Returning to work

Petra Arends-Paltzer

Founder, Rolemodel Rebels

Petra studied law and worked internationally as a lawyer and banker for more than 30 years, including at Citibank, UBS and J.P. Morgan. During the financial crisis she lost her job at around 50 and started over: she co-founded swisslegal.tech, set up the Davos Digital Forum and was named Woman of Legal Tech. In 2021 she founded Rolemodel Rebels, a network for women in leadership. In her fifties she discovered TikTok and now shows women over 45 how to build their digital skills. Her topic: which digital skills count when you return to work, and how to build them.