Marcel Bigger, born in 1968 to a Chinese-Singaporean mother and a Swiss father, studied both as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the School (GC 1994, MSc 1997) and has been heavily involved with LSE alumni relations for nearly two decades. He was the sole fundraiser of the 5 Year Jubilee Campaign of the Swiss LSE Alumni Association, raising CHF 26'400 for the School, which was recognized by the naming of the "Swiss Alumnae and Alumni Group Study Room" in the School's library. He helped establish the worldwide LSE Alumni Association, serving as its first Vice Chairman from 2005-2007. He initiated the Second Decade Campaign in 2007/2008, which would culminate in the establishment of the LSE Alumnae and Alumni Foundation of Switzerland in 2017. Marcel has been the Secretary General of the Swiss LSE Alumni Association, one of the largest and most active national associations of LSE alumnae and alumni, since 1998. He is Chief Visualization Officer of VisRules LLC and enjoys paleontological field work, astronomy and photography.

Thomas Andreas Maurer is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. His research contributions are in the area of theoretical and empirical asset pricing, international finance and household finance. He regularly serves as a committee member for the annual Financial Intermediation Research Society conference and the Midwest Finance Association conference, and as an academic referee for many major economics and finance journals. At Wash U, Thomas is teaching classes in investment theory and derivative securities to Master students. In 2017, the graduating Master of Finance class has chosen him as the best teacher and he was awarded the Reid teaching prize for the professor "whose enthusiasm and exceptional teaching most inspire, energize, and transform students". Prior to his appointment at Wash U, Thomas earned his LSE MSc in Finance and Economics degree in 2008 and his LSE PhD in Finance degree in 2012. During his PhD studies he has spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Having benefited as a student from scholarships by the LSE, the Economic Social Research Council (UK) and the Swiss National Science Foundation, Thomas is excited to support a new generation of LSE students both as a donor, co-founder and board member of the LSE Alumnae and Alumni Foundation of Switzerland.

Ayisha Piotti started her career in 1996 as an Economist at United Nations Conference for Trade & Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. She then moved to the private sector and has an extensive career in business & strategy development, government & stakeholder relations, and issues management. During her career, Ayisha has built teams and led projects that span diverse geographies, including Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Balkans, Asia and Eastern Europe. Ayisha graduated from the LSE with a BSc in Economics and holds a Masters in Economics from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (USA). She has an Executive Management & Leadership Diploma from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France), and is also an active alumnus of the Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne (Switzerland). Ayisha is a member of the Swiss LSE Alumni Association since its inception in 1998. She is passionate about the role of education & empowerment of youth as a conduit to promoting justice, equality and prosperity in this world.

Anna Stenbeck is a Swede in Switzerland. She did an MSc Economics at the Università Bocconi (1997-2003) followed by an MSc Politics at the School (2003-2004). She started her professional career as a Pensions Actuary with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London before relocating to Switzerland in 2011 to join Swiss Re. Since 2014, Anna is P&B Manager and Reward Consultant EMEA at Swiss Re. She is a native speaker of Swedish, Italian and English.

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Carlo Menotti is a Bern native and completed his studies in management and social sciences at the Berne University of Applied Sciences and the University of Berne before going up to the LSE for a MSc from 2004 to 2005. After serving in various positions with two international industrial groups in Switzerland, he quit his job as Head of Corporate Services in 2011 to write a novel and to engage in a start-up company. In 2016, he moved to the Swiss Federal Railways and is today Senior Project Manager and Strategic Consultant with SBB Cargo.

Nertila Tavanxhi is a Senior Health Economist with UNAIDS Headquarters, in charge of developing strategies and assisting countries to transition from external aid and integrate financing for HIV into financing for Universal Health Coverage. Prior to joining UNAIDS, Nertila worked for the WHO Regional Office for Europe as an adviser on health financing and health systems reform. During her 17 years of experience in global health financing and policy she has interacted and served in different expert groups of major stakeholders in health like the WHO, World Bank, The Global Fund and the Gates Foundation. Nertila completed her MSc Degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, awarded jointly by the LSE and LSHTM in 2003.

