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Franco Colombo is the CFO of the Italian Pharma Division of Novartis and has Country responsibility for Treasury and Taxes. In his role he is responsible for Financial Reporting and Accounting, Business Planning and Analysis, Treasury & Taxes, Procurement, IT, Commercial Operations. He has an extensive Finance background having held positions spanning from accounting and reporting, to business analysis and strategic plan, to Country/Regional/Global CFO of Businesses of different size in different industries (Chemicals, Consumer Products, Pharma). Grown-up in Italy, where he started with Ciba in 1984, Franco spent thirteen years of his career in the native country and eleven years abroad (New York, California, UK, Georgia-US, Switzerland). He has a BS on Economics from the Catholic University of Milan and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California in Los Angeles. Franco speaks Italian, English and some French.

Daniel M. Hofmann entra in Zurich Financial Services (Zurich) in qualità di Group Chief Economist nel 2001 dopo una lunga e significativa carriera come giornalista finanziario per il quotidiano svizzero Neue Zürcher Zeitung, per il quale è stato per nove anni corri-spondente dalla Casa Bianca (dal 1985 al 1994). E’ docente di affari monetari internazionali alla Zurich Management School. Ha pubblica-to articoli in riviste internazionali e ha scritto saggi per numerosi libri. E’ membro dell’American Economic Association, della National Association of Business Economists e della Conference Board’s European Council of Economists, di cui è stato presidente dal 2004 al 2006. Ha conseguito la laurea in economia sia presso l’Università di Zurigo in Svizzera sia pres-so la Brown University a Providence, Rhode Island (USA).