Passionate about talent and reputation, Christine will join FGS, the leading global communications and public affairs consultancy in January 2025 as their Global Chief Growth officer. She most recently served on the Executive Board of Credit Suisse as Global Head of People, where she initially led the communications function before fully focusing on People from 2022 onwards. She played a pivotal role during the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS driving HR integration.
From 2013 to 2020, Graeff was Director General Communications at the European Central Bank (ECB), where she advised both President Draghi and President Lagarde on all aspects of monetary policy communications during critical periods. Before joining the ECB, Graeff was Managing Partner at Brunswick, where she launched and scaled the Group’s German operations, focusing on the firm’s global financial services practice. She started her career as an investment banker in the Corporate Finance team of Kleinwort Benson before moving into communications , with two years with Burson Marsteller in London.
Graeff is actively engaged in cultural and social initiatives. She chairs the Board of Trustees of the English Theatre in Frankfurt and serves on the boards of the Ringier Equal Voice Initiative, Mona AI and of the Frankfurt Opera.
She holds an Honoris Causa doctorate from Middlesex university, a member of the European Partnership of Business Schools where she studied European Business Administration.
Besides her YGL affiliation , she is a member of Generation CEO, German Baden-Badener Unternehmer Gespräche, sits on the advisory board of Atlantik Brücke and supports various leadership and communications networks and initiatives.