Michael Cohrs

Michael Cohrs ( born 1956 in Midland, Michigan ) is an American banker and was from 2009 to September 2010 Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank.

Cohrs earned 1979 B. A. Harvard College and the M.B.A. Then, at the Harvard Business School in 1981., he began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York. In 1989 he was sent to London. There he joined in 1991 as director of SG Warburg & Co.. Having his company was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation in 1995, he appeared in the same year at Deutsche Bank, where he played a leading role in strengthening the position of a leading international investment bank.

As head of the firm's Global Banking, he is on the board of the Bank for the financial Corporate Finance (project and real estate finance, advising on mergers and acquisitions and the corresponding financing for large firms) and Global Transaction Banking (services in securities trading, not just for their own execution but mainly responsible for external customers ). His office is London. In June 2010 it was announced that Michael Cohrs is to retire and his division is merged with that of Anshu Jain and the latter will take the lead.

In November 2009, Cohrs took a teaching position at the University of Beijing. In 2011 he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of England and in January 2012 he was appointed Fellow at the University of Cambridge.