Curriculum Vitae

EPP-Coordinator for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). Substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT). Member of the Delegation for Relations with the United States and substitute member of the Delegation for relations with Israel as well as substitute member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

Vice Chairman of the SEDE Committee (Subcommittee on Security and Defence) and Co-coordinator for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the United States (2017-2019). Chairman of the European Parliament intergroup “Cultural and Creative Industries”.

Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the United States

Member of the Board of the parliamentary group EPP (European People’s Party)

Deputy Chairman of the German parliamentary group CDU/CSU in the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

Member of the Board of the CDU in Brandenburg

Regional Chairman of the MIT (Association for Medium-sized Companies and the Economy) of the CDU in Brandenburg Managing Director of ‘co:bios Technologiezentrum GmbH’ in Hennigsdorf, Germany (formerly Biotech GmbH)

Member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg; spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group for economy and technology matters

Managing Director of the project corporation ‘Bahnerprobungs- und Technologiezentrum Berlin/Brandenburg GmbH’

Managing Partner of ‘WISO Institut’ (Institute for Economic and Social Research)

Staff member/project manager and later Managing Director of the Aigner Group in Brandenburg

Intern in the office of the Member of the German Parliament, Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff

Graduation to Dr. rer. Pol. (Doctor in law and political science) at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Subject: US trade politics

University studies in national economy at the American University in Washington D.C. Scientific staff member in the office of the Republican Senator John Heinz for the Financial Committee and the Subcommittee on Trade in the Senate of the US Congress

University studies in journalism, politics and political economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU)

Training course at the ‘Deutsche Journalistenschule’ (German school for Journalists) in Munich

Abitur (equivalent to UK A-levels or US AP tests) at the ‘Staatliche Landschulheim’ in Marquartstein/Bayern