Kaspar Villiger to rejoin NZZ Board of Directors

Publishers Former Federal Councilor Kaspar Villiger is to become a member of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.The BoD of the Zurich publishing house is proposing him for election at the Annual General Meeting on April 24. Villiger was already a member of the board in 1988 and 1989, before he was elected to the Federal Council. Villiger has also already been nominated for the Board of Directors of the reinsurer Swiss Re.