E. Represas and Jean-Pierre Roth in 2016. The “Ordinance Against Excessive Compensation at Public Corporations” entered into effect on 1 January 2014. It provides that the shareholders at the AGM must elect members of the Board of Directors individually for one-year terms, beginning at the AGM 2014. The current terms of all members of the Board of Directors therefore end at the AGM 2014.