Fritzi Köhler-Geib

Fritzi Köhler-Geib

Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank

Fritzi Köhler-Geib is a Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and is responsible for the Research Centre, Data and Statistics, Information Technology and Risk Control. Before assuming this role in November 2024, she was the Chief Economist and First Vice President of the Economics Department of KfW Group. Previously she worked for over ten years at the IMF & the Word Bank in various positions and regions, last as the World Banks Lead Economist and Programme Leader for Central America. She received her PhD in Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Pom-peu Fabra University, Spain. She holds two master degrees in economics and in interna-tional management from the University of St. Gallen, HEC Paris and the University of Michigan. Her research interests focus on financial crises, their stabilization and growth-enhancing reforms. In addition, she teaches a master’s level course on economic trans-formation processes at Goethe University Frankfurt.

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