Andreas Schweizer

Personal profile

Management role

Programme Director, MAS Corporate Finance

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Lecturer / Project Manager in Corporate Banking & Sustainable Financing

www.zhaw.ch/ifi

Expertise and research interests

Teaching & Research
- Commercial Banking
- Credit Risk Management
- Corporate Banking
- Corporate restructuring and turn-around management
- Sustainability with focus on credit financing

Educational background

1999 - 2004 Studies in Economics (lic. oec. publ.) at the University of Zurich
2014 - 2015 Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Banking at the Swiss Finance Institute (in Cooperation with Rochester-Bern Executive Programs and the University of Bern)

Professional milestones

Andreas Schweizer is Senior Lecturer and Project Manager in Corporate Banking & Sustainable Financing at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Previously, we was Global Relationship Manager with BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA and responsible for the coverage of large Swiss multinational corporate clients (2015 – 2016). Andreas started his professional career in 2004 with Zürcher Kantonalbank in the Corporate Finance department. He was actively involved in establishing the bank-owned venture fund “Pionier” acting as Senior Investment Manager from 2006 – 2011. After covering SME clients Andreas joined the Key Account Management Team as Client Advisor in 2012 and was a member of the Competence Center for Hospital Financing in parallel.
During his academic education, Andreas gained first professional experience in Portfolio Management with UBS Wealth Management and in Hedge Funds Management with RMF Investment Products.

Projects

• Nachhaltigkeit für die Thurgauer Kantonalbank / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Quantitative decision model for sustainable corporate financing / Project leader / Project ongoing
• KMU Studie - Erhebung von Wissenspotential und Evaluation der Geschäftsverfassung / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Sustainable Lending / Team member / Project completed
• A standardized Sustainable Energy Finance solution for SMEs’ implementation of low-carbon energy solutions / Team member / Project completed
• Development of a quantiative framework for a sustainable financing policy / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Decentralized financing of Fairtrade producers using a blockchain-based solution / Team member / Project completed
• Verbesserung der Finanzierungssituation von mittelständischen Turnaround-Unternehmen / Project leader / Project completed
• Umgang mit Zinsänderungsrisiken bei Unternehmensfinanzierungen / Team member / Project completed
• Blockchain-based model to enhance the financing of fairtrade producers / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Schweizer, Andreas; Hüfner, Annika,

  2021.

  Die Rückzahlung von Covid-19-Krediten : für einige Branchen eine herausfordernde Aufgabe.

  Expert Focus.

  2021(4), pp. 400-407.

• Schweizer, Andreas; Danko, Fabian; Streichenberg, Urs; Hüfner, Annika; Kaya, Orcun; Affolter, Beat; Bittel, Andreas; Camenisch, Jan,

  2022.

  KMU ZH Monitor 2022.

  Zürcher Kantonalbank.

  Available from: https://www.zkb.ch/de/lps/unternehmen/kmu-zh/ergebnisse-kmu-studie-2022.html

• Affolter, Beat; Meyer, Julia; Richter, Thomas; Röthlisberger, Patrick; Schweizer, Andreas,

  2022.

  Nachhaltigkeit in der Kreditfinanzierung.

  Zürich:

  Swiss Sustainable Finance.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25418

• Schweizer, Andreas; Hüfner, Annika; Camenisch, Jan,

  2022.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 7. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/ifi/upload/ZHAW_Coronavirus_KMU_Panel_Nr_7.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Wohl, Georg,

  2021.

  Das vergessene Schweizer Chapter 11.

  Finanz und Wirtschaft.

  2021(22), pp. 22.

  Available from: https://www.fuw.ch/article/das-vergessene-schweizer-chapter-11/

• Schweizer, Andreas; Affolter, Beat; Danko, Fabian; Hüfner, Annika; Kaya, Orcun; Streichenberg, Urs,

  2021.

  KMU ZH Monitor 2021.

  Zürcher Kantonalbank.

  Available from: https://www.zkb.ch/media/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2021.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Steiner, Micha; Hüfner, Annika,

  2021.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 5. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/ifi/upload/ZHAW_Coronavirus_KMU_Panel_Nr_5_Final.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Hüfner, Annika,

  2021.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 6. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/ifi/ZHAW_Coronavirus_KMU_Panel_Nr_6.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas,

  2020.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 1. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/shared/upload/ZHAW_Coronavirus_KMU_Panel_Nr_1_-_Final.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Steiner, Micha,

  2020.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 2. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/shared/upload/Corona_Panel_Nr_2_Final.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Steiner, Micha,

  2020.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 3. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/shared/upload/ZHAW_Coronavirus_KMU_Panel_Nr_3_Final.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Steiner, Micha,

  2020.

  ZHAW Coronavirus-KMU-Panel : 4. Erhebung.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/ifi/ZHAW_Coronavirus_KMU_Panel_Nr_4_final.pdf

• Schweizer, Andreas; Loch, Anne Marie; Graf, Ramona,

  2019.

  Finanzierung in der MEM-Industrie: gut mit Verbesserungspotenzial.

  Die Volkswirtschaft.

  2019(11), pp. 39-41.

  Available from: https://dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/2019/10/schweizer-loch-graf-11-2019/

• Schweizer, Andreas; Graf, Ramona; Loch, Anne,

  2019.

  Untersuchung der Finanzierungsinstrumente und Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten von KMU der Swissmem.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/ifi/zusammenfassung-studie-kmu-finanzierung-mem.pdf

• Fiorito, Alessandra; Schweizer, Andreas,

  2018.

  Vernünftiger als vermutet : das Sparverhalten der Millennials.

  Die Volkswirtschaft.

  92(1-2), pp. 41-43.

  Available from: https://dievolkswirtschaft.ch/content/uploads/2018/12/DV_12-2019_DE_low-1.pdf

• Kundert, Ronald; Schweizer, Andreas,

  2007.

  Mezzanine : ein elegantes Mittelmass.

  Handelszeitung.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3713

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