Chair of the Executive Committee: Dr. Rainer Seider


Professional Experience

  • Since 10.2010
    Head of Unit “European and International Co-operation”, Berlin Ministry for Economics, Technology and Research
  • 01.2007 – 09.2010
    Director of the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany for the German-French Cultural Co-operation
  • 01.1997 – 09.2010
    Co-ordinator of the Asia-Pacific Weeks Berlin, Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery
  • 02.2006 – 12.2006
    Deputy Head of Unit “Foreign Affairs”, Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery
  • 03.2001– 01.2006
    Head of Unit “International City Relations and Asia-Pacific Weeks Berlin”, Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery
  • 03.1996 – 02.2001
    Deputy Head of Unit “Economy, Technology and Labour” Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery

Education Background

  • 10.1993
    Second Law Degree
  • 02.1991– 10.1993
    Articled Clerk in Berlin
  • 12.1987– 04.1989
    PhD theses in Political Sciences at the University of Bonn
  • 11.1987
    First Law Degree
  • 10.1982 – 11.1987
    University Studies of Law, Political Sciences and History at the Universities of Bonn and Geneva