Jan Pieter Krahnen

Jan Pieter Krahnen ( born August 31, 1954) is Professor of Corporate Finance at Goethe University in Frankfurt and Director of the Center for Financial Studies.

Life

After an apprenticeship at BHF- Bank Krahnen studied business economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where in 1984 he received his doctorate. Four years later he was awarded the doctorate at the Free University of Berlin. After working at the University of Cologne and the Justus -Liebig- University Giessen took Krahnen 1995 a professorship at the Goethe University Frankfurt. At the same time he was also director of the Center for Financial Studies.

Research

Focus of research Krahnens are banks and financial intermediaries, credit management and credit markets.

Public influence

From 2008 to 2012 Krahnen was a member of the expert group " New Financial Architecture ", which should draw up proposals for a reform of the international financial markets on behalf of the federal government. The Commission, chaired by Otmar Issing (also: " Issing Commission") submitted a total of six reports. The end of 2010 Krahnen was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance. Since early 2011, he is also part of the scientific advisory board of the European Securities and Markets Authority ESMA in Paris.

In February 2012, appointed EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier Krahnen the only German member of a group of experts of the European Commission to structural reforms in the European banking sector. The eleven-member group chaired by the President of the Bank of Finland Erkki Liikanen (also called " Liikanen Commission") submitted on 2 October 2012, her report.