Christian Sewing

Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main

Christian Sewing, born in 1970, has been a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank since January 1, 2015. He has been Chief Executive Officer since April 2018.
He joined the bank in 1989. In July 2015, he assumed responsibility for Deutsche Bank’s Private & Commercial Bank until April 2018. Before that time, from January until June 2015, he was responsible on the Management Board for the bank’s Legal, Incident Management Group and Group Audit departments.
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 unit.
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.
He has been the President of the German Banking Association since July 2021 and from March 2023 to February 2025, he also was the President of the European Banking Federation.