David Zollinger completed his undergraduate studies in Sinology and Japanese Studies in 1986 and his law degree at the University of Zurich in 1992. He then worked for law enforcement of the Canton of Zurich for 15 years, including seven years as head of the cantonal public prosecutor's office responsible for money laundering and international legal assistance. From 2007 to 2012, he headed the Eastern Europe division of a private bank as a member of the management board. Since 2013, he has worked as a management consultant and since 2016 as an independent lawyer specialising in commercial law and commercial criminal law.
David Zollinger was a member of the supervisory authority for the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland from 2011-2016. From 2001 to 2022, he taught the Master's course "Economic Crime Investigation" at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
He regularly publishes on specialised topics, for example in 2003 and 2009 in the commentary on the Anti-Money Laundering Act, in 2018 in the St. Gallen Handbook on Swiss Financial Market Law and in 2020 in the anthology "Kultur Kunst Recht".