Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Credit Suisse AG

Ms. Gadsden-Williams provides strategic direction, thought leadership and champions the development of an inclusive environment by integrating diversity practice into all aspects of the business on a global scale. Michelle is a member of the Talent, Branding and Communications Management Committee at Credit Suisse.

Michelle is a seasoned Diversity Practitioner with more than 20 years of experience working in the pharmaceutical industry before transitioning to Financial Services.

Gadsden-Williams was recently appointed as a member of the Global Advisory Council on Values for the World Economic Forum. She is a board Member of the Jackie Robinson Foundation and the SLE Lupus Foundation in New York City and an Executive Committee Member of the Women’s Leadership Board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Gadsden-Williams has a B.S. in Marketing and a B.A. in Communications from Kean College and an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics (with honors) from the University of Pennsylvania.