120524_CV_Dirk Schrade

Curriculum vitae
Dirk Schrade, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
Dirk Schrade is Deputy Head of the Payments and Settlement
Systems Department at the Central Office of the Deutsche
Bundesbank.
After school and finishing his studies of business administration
at the University of Applied Sciences of the Bundesbank he first
worked for many years in the Branch and Main Office of the
former Land Central Bank in North-Rhine Westphalia. In 2000
he joined the Payment Systems Policy Division at the Central
Office of the Bundesbank in Frankfurt, focusing first on
individual payment systems/RTGS
plus
and then on the project
TARGET2.
His activities also include collaborating with the banking industry
in political issues (eg with regard to SEPA) and with other
central banks at G-10 and EU levels. He is also a member of
the TARGET2-Securities Advisory Group. Not least, he
represents the Bundesbank in the Payment and Settlement
Systems Committee (PSSC) of the ESCB.