Karin Schwab

Dr. Karin Schwab is an international business executive with over 20 years of experience across technology, digitalization, e-commerce, marketplaces, and digitalization. She has a strong track record in strategic leadership, execution, business centered legal advice, stakeholder alignment, process re-engineering and improvement, and large-scale transformation.

Karin is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for eBay’s global product, technology and growth organizations, holding oversight for legal work related to eBay’s global websites as well as its payments and advertising businesses. Prior to that she served as executive for eBay in the Americas and Europe.

She also serves on the Nomination Committee of the Adevinta Board and is a member of the International Advisory Board of ZHAW School of Management and Law, Zürich, Switzerland.

Karin is born and raised in the bilingual town of Fribourg, Switzerland, and is a Swiss and US citizen. Karin’s pedigreed academic background includes a Ph.D. in E-Commerce from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and a Master of Laws from the University of London, UK specializing in Computer and Communications Law. She is admitted to the bar in California, USA.