Christiana Riley

Riley grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Greenwich High School in 1996.[1] In 2000, she attended Princeton University, where she majored in Romance languages and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 2005 she completed her Masters of Business Administration at the London Business School.[2][3]

Riley's professional career began in 2000 at the investment bank Greenhill, where she worked as an analyst in the New York office and later relocated to Frankfurt.[4] From there she moved to the consulting firm McKinsey, where she worked from 2004 to 2006 as an associate.[5]

In 2006, Riley began working at Deutsche Bank. There she first worked in the strategy department, which she headed from 2011 to 2015.[6] In 2019 the Wall Street journal reported she was proposed as the next CEO for the Americas region.[7][8] On January 1, 2020, she was appointed to the Management Board of Deutsche Bank, the only woman to serve on the board[9] and where she is Chief Executive Officer for DB USA Corp with responsibility for the Americas region.[10] The Financial Times named her one of the ten key figures on Wall Street in 2020.[11] Riley's work includes considering investments in Mexico[12] and is working on bring people back to the offices following the COVID-19 pandemic.[13][14]

She condemned the attack on the Capitol in Washington by Donald Trump supporters[15] in a LinkedIn post that was covered by the media.[16][17]

In 2004 she married Christopher Bruce Riley.[18] Riley has two children.[19]