Eberhard Hackel is a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings’ European structured finance group and head of the Frankfurt based structured finance team. The team is primarily dealing with European ABS, RMBS and CDO transactions with a regional focus on Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

Before joining Fitch in 2008, Eberhard worked in the risk controlling department of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). His responsibilities included measuring the Helaba group’s market risk and working with German regulators supervising Helaba’s internal market risk model.

Eberhard holds a diploma in business administration from the University of Göttingen and has earned the FRM certification of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.