Sabine Lautenschläger

Sabine Lautenschläger is a senior advisor in Covington’s Frankfurt office and a member of the Global Public Policy Practice. Sabine, a non-lawyer, has had an extensive career in public service as banking regulator at EU level and in Germany. Most recently Sabine served as Vice-Chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism at the European Central Bank (ECB), as well as Member of the Executive Board of the ECB (2014-2019).

At the ECB, Sabine was inter alia responsible for the set up and management of the euro area banking supervisor, which is in charge of direct prudential supervision of all significant banking groups as well as indirect prudential supervision of all of the other banking groups in the euro area.

Sabine’s previous roles include Deputy Governor of Deutsche Bundesbank and Member of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Director of Banking Supervision at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). During her career she also served as member of different European and international committees, such as the European Banking Authority, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Financial Stability Board.