Munich - Dr Christoph Fischer will join BayernLB as head of the Global Structured & Trade Finance division in the Bank’s Corporates & Mittelstand business area. By 1 January 2018 at the latest, the 45-year old will follow in the footsteps of Alexander von Dobschütz, who will be appointed to the Board of Management of Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB). Christoph Fischer, who studied business administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and obtained his PhD in the field of capital market research, has been responsible for structured finance and trade finance at UniCredit Bank AG, Munich since 2013 in his role as “Global Head of Natural Resources”.

“With Christoph Fischer we have managed to attract a highly respected industry expert, who has extensive international experience and will be a great addition to BayernLB’s product expertise in structured finance and trade finance,” commented Michael Bücker, the BayernLB Board of Management member in charge of corporate banking.
Michael Bücker also expressed BayernLB’s thanks to Alexander von Dobschütz: “Alexander von Dobschütz showed great commitment in building up the Global Structured & Trade Finance division and continued to develop it with great success. His appointment to the DKB Board of Management will further intensify the close cooperation within the Group.”

About Christoph Fischer
Prior to his position as “Global Head of Natural Resources”, Christophe Fischer worked in global consulting and financing of commodities projects at UniCredit Bank AG from 2005 onwards and from 2011 he was responsible for all the bank’s project and commodity finance transactions in the transport infrastructure, energy and commodities sectors as Global Co-Head of Project & Commodity Finance. He started his career in 2001 at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in Washington, followed by a position in Private Equity Mandates at KPMG Deutschland, which he held from 2004 until he joined UniCredit.