Sabine Lautenschläger

Biography

Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Sabine Lautenschläger was born in Stuttgart in 1964. She studied law in Bonn. After passing the second state examination in law, she joined the Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Kreditwesen (BAKred – Federal Banking Supervisory Office), which later became the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin – Federal Financial Supervisory Authority). In the course of her career at BAKred/BaFin, she held several management positions before being appointed BaFin’s Chief Executive Director of Banking Supervision in 2008.

In 2011 Ms Lautenschläger moved to the Deutsche Bundesbank, serving as the Deputy President – the first woman to hold that position – until January 2014, when she was appointed to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, with responsibility for the Directorate General Statistics. Since her appointment as Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) in February 2014, she has also been in charge of ECB Banking Supervision. She represents ECB Banking Supervision on the Single Resolution Board, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Financial Stability Board’s Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation.