Hans-Walter Peters (born 3 April 1955) is a German banker. He is the current spokesman of the personally liable partners (i.e. head) of

Berenberg Bank Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, commonly known as Berenberg Bank and also branded as simply Berenberg, is a multinational full-service investment bank based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded by the Flemish Berenberg family in 1590 () and ...

and the president of the Association of German Banks, the main lobby group for Germany's financial sector.

Career

Peters earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Kiel in 1986, and started his career as a bond portfolio analyst with

Dresdner Bank Dresdner Bank AG was a German bank and was based in Frankfurt. It was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was acquired by competitor Commerzbank in May 2009. History 19th century The Dresdner Bank was established on 12 Novemb ...

in 1987. He was head of portfolio strategy at DZ Bank 1989–1990 and head of the securities division at

Frankfurter Volksbank The Frankfurter Volksbank eG is a Cooperative bank and has its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. The bank's business area includes the city of Frankfurt and parts of the surrounding area. History The history of the ''Frankfurter Volksbank'' go ...

1990–1994. Peters joined Berenberg Bank in 1994, and was named as a personally liable partner at the bank in 2000. As head of Berenberg Bank, he has significantly expanded the bank's activities in

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. In 2010, Peters and his co-chairman Hendrik Riehmer borrowed €72 million to buy a 21 per cent stake in Berenberg previously held by public lender

NordLB The Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (abbreviated NORD/LB) is a German Landesbank and one of the largest commercial banks in Germany. It is a public corporation majority-owned by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with its h ...

Other activities

* KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (since 2018) * Übersee Club, Member of the Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees
Übersee Club. *

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management The WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is a top German business school with campuses in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany. WHU was founded in 1984 by the Koblenz Chamber of Commerce as the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmens ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees

References

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