Levin Holle was born in 1967, studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Göttingen, and holds a doctorate in law. In the period from 1994 to 1996, he completed his practical legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin, with stations in South Africa and the United States.

After graduating, Levin Holle began his engagement of almost 15 years at the Boston Consulting Group. The various positions he held at the company took him from the Düsseldorf office via Hong Kong and Warsaw to Berlin. He later assumed leadership of the Berlin office as Senior Partner and Managing Director. He focused on managing large transformation projects in the financial sector and the financial operations of corporations.

At the beginning of 2012, he was appointed Director General for Financial Markets Policy at the German Federal Ministry of Finance. His responsibilities there included national and European financial market regulation, federal debt management and the supervision of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and the federal financial institutions including the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG from the beginning of 2018 until his appointment to the Management Board.

Levin Holle is married and has four children.