Prof. Hans-Helmut Kotz
Professor Kotz is Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
responsible for the Information Technology Department and the Markets Department. Born in Röhl (Eifel), he studied economics at the universities of Mainz and Cologne. In 1982 he became Research assistant at the Monopolies Commission in Cologne. He then joined the conomics and Information Department of Deutsche Girozentrale in Frankfurt and from 1984 was Head of Department and Chief Economist.Professor Kotz was President of the Land Central Bank of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt between 1999 and 2002. Since 1 May 2002 he joined the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
Prof. Kotz is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Behavioural Sciences at Freiburg University; Member of the Board at the “Constance Seminar on Monetary Theory”, Konstanzer Verein, Bonn; Member of the Panel of Financial Experts, European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs; and Member of the Advisory Board, Blekinge Institute for Technology, Ronneby (Sweden). He is affiliated with the Program Council, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt; Centre Saint-Gobain pour la Recherche en Économie, Paris; and Conseil d’Orientation, Revue d’Economie Financière, Paris.
His work includes contributions, as author as well as editor, to a number of books and articles, for example in the “Revue d’Economie Financière”, “Kredit und Kapital” or “Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft”.
