Kai Fehr

Global Head International Trade Services Commercial Capital Group, Wells Fargo & Company

^{Kai Fehr is a senior vice president and the global head of International Trade Services, part of Wells Fargo’s Commercial Capital Group. Based in Singapore, Kai is responsible for developing and executing the global sales strategy for traditional trade products across the Wholesale Banking Group platform, and managing a global senior management team to ensure that product, sales, credit, distribution, and alliance services meet sales and customer service objectives. Kai joined Wells Fargo from Barclays Bank in Singapore, where he was the managing director and head of Trade & Working Capital for Asia Pacific, leading trade sales, trade product, and trade asset distribution. Before Barclays, he was with UniCredit’s Markets and Investment Bank in Singapore, where he had various roles leading a distressed debt special situation fund in the Philippines, and was also responsible for structured trade facilities and commodity finance for Asian clients. In June 2018, Kai was appointed as co-chair of the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT) Asia Council, and is a member of the BAFT Board of Directors. He has also been the chair of the Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) Sustainable Shipment Working Group that aims to achieve zero net deforestation through innovation in the trade finance supply chain. Kai is the Chair of Wells Fargo’s Sustainability Committee in APAC. Kai was born in Germany and has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Bayreuth, and a master’s degree in law from the University of Munich (LMU).}