Dr. Thomas Schoenholzer

Group General Counsel, The Swiss Post Ltd.
Nationality: Switzerland
Course: Thriving Amid CSRD and CSDDD: Strategies for Compliance and Sustainability

An internationally experienced and inspirational general counsel with a track-record of leadership and transformation initiatives including legal, compliance, investigations, risk management and insurance units for multi bio listed and high-profile companies.

Strengths in business orientation, anticipation, stakeholder management and crisis response. Technical expertise encompasses corporate matters/litigation, international sanctions/export controls/tariffs, ESG and AI.

Before joining the Swiss Post Ltd., Thomas was a member of the extended executive committee and the secretary to the board of directors of Sulzer Ltd with global responsibilities for legal, compliance, risk management, insurance and security.

After his studies of laws and economics (incl. the Swiss bar exam, an MBA degree and a doctoral thesis on international corporate and finance markets laws at the interface to IT), Thomas worked for 2 law firms in Zurich and in London respectively (Baker & McKenzie, Simmons & Simmons and 3 Verulam chambers amongst others).

Afterwards he spent 10 years in the international IT and telecoms sector before joining a high tech and listed company as their general counsel and secretary to the board.

Thomas is a lecturer at the Europa Institute of Zurich University and at the Institute for International Business Law of Fribourg University.

He regularly speaks on international conferences - lately in Zurich on AI & hiring, in London on high stakes/crisis management and the role of the GC, and in Berlin on ESG regulations and their outlook.

Thomas publishes on corporate matters, recently on international ESG developments.