Education and professional career
Born in Nuremberg on 26 October 1968
| November 2024–present | State secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance |
| January 2022–November 2024 | Federal Chancellery Economic, financial and climate policy advisor to the Federal Chancellor / head of Directorate-General 4 |
| August 2020–December 2021 | Federal Ministry of Finance Head of the directorate for general issues relating to specific sectors of the economy, social welfare state |
| September 2019–August 2020 | Federal Ministry of Finance Head of the division for the environment, sustainability, energy efficiency and telecommunications |
| June 2011– August 2019 | International Monetary Fund Alternative executive director / executive director for Germany |
| May 1999– May 2011 | Federal Ministry of Finance Policy officer for general issues of economic policy / private secretary to a parliamentary state secretary / private secretary to the Minister and head of the Minister’s office / head of the division for the global economy and currency issues |
| November 1994–November 1999 | University of Würzburg Obtained a doctorate in political science with summa cum laude, PhD thesis: “Zwischenstaatliche Finanzzuweisungen im zusammenwachsenden Europa – zur Gestaltung eines Finanzausgleichs für die Europäische Union” (“Intergovernmental fiscal transfers in an increasingly integrated Europe – working towards fiscal equalisation for the European Union”) |
| January 1995– May 1999 | Research assistant at the Chair of Public Finance under Professor Werner Noll in the Department of Economics at the University of Würzburg |
| August 1992– July 1993 | Studied economics at Georgia College & State University, USA |
| October 1988–November 1994 | Studied economics at the University of Würzburg |
| June 1987 | Graduated from secondary school (Rhön-Gymnasium) in Bad Neustadt an der Saale |