--- id: 483 title: "Swiss Re Wins Award for Best Corporate Governance, Switzerland, 2013" award_year: 2013 published: 2013-05-16 11:36:14 published_gmt: 2013-05-16 11:36:14 author: "CFI.co Editorial" url: "https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2013/swiss-re-wins-award-for-best-corporate-governance-switzerland-2013/" categories: ["Best Practice", "Corporate Governance", "Europe"] content_class: award_rationale independence_status: independent_editorial sponsor_disclosure: none editorial_lens: constructive_positive_lens historical_status: current_at_publication correction_status: none archive_policy: no_delete provenance_layer: github_versioned wayback_status: archived wayback_first_snapshot: 20260523041635 wayback_snapshot_url: "http://web.archive.org/web/20260523041635/https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2013/swiss-re-wins-award-for-best-corporate-governance-switzerland-2013/" license: CFI-OAAL-1.0 content_sha256: b5aaf4b219c17003af5b15eae88df96c0f6a96f02967d07dfde9a6ffbf861c79 canonical: 483-swiss-re-wins-award-for-best-corporate-governance-switzerland-2013.json --- # Swiss Re Wins Award for Best Corporate Governance, Switzerland, 2013 > Verbatim archived copy. Canonical machine record: `483-swiss-re-wins-award-for-best-corporate-governance-switzerland-2013.json`.

Swiss REThere are few industries where stakeholders have more to lose than in reinsurance and accordingly the strength of corporate governance is critical.

The panel were impressed in particular by the continual assessment and development of Swiss RE’s corporate governance standards. Under Walter B Kielholz’s leadership, the Chairman’s and Governance committee has helped ensure that Swiss RE continues as a stable and innovative player in the critically important reinsurance market - and this was borne out in the Company’s 2012 results.