Curriculum Vitae
Aymo Brunetti has been a full professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Bern since 2012. From 2014 to 2024, he was Managing Director of the Department of Economics. Since 2026, he is in addition President of the University Council of the University of Basel.
He studied economics at the University of Basel where he was awarded a doctorate in 1992 and qualified for teaching as a university professor in 1996. From 1994 to 1995 he spent a year as visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at Harvard University. From 1997 to 1999 Mr Brunetti was visiting professor at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. In this period, he also did consultancy work for the World Bank, the OECD and the International Finance Corporation.
In 1999 Mr Brunetti joined the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs where he soon became member of the board of the newly founded State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and headed its Economic Analysis Division. From 2003 to 2012 he was head of the Economic Policy Directorate at SECO.
After moving to university, he continued to work in economic policy consulting, particularly in the area of financial market regulation, where he has chaired various federal expert groups in recent years. He is also a member of boards of directors and of the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Aymo Brunetti is married and has two adult children.