Luisa Delgado
Member of the Board of Directors
Year of birth and nationality
1966 / Swiss and Portuguese
Professional history and education
Luisa Delgado has 30 years of global executive experience in Luxury, IT & Technology and Banking industries, and is an experienced non-executive Board and Committee Chair and Director in global Luxury and Retail.
She was the CEO of Safilo Group, a Milan-listed global luxury eyewear leader from October 2013 to March 2018 and before that she was a member of the Global Executive Board in SAP AG. Previously, Luisa Delgado spent over 21 years at Procter & Gamble, holding roles of increasing responsibility last as local CEO of Nordic, and before that as regional Chief HR Officer of Western Europe. She also held other local and regional management positions in the UK, Belgium and Portugal, where she started as a trainee.
Luisa Delgado is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Swarovski International Holding AG and holds non-executive mandates in various European companies that are leaders in their respective fields. Furthermore, she was Vice-Chair of Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA, a position she relinquished to join the Board of Directors of EFG International and EFG Bank.
Ms Delgado is active in Private Equity investments as senior advisor and co-investor and is an independent investor and co-entrepreneur. She is also a member of the INSEAD Corporate Governance Council and a sought-after Mentor at Chair Mentors International CMi for start-ups and for first-time Board Directors.
She holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Geneve, a Master of Law (LLM) from King’s College of the University of London, a postgraduate Diploma of European Studies of the University Lusiada of Lisbon, and the FT Non-Executive Director Diploma.
Mandates in other EFG entities
Member of the Board, EFG Bank AG
External mandates
Chair of the Board, Swarovski International Holding AG
Member of the Supervisory Board, Ingka Holding BV (IKEA)
Member of the Board, Telia Company AB
Member of the Board, Fortum
Member of the Board and Chair of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, DIA Group
Member of the Board, José de Mello Group
Member of the Corporate Governance Council, INSEAD
Mentor for CEOs and future CEOs, Chair Mentor International (CMi)
