State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Born in Hamburg on 23 September 1970, married, two children
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Year |
Education and professional career |
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1991 - 1997 |
Studied law in Hamburg and Bilbao, Spain; first state examination in law |
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1997 - 2000 |
Research assistant at the University of Hamburg |
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2000 - 2002 |
Legal traineeship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg; second state examination in law |
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2002 - 2005 |
Personal secretary and then chief of staff to the SPD Secretary-General |
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2005 - 2007 |
Chief of staff to the First Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group |
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2007 - 2009 |
Chief of staff and head of policy and planning unit at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs |
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2010 - 2011 |
Director, Office of the International Labour Organization in Germany |
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2011 - 2018 |
State Secretary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Commissioner of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the Federation, to the European Union and for foreign affairs |
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2014 - 2015 |
Chair, Conference of the Länder Ministers for European Affairs |
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2015 - 2018 |
Member of the European Committee of the Regions |
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March 2018 - present |
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance |