Bruno Wenn

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Bruno Wenn
Bruno Wenn is Chairman of the Board of Management of DEG since October 2009. Prior to that he has been working for KfW Bankengruppe since 1982, in his last position he was responsible for the Regional Division Sub-Saharan Africa. Before that he was Head of the Secretariat for Financial Cooperation of KfW Development Bank and responsible for strategy and policy of KfW’s financial assistance to developing countries. Prior to this he was Director and Head of the Policy Department of KfW Development Bank. Before entering the Policy Department in 1996, Bruno Wenn worked as Head of the Department for Development Policy. From 1992 to 1995 he was Chief of the Division for Social and Economic Infrastructure in the Sector Policy Department; he worked in the South Asia Department as Senior Economist (1987-1992) and in the East Asia Department as Project Manager (1983-1987).

After graduating from University of Bonn in 1981 with a degree in economics and a post graduate training programme in development economics at the German Development Institute, Berlin, in 1981/1982, Bruno Wenn began his career as a trainee with the KfW in Frankfurt.

Bruno Wenn was born in 1955. He is married and has no children.

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