Peter Terwiesch is President Process Automation and member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB since January 2015. He joined ABB in 1994 and, among other roles, was head of ABB’s Central Europe region from 2011 to 2014 and ABB’s Chief Technology Officer from 2005 to 2011.

Peter Terwiesch currently serves on the Board of Directors of Hilti Group. From 2006 to 2012, he served as a member of BP plc’s Technology Advisory Council, and from 2010 to 2022 he served on the Board of Directors of Metall Zug AG. In 2013, he was nominated as Fellow by IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control.

He studied electrical engineering in Karlsruhe (Germany) and Strasbourg (France), holds a PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School‘s General Manager Program (US). He was born in 1966 and is a Swiss and German citizen.