Joachim Nagel (born 31 May 1966) is a German economist who has been serving as President of the Bundesbank since 2022.^[1] Before he was a senior manager of the Bank for International Settlements since 2020, having been a member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 2010 to 2016 and then a member of the board of the KfW Bankengruppe from 2017 to 2020. He was appointed President of the Deutsche Bundesbank on 1 January 2022, succeeding Jens Weidmann who resigned.^[2]

After graduating from the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium Karlsruhe, Nagel studied economics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.^[3]

After graduating in 1991, Nagel worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as a research assistant and later an advisor for economic and financial policy at the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Bonn from March to October 1994. Funded by the SEW-EURODRIVE-Stiftung, he also spent a year in Washington doing research.^[4]

In 1999 Nagel moved to the Bundesbank, initially as Head of the Office of the President of the then State Central Bank in Bremen, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Hanover. In 2003 he moved to the headquarters of the Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main. In 2008 he became head of the central department Markets. In December 2010, he replaced Thilo Sarrazin, who had resigned, on the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbank. On April 30, 2016, he resigned from the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

On November 1, 2016, Nagel joined the KFW Bankengruppe, the largest public development bank in Germany, as a general manager^[5] and then from 2017 to 2020 as Executive Board member. At the same time he was chairman of the supervisory board of KfW IPEX-Bank and first deputy chairman of the supervisory board of DEG German investment and development company.^[6]

On November 1, 2020, Nagel became a member of the management of the Bank for International Settlements as Deputy Head of Banking.

Nagel is married and has two children. He is a member of the SPD.^[16]