Michael Cohrs


Michael Cohrs is an American financier. He was Co-head of Corporate and Investment Banking and head of Global Banking at Deutsche Bank. He was also a member of the Group Executive Committee and the Management Board. He retired from Deutsche Bank in September 2010.
Cohrs holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. In 1981 he started his career at Goldman Sachs in New York, and was sent to London in 1989. Between 1991 and 1995 he served as a Director at S. G. Warburg & Co.. He was recruited by Deutsche Bank and played a leading role in building its corporate and investment bank.
In November 2009 Cohrs was appointed an Adjunct Professor at Peking University in Beijing.
In 2011 Michael Cohrs was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Financial Policy Committee and by the British Crown to the Court at the Bank of England.
In January 2012 he was appointed as an advisor to EQT in Sweden.