Dr. Rolf Wenzel

Director General, Financial Market Policy Department, Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany.

Rolf Wenzel is the Head of the Financial Market Policy Department of Germany´s Federal Ministry of Finance. His responsibilities include the formulation of policies and strategies with respect to federal credit institutions (e.g. Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau), federal debt management, financial markets (banking, insurance, investment, stock markets and securities) as well as international financial and monetary policy. Moreover, he is also responsible for the supervision of the Financial Market Stabilisation Authority and the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. He serves as Germany´s Alternate Governor in the regional multilateral banks (CDB, AsDB, AfDB, IDB) and represents Germany in international fora such as G7/G8, G20, OECD and EBRD meetings.

Prior to his present position, he served as a Deputy Director General for international financial and monetary policy. In this latter capacity he also worked on exchange rate policy issues, restructuring of country debt (Paris Club), IMF programmes, capital market policies and international development policies.

He also worked in the Ministry of Finance on European issues, specialising in European Economic and Monetary Union. In this capacity, he was a member of the German delegation to the intergovernmental conference on Economic and Monetary Union and participated in the negotiations leading to EMU. Before that he served as an Advisor to the German Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund. Before joining the Ministry, he was an Assistant Professor at Ruhr University in Bochum, where he received a doctorate in Economics and Econometrics having studied at the University of Hamburg and the London School of Economics.