Holger Schmieding

Holger Schmieding (born 10 January 1958) is a German economist and Bank economist.

Schmieding wrote before his studies from 1976 to 1978 as a journalist for the Westfälische Nachrichten in Münster. After a degree in economics in Munich, London and Kiel, he received his PhD on the topic of European integration: Integration of Central and Eastern European countries in transition in the economy and currencies of Western Europe in Kiel and worked at the University of Kiel as assistant to the president and then as head of the research group of Central and Eastern Europe at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Together with Herbert Giersch and Karl -Heinz Paqué he has written a book in Kiel with the West German economic history since 1948. In 1993, he worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC.

Later he worked as chief economist for Europe Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Frankfurt and London. Since October 1, 2010 he has been chief economist at Germany's oldest private bank, Berenberg Bank.

He is a frequent interlocutor of media, since the beginning of 2010 often about the euro crisis.