Karlheinz Walch ©Bert Bostelmann

Karlheinz Walch Director General Financial Supervision

Professional career

Since January 2021
Director General 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, Rhineland-Palatinate