Jürgen Klaus is a Principal Team Lead for the Derivatives and Market Intelligence team in Funding and Investor Relations at the ESM.

Prior to that, he worked for sister borrower EFSF as a seconded analyst and funding officer since January 2012, coming from Deutsche Finanzagentur in Frankfurt.

Since 1998, Jürgen held various front office positions in both private sector and quasi-public banks as a derivatives and bonds trader.

Jürgen holds a Master of Business Administration  (MBA) degree in General Management from the European University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and a Master in Law & Finance (LL.M.) from Riga Graduate School of Law. His PhD studies in Finance focus on negative interest rates and market intelligence at Technische Universität Dresden.