According to the ECB’s press release, Geretzki will lead the ECB’s internal audit and investigation activities, including whistleblower procedures. She will also be responsible for relations with other European institutions such as the European Anti-Fraud Office and the European Court of Auditors.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2015, Ms. Geretzki held various management and investment banking roles at Fortress Investment Group and Morgan Stanley, among others.
She completed her training in Mexico, the USA and at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel.
Apparently, the ECB no longer even realizes or cares that such personnel decisions create the impression of exaggerated ties with or even dependency on big finance. The question is: Why would a highly paid BlackRock manager go thorugh the revolving door to the ECB, which pays comparatively well for the public sector but certainly cannot offer the same salary prospects as BlackRock?
Before I forget to mention it: Ms. Geretzki is a Young Global Leader of the corporate lobby World Economic Forum, class of 2014.
She seems to have been removed from the Forum’s alumni lists. This usually happens at the request of the respective alumni. However, her name shows up on a list compiled by Roger Golden Brown in 2022 and with significant effort I was able to find a list of the class of 2014 in the unternet archive Wayback Machine. Her class of apprentices for furthering the interests of global corporations included Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko and Jacinda Ardern, the later celebrity head of government of New Zealand and globally renowned coronavirus hardliner.
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