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Thomas Mirow, President

Thomas Mirow, born in January 1953, is the fifth president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He took up this position on 3 July 2008. The EBRD Board of Governors nominated Mr Mirow on 19 May 2008 to replace Jean Lemierre as President of the EBRD.

After graduating from the University of Bonn in 1975, Mr Mirow worked as the Assistant and then as Chef de cabinet to former German Chancellor Willy Brandt, then Chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic party.

After serving as Director of the Press Office of the city-state of Hamburg, Mr Mirow held several senior positions within the Hamburg administration between 1991 and 2001, including state minister for economics. He also held several senior management and advisory positions in the private sector.

More recently, Mr Mirow was Director General for Economic Policy in the Federal Chancellery in 2005 and appointed State Secretary at the Federal Finance Ministry in November 2005.

 

Speeches	Photographs
Haus Rissen Hamburg, 5 February 2010 Kazakhstan Foreign Investors’ Council, Astana 4 December 2009 Health & Safety in Mining, Astana 2-3 December 2009 Georgia Investment Conference, London November 2009 CEI Summit, Bucharest November 2009 Association of European Businesses, Moscow November 2009 Foreign Investment Advisory Council, Moscow November 2009 LMA Syndicated Loans Conference, London September 2009 More speeches	Publicity photos EBRD Annual Meeting, London, 2009 EBRD Annual Meeting, Kiev, 2008 Visit to Serbia, 2008 Visit to Turkey, 2008