Karlheinz Walch ©Bert Bostelmann

Karlheinz Walch Director General Banking and Financial Supervision

Professional career

Since January 2021
Director General Banking and Financial Supervision

2012  2020
Deputy Head of Directorate General Banking and Financial Supervision

2003 – 2012
Head of “Coordination of Ongoing Monitoring, Supervisory Strategy and Planning, Prudential and Banking Sector Analyses” Division

2000 – 2003
Personal assistant to the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Head of the Secretariat to the Executive Board 

1990 – 2000
Positions at a number of Bundesbank branches, at the Stuttgart Regional Office and the Central Office in Frankfurt am Main
 

Education

1987 – 1990
Degree in business management from the Bundesbank’s University of Applied Sciences in Hachenburg, Rheinland-Pfalz