SNB Chief Economist Lenz to Retire, With Brown Set to Take Over

Swiss National Bank Chief Economist Carlos Lenz is set to retire at the end of the year and will be succeeded by Martin Brown, the current director of the central bank’s academic research institution.

Brown, 55, has been heading the SNB’s Study Center Gerzensee since 2022. He’s an adjunct professor of financial economics at the University of St Gallen, where he previously was a professor of banking, according to his personal website. From 2004 to 2011, he was a mid-level official at the SNB.