Burkhard Balz
Member of the Executive Board
Deutsche Bundesbank
Deutsche Bundesbank
Burkhard Balz, born in 1969, has served on the Bundesbank’s Executive Board since Septem-ber 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 Internation-al 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 European 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. In his role as a European Parliament rapporteur, Mr Balz presented reports on, inter alia, Lat-via’s accession to the euro area, the Solvency II Directive and regulations pertaining to the European Supervisory Authorities and the ECB Banking Supervision. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a member of the EPP Group Bureau. Mr Balz was Chair of the European Parliamen-tary 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 Com-merzbank AG in Brussels and Hanover, where he most recently headed the department for institutional clients. Mr Balz studied law at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and com-pleted a bank apprenticeship.
