Felix Hufeld

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Felix Hufeld (born June 17, 1961 in Mainz ) is a German lawyer and has been President of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) since March 2015 . On January 29, 2021, the Federal Minister of Finance , Olaf Scholz , announced that he wanted to fill the presidential post in the wake of the Wirecard scandal .

Life

education

Felix Hufeld studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1980 to 1985 and graduated with the first state examination in law. From 1986 to 1988 Hufeld obtained a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University and in 1991 passed his second state examination in Berlin.

Professional background

After a brief activity as a lawyer, Felix Hufeld began his career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf in early 1992 . From 1996 to 1998 he worked there as a manager / principal with a focus on the financial sector. After that, Hufeld moved to Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt as head of global corporate development for almost three years . From 2001 to 2010, Hufeld was then Chief Executive Officer at Marsh with responsibility for Germany, Austria and Northern Europe as well as other tasks on a European and global level. In 2010 he took on the role of managing partner of Agora Beteiligungen GmbH in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and was partner and chairman of the supervisory board of Inex24 AG in Ismaning . He also worked as a partner at Westlake Partners, who support medium-sized companies in investing in the Chinese market with capital and know-how, in Munich , Hong Kong and Shanghai .

Federal Financial Supervisory Authority

In January 2013, Felix Hufeld took over the duties of Executive Director for the area of insurance and pension fund supervision at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). During his time as BaFin Executive Director, Felix Hufeld was also a member of the Management Board and the Board of Supervisors of the European Supervisory Authority for Insurance and Company Pensions (EIOPA). He was also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) from 2014 to 2015 . Hufeld has been Elke König's successor as President of BaFin since March 2015 . On January 29, 2021, it was announced that Hufeld would have to vacate office in the wake of the Wirecard scandal. The previous executive director for securities supervision, Elisabeth Roegele, also resigned from office on January 29, 2021.

Felix Hufeld is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Single Banking Supervision Mechanism (SSM) of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Group of Central Bank Presidents and Heads of the Supervisory Authorities (GHOS) in Basel .

Private

Hufeld is married and has two children. His brother is the legal scholar Ulrich Hufeld .

Publications

  • Felix Hufeld: A Regulatory Framework for Systemic Risk in the Insurance Sector. In: Felix Hufeld, Ralph SJ Kojen, Christian Thimann (Eds.): The Economics, Regulation and Systemic Risk of Insurance Markets. Oxford, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d President of BaFin - Felix Hufeld's curriculum vitae. Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  2. a b Felix Hufeld: BaFin gets snappy boss. In: Spiegel Online. February 4, 2015, accessed February 4, 2015 .
  3. Scholz announces reorganization of BaFin. In: bundesfinanzministerium.de. January 29, 2021, accessed January 29, 2021 .
  4. ^ EIOPA elects new members of its management board. (PDF) Retrieved on July 19, 2017 (English).
  5. IAIS press release of October 27, 2014. (PDF) (No longer available online.) IAIS, October 27, 2014, archived from the original on August 10, 2017 ; accessed on July 19, 2017 (English).
  6. bah: Bafin boss Hufeld has to go after Wirecard scandal. In: spiegel.de. January 29, 2021, accessed January 30, 2021 .
  7. New start in personnel also in securities supervision. In: BaFin. January 29, 2021, accessed January 30, 2021 .
  8. ^ ECB: Members of the Supervisory Board. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .
  9. Bernd Neubacher: Börsen-Zeitung: BaFin rejects compromise “at any price” in Basel. In: Börsen-Zeitung. January 11, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .