Christian Sewing

Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main

Christian Sewing, born in 1970, has been a member of the Management Board since January 1, 2015. He has been Chief Executive Officer since April 2018.

He joined the bank in 1989. From January until June 2015, he was responsible on the Management Board for the departments: Legal, Incident Management Group and Group Audit, and assumed responsibility for Deutsche Bank’s Private & Commercial Bank between July 2015 and April 2018. He was Head of Group Audit from June 2013 to December 2014, prior to which he held a number of management positions in Deutsche Bank’s Risk Management. From 2012 to 2013, he was Deputy Chief Risk Officer. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the Bank’s Chief Credit Officer. He has worked in Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Toronto.

From 2005 until 2007, Christian Sewing was a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Genossenschafts-Hypothekenbank.

Since July 2021, he serves as the President of the German Banking Association. As of March 2023, he is also President of the European Banking Federation.