HANS KÖPPEN

Hans Köppen, 36, was appointed managing director of Investkredit Bank's representative office in Poland. He came here in 1998 to head the project finance department of Bankgesellschaft Berlin (Polska), where he provided financing for major industrial clients and completed merger and acquisition transactions in the municipal water sector. From 1994 to 1998, Köppen worked in the international project finance department at Bankgesellshaft Berlin's headquarters in Germany, where he provided financing for power stations, toll highways, hotels and other infrastructure projects worldwide. Köppen holds a master's degree in economics from the Freie Universität Berlin. He speaks Polish and English fluently and can communicate well in French. In his free time, he enjoys studying Polish, sailing on the Mazurian lakes and the Baltic Sea and spending time with his wife and daughter.