16 April 1960
Born in 1960 in Heilbronn, Germany

1979 – 1982
Trained as a bank clerk at Landesgirokasse Stuttgart

1982 – 1988
Economics degree (Diplom-Volkswirt) at the University of Mannheim

1988
Joined the Deutsche Bundesbank

1990 – 1997
Analyst in the Directorate General Markets at the Deutsche Bundesbank

1997 – 2000
Representative of the Deutsche Bundesbank for Latin America, German Embassy Buenos Aires, Argentina

2000 – 2003
Senior expert and member of the Secretariat of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF), the predecessor of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland

2004 – 2005
Deputy Head of Division Market Analysis, Portfolios at the Deutsche Bundesbank

2005 – 2006
Head of Division Securities Settlement and Custody at the Deutsche Bundesbank

2006 – 2021
Director General Payments and Settlement Systems at the Deutsche Bundesbank

2006 – 2021
Member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure (CPMI), formerly Committee on Payments and Settlement Systems (CPPS)

2006 – 2021
Member of the Market Infrastructure Board (MIB) at the ECB, formerly T2S Board, T2S Pro-gramme Board and PSSC

2006 – 2021
Chairman of the DE AMI-SeCo National Stakeholder Group, formerly T2S National User Group

since December 2021
President of the Regional Office in North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf