Member of the ECB's Executive Board
Jürgen Stark
Date of birth: 31 May 1948
Place of birth: Gau-Odernheim
(Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany
Education
- 1966
- High school leaving certificate
- 1968 - 1973
- Studies in economics at the University of Hohenheim and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
- 1973
- Graduated in economics
- 1975
- Doctorate in economics
Professional career
- 1973 - 1978
- Research assistant, University of Hohenheim
- 1978 - 1988
- Official in the Economic Policy Department, Federal Ministry of Economics
- 1982 - 1983
- First Secretary at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Geneva
- 1988 - 1992
- Head of the division “Foreign Trade and Payments, Money and Foreign Currency, Financial Markets”, Federal Chancellery
- October 1992
- Deputy Head of the department “National Monetary Policy, Capital Market Policy, Germany as a Financial Centre, Borrowing”, Federal Ministry of Finance
- 1993 - 1994
- Head of the department “International Monetary and Financial Relations, Financial Relations in the EC”, Federal Ministry of Finance
- 1995 - 1998
- State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance and Personal Representative of the Federal Chancellor in preparations for the G7/G8 Economic Summits
- Sep. 1998 - Apr. 2002
- Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank (1st term); member of the Central Bank Council; deputised for the President on the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
- May 2002 - May 2006
- Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank (2nd term); responsible for International Relations and Internal Auditing; deputised for the President on the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
- since Jun. 2005
- Honorary professor in the Faculty of Economics at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
- since Jun. 2006
- Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
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Other posts
- Member of the EU Monetary Committee (1995 - 1998)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG (1995 - 1998)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG (1995 - 1998)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (German Investment and Development Corporation) (1997 - 1998)
- Member of the G7 and G10 Deputies (1995 - 2006)
- Alternate Governor and Delegate for Germany to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (1995 - 2006)
- Member of the ESCB’s International Relations Committee (1998 - 2006)
- Deputy Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (1998 - 2006)
- Member of the Committee on the Global Financial System (G10, BIS) (1998 - 2006)
- Member of the G20 Deputies (1999 - 2006)
- Member of the Financial Stability Forum (1999 - 2006)
- Member of the EU Economic and Financial Committee (since 1999)
- Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Board of the ifo Institute, Munich (since 1999)
- Chairman of the Board, University of Hildesheim Foundation (Lower Saxony) (since 2003)
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