Professional career

Since May 2021
Director General Payments and Settlement Systems

2018 - 2021
Director General Economic Education at the Deutsche Bundesbank

2013 – 2018
Head of the Office for Cross-Sectional Tasks and Speeches in the Directorate General Economics at the Deutsche Bundesbank

2009 – 2013
Head of the Secretariat for European Affairs at the Deutsche Bundesbank

2009
Head of the project group Financial Market Stabilisation, Directorate-General Economic and Fiscal Policy, Federal Chancellery

1998 – 2009
Worked in the Economics, Monetary Policy and Monetary Analysis Department at the Deutsche Bundesbank

1993 – 1998
Research assistant to the Chair for Monetary Policy and International Economics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
 

Education

1993 – 1999
Awarded a PhD (Dr rer pol) by Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg

1988 – 1992
Studied economics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg

1985 – 1988
Trained as a bank clerk, Bonn