Philipp Hildebrand is vice chairman of BlackRock and a member of the firm's Global Executive Committee. He also oversees the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) and BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI). Philipp joined BlackRock in 2012. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). Previously, Philipp was chief investment officer of a Swiss private bank and a partner at Moore Capital Management in London. Philipp is a trustee of the British Museum, a member of the Group of Thirty and an honorary fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He sits on the International Advisory Board of Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government and the International Leadership Council for Europe for the University of Toronto. He is a Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Mérite (France). Philipp earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto, a M.A. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.