Bernhard Speyer

Dr. Bernhard Speyer is Co-Head of Research at Deutsche Bank AG.
Since June 2012, he has been Managing Director of Deutsche Bank Research, having served as Deputy Head since November 2010.
In addition to this role, he continues to be the Head of the Banking, Financial Markets and Regulation Department of DB Research, a position held since mid-2001.
In this role, he is responsible for briefing the senior management of Deutsche Bank on regulatory issues as well as on structural issues in the financial industry.
In addition, he represents Deutsche Bank on these issues in discussions with clients, authorities, parliaments and the general public.
Mr. Speyer had joined Deutsche Bank Research in January 1998 as a Senior Economist responsible for the coverage of issues relating to international monetary and trade policy, structural developments in banking and financial markets as well as regulation and supervision.
Areas of special interest include the structure of financial supervision in the European Union, EU financial market integration, and the governance of the international financial system.
Before joining Deutsche Bank Research, he was a lecturer at the Economics Department of Freie Universität Berlin, where he taught international monetary policy and trade policy from 1993 to1997.
Mr. Speyer studied economics at the University of Leicester, U.K.
and the Freie Universität Berlin, where he graduated.
He holds a doctorate in economics from the Freie Universität.
He is an alumnus of the British-German Forum (2001), the Young Leaders’ Programmes of the American Council on Germany (2005) and of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations / Dräger Foundation (2000).