Christian Stiefmüller

Senior Research and Advocacy Advisor

Finance Watch
Areas of expertise:
  • Banking
  • Financial stability
  • FinTech

Christian advises Finance Watch on banking regulation as well as on questions around FinTech, financial supervision and pensions.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an MBA in Finance and from the University of Innsbruck with degrees in Law and Applied Languages. In the two decades of his career as a senior investment banker he worked at major international banks, including Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and UniCredit, advising large corporate clients and financial investors. More recently, he has returned to the field of International and European Union Law, concentrating on financial regulation.

Christian is the Finance Watch representative at the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority (EBA) and at the Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).