Support for the project Target and Impact Indicators for Improved Steering of Organic Farming Promotion Policy (ZiWi)
Training / professional career
since November 2021 Senior Fellow at FiBL Germany
2018 - 2021 Head of Department Agricultural Production, Horticulture, Agricultural Policy at BMEL
2010 - 2018 Sub-Department Head Planning, Social Policy, Taxes, IT Officer, Planning Officer at BMEL
Since 1989 at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture BMEL with various areas of responsibility: Development of rural areas, promotion of individual farms, banks and credit, minister's office, reduction of bureaucracy, export promotion, fundamental issues of agricultural policy and political planning
1988 Doctorate on non-marketable services of agriculture, forestry and rural regions
1983 - 1989 Scientific work, collaboration on various projects of the Chair of Regional and Environmental Policy at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, regional development in Central Hesse
1979 - 1983 Studied agricultural sciences at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, graduating as a graduate agricultural engineer in the field of economics and social sciences of agriculture