Credit Suisse has hired a new manager responsible for diversity and inclusion matters. She will also use modern technology to help stamp out discrimination at Switzerland’s second-largest bank.
Patsy Sciutto Doerr will start at the end of June in her new position as global head of diversity and inclusion, Credit Suisse told its staff in a letter on Monday. The U.S. citizen joins Credit Suisse from Thomson Reuters, the global media company, where she was in charge of corporate responsibility, sustainability and inclusion.
Doerr will help to make sure that the Zurich-based bank reaches its internal diversity targets, said Antoinette Poschung, global head of human resources, in the letter. One of the targets of the bank is to boost the number of female managers in the U.K. to 35 percent by 2020.
Returning to the Swiss Bank
In a bid to stamp out discriminatory behavior in the hiring process, in promotions and performance management, Doerr will use data available at the bank. The challenges she will help address vary across the businesses and regions.
Doerr will report to Poschung and Siegfried Hoenle, global head of recruitment, development and diversity. To start with, the manager will work in the New York offices, before moving to Zurich by the end of 2019.
She has a past at Credit Suisse, working at the bank from 2001 through 2011. She was in charge of talent development Asia Pacific in Hong Kong before joining Thomson Reuters in New York.
