Stefan Wintels has been Chairman of the Executive Board of KfW Bankengruppe since November 2021. He joined KfW in October 2021 as Co-Chairman of the Executive Board.

Prior to joining KfW, he held various leadership positions at Citigroup for 20 years (2001–2021). Most recently, Wintels served as Global Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group and a member of the Global Executive Committee of the Banking Capital Markets & Advisory Division. He also served as Vice Chairman of Citigroup in Germany, Chief Country Officer for Germany, and CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG until March 2020.

Wintels began his professional career in 1994 at Deutsche Bank AG (1994–2001) and left the bank as Managing Director of the Corporate Development department.

He holds a degree in business administration from the Technical University of Berlin and completed a one-year MBA exchange program in the United States at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Stefan Wintels is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KfW Capital GmbH & Co. KG and a member of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Telekom AG and the DHL Group.

He is active in various volunteer roles and lives in Frankfurt with his wife and four children.