Prof Dr. Axel Weber

President of the Center for Financial Studies
Former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber is President of the Center for Financial Studies at the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of RAISIN SE, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the VISA Economic Empowerment Institute, Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe, and a member of the Group of Thirty.

Weber was Chairman of UBS Group AG in Zurich (2012–2022) and Chairman of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). He was President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt (2004–2011) and a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, German Governor of the International Monetary Fund, and a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors.

His academic career includes professorships in international economics, monetary theory, and economic theory at the universities of Cologne, Frankfurt, and Bonn, as well as a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago Booth School.