He is a regular speaker at meetings organized by, inter alia, the ECB, the European Parliament, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Chicago, the International Monetary Fund, the FDIC and Deutsche Bundesbank. He has developed and delivered executive education programmes for major global banks and institutions. He also acts as an advisor to central banks as well as to firms in the finance industry. Prior to joining academia, Sascha Steffen worked at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York.