Andreas Dombret was born in the US to German parents. He studied business management at the University of Münster and was awarded his PhD by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1987 to 1991, he worked at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, from 1992 to 2002 at JP Morgan in Frankfurt and London, from 2002 to 2005 as Co-Head of Rothschild in Germany, before serving Bank of America as European Vice Chairman and Head for Germany, Austria and Switzerland between 2005 and 2009. He was awarded an honorary professorship from the European Business School in 2009. From 2010 to 2018, he served on the Executive Board of Deutsche Bundesbank with responsibility for Banking & Financial Supervision, Financial Stability, Economic Education, Markets, University of Applied Sciences & Technical Central Bank Cooperation, Risk Controlling and the Bundesbank’s representatives abroad. During his term he represented the Bundesbank in various functions at the G7 and the G20, the IMF, the Financial Stability Board, the Supervisory Board of the ECB, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Bank for International Settlements. Andreas Dombret is now acting, amongst others, as Global Senior Advisor to Oliver Wyman and is lecturing at Columbia University.