After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in 1975, he attended MIT's Sloan School of Management from where he received a Master’s degree in 1978. He then joined Intersec Research, a New York based pension and asset management consulting firm.

Jacques de Saussure is also Vice-Chairman of the Swiss Exchange (SWX) and a Board member of its subsidiaries Eurex and virt-x.

See also: 12:15 pm Lunch