Thomas Jordan

Thomas Jakob Ulrich Jordan (; born 28 January 1963 ) is a Swiss economist and central banker. He is the former chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank, former chairman of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group, a former member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and a former member of the steering committee of the Financial Stability Board.

Jordan was born on 28 January 1963 in the city of Biel/Bienne. He studied economics and business studies at the University of Bern, completing his degree in 1989 and his doctorate in 1993. He wrote a post-doctoral thesis on the subject of European Monetary Union and predicted the sovereign debt crisis and also the bank failures that eventually transpired during three years he spent as a researcher at Harvard University in the United States. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Bern in 1998 and an honorary professor in 2003. His successor Martin Schlegel assumed the position on 1 October 2024.

After leaving his position as SNB Chairman, he became a member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance in 2025 and of Nestlé in 2026.

Jordan is married and has two sons.