born 1969 in Lemgo, Germany

Further functions

• Alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements
• Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures of the Bank for International Settlements (Board of Directors)
• Member of the Eurosystem’s High Level Task Force on Central Bank Digital Currency
• Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks (BBUG), Baden-Baden (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• Institut für Bank- und Finanzgeschichte e. V., Frankfurt/Main (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• Bürgerverein Demokratieort Paulskirche e. V., Frankfurt/Main (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
• Bündnis Ökonomische Bildung e. V., Frankfurt/Main (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt/Main (Member of the Board of Trustees)
• European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh) e. V., Frankfurt/Main (Member of the Board of Patrons)
• SCION Association (non-profit organisation driving transformation of Internet structure),  Lucerne (Member of the Advisory Board)
• Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Nyon, Switzerland (Member of the Club Financial Control Body Appeals Chamber)
   

Professional career

Since 1 September 2018
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

2009 – 2018
Member of the European Parliament (CDU), serving as the EPP Group’s coordinator on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs since 2014 

2004 – 2009
Head of department for institutional clients at Commerzbank AG in Hanover, “Prokura” holder

2002 – 2004
Corporate customer advisor at Commerzbank AG in Hanover

2001 – 2002
Desk officer at the Commerzbank AG Liaison Office to the European Union in Brussels
 

Education

2000 – 2001
Traineeship in corporate banking at Commerzbank AG in Hanover and Frankfurt am Main

1991 – 2000
Studied law and political science at the University of Göttingen

1989 – 1991
Trained as a bank clerk at Commerzbank AG in Hanover