Michael Cohrs (born 1956 in

Midland, Michigan Midland is a city in Midland County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The population was 42,547 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Midland metropolitan statistical area, part of the larger Saginaw-Midland-Bay City ...

) is an American financier. He was co-head of corporate and investment banking and head of global banking (which comprises the

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, global capital markets, coverage, commercial banking and global transaction banking businesses) at

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. 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

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(1979) and a M.B.A. from

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(1981). In 1981 he started his career at

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, 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

and played a leading role in building its corporate and investment bank. In November 2009 Cohrs was appointed an adjunct professor at

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in Beijing. In 2011 Cohrs was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Financial Policy Committee and by the

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to the Court (board of directors) at the

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. In January 2012 he was appointed as an advisor to EQT in Sweden.

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External links

The Deal Interview with Michael Cohrs, Die Welt is Flat by Vipal Monga

The True Bosses of the Deutsche Bank by Gerd Zitzelsberger

Wall Street Journal Deutsche Bank Moves Put CEO Hunt in Focus

Cohrs Jain Avoid Crises Losses

* ttp://www.eqt.se/Organization/Industrial-Advisors/Michael-Cohrs/ Michael Cohrs Advisor to EQT {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohrs, Michael Living people 1956 births People from Midland, Michigan American bankers Harvard College alumni Harvard Business School alumni Goldman Sachs people People associated with the Bank of England Midland Dow High School alumni