Barbara Vanacore, Master Degree in Business Management (M. Sc. in Economics)

Barbara Vanacore achieved a Master Degree in business management at Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, has been research assistant at the Universita della Svizzera italiana and obtained a Master in Compliance Management.

She has accumulated over 15 years’ banking experience, beginning her working activity with a “graduate programme” in UBS and then as an Internal Auditor for Credit Suisse Group, engaged in internal auditing for the Credit Suisse Group in Switzerland and overseas.

She then became a Compliance department manager in various foremost banks within the financial sector, particularly dealing with the fight against money laundering, Know Your Client, cross-border activities, regulatory follow-up, internal control systems and was assigned with the surveillance of branches and foreign subsidiaries of Swiss banks.

She is currently responsible of the Compliance & Risk Management function for managers of collective assets  and portfolio managers and external advisor for compliance issues for banks.

She has been joint-manager for Canton Ticino of the association “Groupement des Compliance Officers de la Suisse Romande et du Tessin” (www.gco-association.ch).

She is currently a lecturer for courses on  “Asset management for banks”, “Compliance in Asst Management ” and “Independence of financial analysis” in Master Compliance in Financial Services (CAS) studies in Vezia and Geneva. 

She is also responsible for the module “Financial and Banking Products and Services” and member of the Executive Committee of the CAS.

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Languages spoken: Italian, English, French and German.