Dr. Günther Gose
Chairman

1944, DE, Herrliberg
Dr. rer. nat., Chairman
(Non-Executive Member since 7 February 2000, initially as Vice-Chairman and from 4 December 2001 as Chairman, appointed until the 2009 Annual General Meeting).

Education: Degree in mathematics from Munich University, assistant at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics at the Technical University at Braunschweig until 1976, doctoral thesis on numerical mathematics in 1974.

Professional activity: From 1976 to 1990 various positions at Allianz Group (until 1983 assignments in product development and accounting at Allianz Life, until 1987 Member of the Executive Board of Allianz Life, until 1990 Chief Executive Officer of the Nordrhein-Westfalen branch of Allianz). From 1990 Member of the Zurich Group Executive Board, until 1994 responsible for life insurance, from 1994 also responsible for the Northern and Eastern Europe region, Chief Financial Officer for the Group from 1998 until retirement mid-2002.

Following his retirement from the Zurich Group mid-2002, Mr. Gose has acted independently, rather than under delegated authority, in performing his function as a Member of the Board of Directors for PSP Swiss Property Ltd and its subsidiaries mentioned in the following paragraph.

In addition to his mandate at PSP Swiss Property Ltd, Mr. Gose did not hold, as at 31 December 2007, other directorships which are subject to disclosure. The mandates held at the PSP subsidiaries PSP Real Estate Ltd, PSP Management Ltd, PSP Properties Ltd as well as PSP Group Services Ltd ceased in March 2007.