I would therefore like to thank him personally and on behalf of the Bundesbank for his service here in Mumbai. Given the excellent job that Thomas Notheis has done in Mumbai, I am particularly happy that he is taking his experience and skills to another post abroad. For the next three years, he will serve as the Bundesbank’s representative in Beijing.
But coming back to Mumbai, I would also like to take the opportunity to welcome our new representative, Alexander Sattler. Before joining the Bundesbank, he previously worked as a policy advisor at GIZ, the German Federal Government’s agency for international development cooperation.