2021 has been a very challenging year in many respects. All the more reason, then, for us to say “thank you” for the interest you have shown in our topics, articles and events over the past twelve months. 

We wish you a happy and healthy start to 2022.

Gabriele Kabelac has been head of the Bundesbank’s Representative Office in New York since August 2018. As a trained economist, she has worked in the Deutsche Bundesbank’s in Directorate General (DG) Economics since 1995 and has been active in a variety of different fields, including monetary policy and analysis as well as analysis of the banking sector from a monetary policy and economic perspective. Most recently, she served as deputy head of the Office for Cross-Sectional Tasks and Speeches in the  DG Economics.

Jens Fuhrmann has been the Bundesbank’s representative at the German embassy in Beijing since the end of 2018. He has worked at the Bundesbank since 1991. He has been a branch manager in Cologne, Wuppertal, Dresden and Chemnitz. Most recently, Jens Fuhrmann spent twelve years as an expert adviser in the field of cash management and payment systems at the CIC.