Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling is Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, his areas of responsibility are Banking supervision, Risk control, and Information Technology. He is further member of the ECB Supervisory Board, of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), and of the German Financial Stability Committee as well as alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Since November 2016

  • Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
  • ECB Supervisory Board – member
  • Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) – member
  • German Financial Stability Committee – member
  • Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – alternate, Board of Directors

2011 – 2016

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Sparda-Banken e.V., Frankfurt/Main

2008 – 2011

Member of the Executive Board of the German Insurance Association (Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V.), Berlin

2005 – 2008

State secretary (with civil servant status) at the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, where he was responsible for coordinating European policy matters

1999 – 2005  

Member of the European Parliament (CSU), primarily responsible for legal and economic topics, Strasbourg/Brussels

1993 – 1999

Head of section for European affairs at the Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich

1993 – 1995

Expert in the cabinet of Peter Schmidhuber, Member of the European Commission, Brussels

1989 – 1993

Personal secretary to the chief of staff and expert on European affairs at the Bavarian representative office in Bonn

 

Academic training in Bayreuth, Erlangen, Dijon, and Florence

  • Law degree and PhD
  • Master of European, International and Comparative Law

Activities outside the Bundesbank

  • E-Finance Lab at the House of Finance – Chairman of the Council
  • European-Union Deutschland e.V. – Treasurer
  • Förderverein der Europa-Union Deutschland e.V.  Treasurer
  • Institute for European Politics – Member of the Board of Trustees
  • SAFE Policy Council – Member
  • University of Potsdam – Lecturing position in European politics; honorary professorship since 2011