Alexander Joeris is the Head of Medical Affairs and Health Economics at AO Clinical Investigation and Documentation, the Institute for Clinical Research and Clinical Research Education at the AO Foundation. The AO Foundation is a medically guided, not-for-profit organization led by an international group of surgeons specializing in the treatment of trauma and disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Founded in 1958 by 13 visionary surgeons, today, AO fosters an extensive network of currently more than 16'000 surgeons, operating room personnel and scientists in over 100 countries. After 12 years of clinical work as a pediatric surgeon at the Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Berne, Switzerland, Alexander joined the AO Foundation to dedicate his work to clinical research and the education of surgeons in clinical research globally. In 2015, he graduated from LSE with an Executive MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management and joined the Swiss LSE Alumni Association in early 2016. Since the beginning of the MSc at LSE, Alexander has a strong professional interest in value-based health care, measuring patient performance and patient outcome. Alexander was born in Germany in 1973, where he also grew up, and qualified as a MD in 2001 in Cologne. Since then, he lives and works in Switzerland, is married and father of three children.

Samuel Stylianou is a native Londoner, born in 1970 in Hammersmith. Graduating from the School with a BSc Economics in 1992, he also studied Mechanical Engineering at UCL. He joined Amstrong International as a Graduate Trainee and led the firm from 2002 as Managing Partner. He is a former partner of CTPartners, advancing talent recruitment in the asset and wealth management sector. In 2016, Samuel founded Leon.Partners, a different kind of executive search firm nurturing long-term partnerships with inspiring leaders that genuinely embrace the importance of building truly diverse cultures within their organizations. Having done his A-levels at the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle in London, he is bilingual in English and French, and enjoys family, travel and, especially, great food.

Vartkess Knadjian is the Chief Executive Officer of Backes & Strauss, the world’s oldest diamond company established in 1789, in London. Under his leadership over the past 30 years, Backes & Strauss has been transformed from a small diamond procurement office into one of the world’s finest Jewelled Timepiece Creators, where highest specification diamonds meet with time in its most precise form. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1955, Vartkess was fully immersed into the art of watchmaking at a young age. His father was a Maître horloger from the Geneva Watchmaking School, appointed as the official watchmaker to the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie, for almost three decades. In his early childhood, Vartkess relocated to the UK to attend Kingswood School, Bath. He subsequently went on to pursue further studies at the LSE, where he graduated with a BSc. (Econ) honours degree in International Relations in 1976.

Angela Randolph is a citizen of the United Kingdom, and is applying shortly to become Swiss with her family. Angela did her Bachelor's degree with high honors at Columbia University in the City of New York and went for her junior year to the LSE. Angela was awarded a Juris Doctor in International Law by Tulane Law School in 1994, where she was a Dean's Fellow, and worked at the Ministry of Justice in Paris as a study grant winner. Angela started her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Boston before moving to the private sector as in-house counsel with U.S. and U.K. companies and an international French company. Since June 2012, she is with an independent law firm headquartered in Zurich specializing in advising and supporting financial services companies in legal and compliance matters. Angela enjoys alpine living, is pleased and proud to be a co-founder of the Foundation, and looks forward to serving the community via her presence on the Board.

Jeannette Wibmer has been a prominent member of the Zurich Bar since 1995. She was awarded a Doctor of Law by the University of Zurich and an LLM in International Business Law by the LSE. From 2001 to 2006, Jeannette was a member of the Constitutional Council of the Canton of Zurich. Since 2009, she is a Partner at Badertscher Attorneys at Law. With the SIX Swiss Exchange, she is registered an an IPO Advisor. Jeannette has been a jury member, coach and expert with the national entrepreneurship competition run by ETH Zurich in addition to serving on the Board of Regiospitex Limmattal.