What is the highest decision-making body of the Swiss National Bank called?

The highest decision-making body of the Swiss National Bank is called the Governing Board.

The Governing Board is the Swiss National Bank’s supreme executive and management body. It consists of three members, who decide monetary policy, define the strategy for currency-market operations, and oversee the bank’s investment and asset-management policies.

The Swiss National Bank, or SNB, was founded in 1907 and is Switzerland’s central bank. Its constitutional and statutory mandate is to pursue a monetary policy serving the interests of the country as a whole. In practice, its central objective is price stability while taking economic developments into account.

The Governing Board should not be confused with the Bank Council. The Bank Council supervises and controls the SNB’s business activities, while the three-member Governing Board makes the core monetary-policy decisions. This distinction is especially important because many central banks use larger committees with different names.