Michael Cohrs

Michael Cohrs
Born	1956 Midland, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Finance professional
Years active	1981–present
Known for	Former co-head of corporate and investment banking at Deutsche Bank; member of the Bank of England Financial Policy Committee

Michael Cohrs (born 1956 in Midland, Michigan) is a prominent American finance professional. At Deutsche Bank, he held the positions of co-head of corporate and investment banking as well as head of global banking, where he managed areas including mergers and acquisitions, global capital markets, commercial banking, and transaction banking. Prior to his retirement in September 2010, he was a member of both the group executive committee and the management board.

Cohrs obtained his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1979 and completed his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1981. His career commenced at Goldman Sachs in New York City in 1981, followed by a relocation to London in 1989. Between 1991 and 1995, he served as a director at S. G. Warburg & Co.. After being recruited by Deutsche Bank, he significantly contributed to the expansion of its corporate and investment banking division.

In November 2009, Cohrs was named adjunct professor at Peking University in Beijing. Subsequently, in 2011, he was appointed to both the Financial Policy Committee and the Court (board) of the Bank of England by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the British Crown. Beginning January 2012, he took on an advisory role with EQT in Sweden.