The American Council on Germany is having a discussion with Burkhard Balz on “A Central Banker’s View on the Current Developments in Germany, Europe and the United States”
A Central Banker’s View on the Current Developments in Germany, Europe and the United States
December 3 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EST
Burkhard Balz Burkhard Balz, born in 1969, has served on the Bundesbank’s Executive Board since September 2018 and is responsible for the Directorates General Payments and Settlement Systems, Cash Management, Digital Euro and International Central Bank Dialogue. He is a member of the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on central bank digital currency. Mr. Balz is also a Member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures of the Bank for International Settlements. Since January 2024 he is alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlement.
From 2009 up until joining the Deutsche Bundesbank, Mr. Balz was a Member of the Euro-pean Parliament, where he sat on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and served as the financial policy spokesman of the European People’s Party (EPP) between 2014 and 2018. Mr. Balz was Chair of the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum from 2014 to 2018, which is composed of financial market stakeholders and high-level representatives of the EU Institutions. Prior to his membership of the European Parliament, Mr. Balz held various positions at Commerzbank AG in Brussels and Hanover.