Fritzi Köhler-Geib is a Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and is responsible for IT, Data and Statistics, Risk Control and the Research Centre. Before this, she was the Chief Economist and First Vice President of KfW Group. Previously she worked for over twenty years at the IMF and the World Bank in various positions and regions as well as at private sector financial institutions, 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 Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. She holds two master degrees in economics and in international 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 transformation processes at Goethe University Frankfurt.