Christoph Kehr-von Plettenberg | Perspective & Dialogue

Perspective & Dialogue

International perspective. Informed dialogue.

Based in Frankfurt, Christoph Kehr-von Plettenberg draws on more than two decades in financial services and a longstanding engagement in foreign policy. As Chair of the DGAP Regional Forum Frankfurt since 2017, he convenes dialogue across business, policy and society.

He is interested in how regulation, capital and geopolitical change affect institutions and societies, and in how Germany positions itself in a changing transatlantic order. He values exchanges with leaders in business, diplomacy and public institutions who approach these questions with a long horizon.

Profile

Christoph Kehr-von Plettenberg has held senior roles in financial services for more than twenty years. He lives in Frankfurt am Main, read law in Rostock, Copenhagen and Cologne, and trained in negotiation and mediation at Harvard Law School.

He has led the DGAP's forums in Frankfurt for more than a decade: the Young DGAP forum from 2014 and, since 2017, the Regional Forum, which brings together some 190 members from business, diplomacy and public life.

Civic Engagement

Christoph Kehr-von Plettenberg has taken on civic responsibility in Frankfurt for more than a decade. From 2015 to 2021 he built up and led a volunteer visiting service against loneliness in old age. During the pandemic he helped organise support for schools, and he has supported a refugee shelter in the city.

Selected press coverage (German)

Außenpolitik näherbringen – Frankfurter Rundschau, 2024

Wärmespender in Corona-Zeit an Schulen – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2020

Ehrenamtliche Seniorenbegleiter in Frankfurt – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2017

Selected conversations

As Chair of the DGAP Regional Forum Frankfurt, he invites speakers and partners and hosts conversations between business, diplomacy and public life.

Climate Policy after Katowice

In 2019, together with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Deutsche Börse Group, he invited Michał Kurtyka, President of the UN Climate Conference COP24, to discuss climate policy after Katowice.

Transatlantic Dialogue with Ben Rhodes

In May 2020, in the early months of the pandemic, he hosted a web talk with Benjamin Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama.

Ukraine and Accountability

In February 2026 he hosted Oleksandra Matviichuk, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022 and Chair of the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, for a lunch discussion at Villa Bonn.