Peter Buerger

Peter has spent 37 years in international banking with Commerzbank before leaving the bank in December 2009.

He served as Managing Director for Commerzbank’s Tokyo Securities business, General Manager of its London Branch, Group Managing Director for Multinational Corporates and led its Asian business as a Regional Board Member and then as its Vice Chairman for Asia. With half of his working career spent in Asia, Peter now looks after a portfolio of activities focused on foreign direct investments between Germany and Asia as well as some regional bank advisory work.

He is a former Chairman of the London Foreign Bankers Association, and Vice-President of the British Bankers Association and received the German Order of Merit in 2002 for his achievements in German-British economic relations.