Ann METTLER

Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Lisbon Council, an advocacy group and policy network committed to raising European competitiveness, encouraging economic growth, promoting structural reform, creating jobs and working towards a better, more prosperous future. Incorporated in Belgium as an independent, non-profit and non-partisan association, the Lisbon Council is among Europe’s most authoritative and thoughtful voices on economic reform and social renewal. 

Ms. Mettler has been widely quoted in the international media and has contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, FT Deutschland and Handelsblatt. She is also a regular commentator on CNBC Europe, and has addressed audiences at the Kitzbuehel Leadership Forum, the World Economic Forum, Economist Conferences, Rockefeller University, Rheingauer Impulse, and other high-level events.

From 2000-2003, Ms. Mettler worked at the World Economic Forum, where she served as Director for Europe. Prior to this appointment, she was responsible for the World Economic Forum’s activities in the United States and Canada. During her tenure, Ms. Mettler handled relations at the highest level with governments of over twenty-five countries, including six members of the G7. She was in charge of the conceptualization, organization and execution of economic summits in Europe and the United States, and provided content input and regional expertise to four World Economic Forum Annual Meetings in Davos.

From 1997-2000, Ms. Mettler held positions on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States Senate, a strategic communications firm in Washington, DC and the Foreign Policy Division of the European Commission, Brussels.

A dual citizen of Germany and Sweden, Ms. Mettler has lived and worked in Greece, the United States, Switzerland and Belgium. She holds two Masters degrees and graduated with distinction from the University of New Mexico, USA, and the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn, Germany.