Stefan Wintels

Stefan Wintels has been CEO of KfW since November 2021. He joined KfW as Co-CEO in October
2021.
Prior to joining KfW, Wintels worked at Citigroup for 20 Years (2001 - 2021) in various leadership roles.
Most recently, he was the Global Co-Head Financial Institutions Group and a member of the Global
Executive Committee of the Banking Capital Markets & Advisory Division. He was also Vice Chairman
of Citigroup in Germany, Chief Country Officer for Germany as well as CEO of Citigroup Global
Markets Europe AG until March 2020.
Stefan Wintels began his professional career in 1994 at Deutsche Bank AG (1994-2001) and left as
Managing Director at Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Development / Group Strategy Department.
He received a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Technische Universität Berlin and
participated in a 2nd year MBA program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Stefan Wintels is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KfW Capital GmbH & Co. KG and a
member of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Telekom AG and DHL Group.
Stefan Wintels lives in Frankfurt with his wife and their four children.