Speakers

Sir Robert Stheeman was born and educated in the UK. He held positions with Vereins-und Westbank AG in Germany from 1979 to 1985 and completed his bank business degree at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in 1982.  Robert Stheeman worked on debt capital market issues at Deutsche Bank from 1986 until 2002 before becoming chief executive of the United Kingdom Debt Management Office in January 2003. The DMO was established as an executive agency of HM Treasury in April 1998 to carry out Government debt management (issuing gilts and managing the gilts market) and cash management (balancing the Government’s daily cash needs by issuing Treasury Bills and other transactions in the sterling money markets). Robert received a knighthood in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2016.