Joachim Nagel ©Frank Rumpenhorst
© Frank Rumpenhorst

Dr Joachim Nagel President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank

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born 1966 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Responsibilities


Further functions

  • Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
  • Member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board
  • German Governor at the International Monetary Fund
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements
  • Co-chair and member of the BIS Innovation Hub
  • Member of the Plenary and of the Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board
  • Member of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
  • Member of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
  • Member of the Group of Thirty
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori
  • Honorary professor at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Market Economy Foundation
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
  • Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the House of Finance Foundation at Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Member of the Frankfurt Society for Trade, Industry and Science
  • Member of the Monetary Workshop
  • Member of the Ludwig-Erhard Foundation
     

Professional career

Since January 2022
President of the Deutsche Bundesbank

2020 – 2021
Deputy Head of Banking Department at the Bank for International Settlements

2018 – 2020
Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse AG

2017 – 2020
Member of the Executive Board of KfW Group Responsible for KfW Development Bank and KfW subsidiary DEG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KfW IPEX-Bank

2016 – 2017
General Manager, KfW Group

2010 – 2016
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, responsible for the areas of Markets and Information Technology, Banking Supervision (2014) and Controlling, Accounting and Organisation (2015‑16)

2008 – 2016
Head of the Deutsche Bundesbank’s financial crisis management team

2008 – 2010
Director General Markets, Deutsche Bundesbank

2004 – 2008
Head of the Market Analysis and Portfolios Division in the Deutsche Bundesbank’s Directorate General Markets

2003 – 2004
Head of the Market Analyses and Reporting Section of the Deutsche Bundesbank’s Directorate General Markets

2003
Expert on “Policy issues relating to liquidity management, standing facilities and minimum reserves, monetary policy aspects of payment operations” in the Deutsche Bundesbank’s Directorate General Markets in Frankfurt am Main

1999 – 2003
Head of the President’s Office at the Land Central Bank of Bremen, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt (Deutsche Bundesbank Regional Office) in Hanover

1998 – 1999
Research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe’s Institute of Economic Policy and Research

1994 – 1998
Researcher at the University of Karlsruhe’s Institute of Economic Policy and Research

1994 – 1994
Economic and fiscal policy expert for the Executive Committee of the German Social Democratic Party in Bonn

1991 – 1994
Researcher at the University of Karlsruhe’s Institute of Economic Policy and Research
 

Education

1998 – 1998
Research scholarship in Washington, DC as part of an SEW-Eurodrive Foundation research project on the growth and structure of public finances

1997
Awarded a PhD by the University of Karlsruhe’s Department of Economics and Management

1985 – 1991
Degree in economics at the University of Karlsruhe (TH)