Axel Weber

Economist, Professor, Banker and President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt

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Axel Weber is President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe and a member of the Group of Thirty.

He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute. He also chairs the Advisory Boards of CVC Advisers Limited and Raisin GmbH. Furthermore, he is a senior global advisor of Boston Consulting Group and advises the Senior Management of Flossbach von Storch AG.

From 2012 to 2022, Axel Weber served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBS Group AG. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Finance.

Prof. Weber was the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank (2004-2011) and served as a Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, German Governor of the International Monetary Fund and was a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors. He was a member of the steering committees of the European Systemic Risk Board (2011) and the Financial Stability Board (2010-2011).

He was Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2011-2012) and Professor of International Economics at the University of Cologne (2001-2004). He also served as a Member of the German Council of Economic Experts (2002-2004). Before that, he was Professor of Monetary Economics and Director of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt (1998-2001). He was also Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Bonn (1994-1998).

Axel Weber holds a PhD in economics from the University of Siegen. He graduated with a master’s degree in economics at the University of Constance and holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Constance.