Volker Kurr
Head of Europe, Institutional, L&G ,
Volker Kurr is Head of Europe within L&G’s Asset Management division. He is responsible for the European distribution, Institutional and Wholesale. Appointed as Head of Europe, Institutional, in 2017, having joined the firm in 2013 with the responsibility for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, he took over the responsibility for the European wholesale business in 2024. He was peviously a member of the board for Cominvest, the asset management subsidiary of Commerzbank. He was Chief Executive Officer of SEB Invest, divisional member of the Executive Committee in Sweden and founding partner of MARS AM. He held the position of Chief Executive Officer at one of BNY Mellon’s asset management companies and member of the Global Executive Committee Asset Management of BNY Mellon. He was Head of Institutional and Wholesale Products and member of the Executive Committee of UBS AG. During his many years in the investment industry, he has also served on various supervisory and non-executive boards. Volker holds a diploma in business administration from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich LMU and an MBA from London Business School. He has also joined programmes at INSEAD, Wharton, Harvard, Northwestern University Kellogg and is a Certified European Financial Analyst CEFA and a Certified Performance Presentation Verifyer.
