Barbara A. Knoflach, has been CEO of SEB Asset Management AG since August 2005 and Managing Director of the real estate investment company SEB Immobilien-Investment GmbH since June 1999. After joining SEB AG in 1994, Barbara initially played a key role in helping to expand the bank’s closed-end property funds and property leasing activities. She was appointed head of the fund management companies in 1997. After receiving her degree in business administration (Dipl. Betriebswirtin) at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Barbara started her career in 1986 in international project financing at Deutsche Bank AG. In 1991, she moved within the Deutsche Bank Group to Deutsche Immobilien Anlagegesellschaft mbH, where she worked in the area of consulting and research.