Burkhard Balz

Burkhard Balz, born in 1969, has served on the Bundesbank’s Executive Board since Sep-tember 2018 and is responsible for the Directorates General Payments and Settlement Sys-tems, Cash Management, Digital Euro and International Central Bank Dialogue. He is a member of the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on central bank digital currency. Mr Balz is also a Member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures of the Bank for International Settlements. Since January 2024 he is alternate member of the Board of Direc-tors of the Bank for International Settlements.
From 2009 up until joining the Deutsche Bundesbank, Mr Balz was a Member of the Euro-pean Parliament. Prior to this he held various positions at Commerzbank AG in Brussels and Hanover.