Christian Schneider

Christian Schneider has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Christian is currently the Head of Risk at Solactive AG, starting in 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf as the Managing Director at Fashion Digital from an unspecified date to 2022 and as the Head of Internal Audit from 2017 to 2020. Christian also served as the Head of Internal Audit at GAZPROM Germania GmbH from 2014 to 2017 and as a Senior Manager Internal Audit at airberlin from 2009 to 2014. Christian began their career at KPMG as an Audit Commercial Clients from 2007 to 2009 and at EY in Tax from 2006 to 2007.

Christian Schneider completed a Master / Diplom degree in Economics / Volkswirtschaftslehre from The University of Freiburg. In 2019, they pursued a Master of Laws (LLM) in Compliance and Corporate Security at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln. Christian also attended Deutsche Schule Santiago de Chile, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned for this period. In terms of certifications, they obtained the following: Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) in 2019, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor from Firebrand Training in 2015, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) from ISACA in 2011, Cobit Practitioner and IT Governance Manager from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in 2011, and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) from IIA-The Institute of Internal Auditors in 2010. More recently, in 2021 they obtained the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation Certificate from AXELOS Global Best Practice, and in 2022, they completed the Cloud Architect using Microsoft Azure certification from Udacity.