Mr Hagen Schweinitz

Hagen Schweinitz is Chairman of Charvet & Cie., an international board advisory firm specialising in board appointments, board effectiveness and corporate governance. Charvet & Cie. advises shareholders, supervisory boards and nomination committees on board composition and succession, the appointment of Non-Executive Directors and senior executives, board evaluations, governance structures and CEO succession.

Before founding Charvet & Cie., he led the global board and governance advisory practice of Eric Salmon & Partners and was a Senior Partner at the largest international executive search and leadership advisory firm. He started his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and has published whitepapers on boards and Blockchain, non-executive directors in technology companies, and corporate governance in Iran. He is an Industry Advisor in Boards and Governance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Hagen serves on the board of the Armenian Institute of Directors (AIOD) in Yerevan, Armenia, and is the Chair of the Advisory Board of European Women on Boards (EWOB) in Brussels and a member of the Advisory Board of Women on Boards Albania. He also serves as President of the regional Oxford Business Alumni chapter. Previously, he was a member of the board of INSEAD Directors Network (IDN) and moderated the European Board Diploma program at ecoDA in Brussels.

Hagen was educated at the University of Oxford, where he earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from Saïd Business School and took part in the High Performance Leadership Program (HPLP); and at INSEAD, where he completed the International Directors Program (IDP-C) and holds the Advanced Certificate in Corporate Governance.

He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and a member of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs in London.

He speaks English, German, and Farsi.