Director-General · European Stability Mechanism
Klaus Regling has worked for 50 years in senior positions in the public and the private sector in Europe, Asia and the United States. After studying economics at the Universities of Hamburg and Regensburg, he worked 11 years for the IMF in Washington and Jakarta and a decade for the German Ministry of Finance, where he prepared EMU.
He was Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission from 2001 to 2008 and subsequently spent a year at the Lee Kuan Yew School in Singapore. His experience in the private sector includes work for the German Bankers‘ Association (1980-81), the Moore Capital Group (1999-2001) and as Chairman of KR-Economics (2009-10).
From 2010 to 2022 Klaus Regling was the CEO oft he EFSF and from 2012 to 2022 the Managing Director of the ESM. Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of CEPR and on the International Advisory Board of CHUBB