Petra Wehlert

Petra Wehlert

Head of capital markets

KfW

Petra Wehlert is first vice president and head of capital markets at KfW. She is responsible for all capital market funding activities including the Euro and USD benchmark programmes, green bonds and structured private placements. Furthermore she oversees investor relations, ratings and documentation issues.

Before her current role, she headed the team for new issues in public markets within the capital market division of KfW.

Since starting at KfW in 1995 she has worked in diverse areas such as derivative markets and liquidity management. She started her new role in February 2016.

She  is also vice chair for the ICMA (International Capital Market Association) German Regional Committee. Before her career at KfW, she worked for the Deutsche Bundesbank in capital markets.