Interlocutor on all aspects of the guidelines and regulations of the organic agriculture and food industry
Coaching on stakeholder management in the context of organic legislation and quality assurance
Exchange on positioning issues of FiBL Germany in the context of PPP trace detections along the organic value chain
Training / professional career
since November 2021 Senior Fellow at FiBL Germany
since April 2021 Member of the Board of the Alanus Foundation, Alfter
Since January 2021 Training instructor at Alnatura Produktions- und Handels GmbH and internal consultant on We Care, on rules and guidelines relating to organic products and on teaching philosophical principles
since April 2000 Employee at Alnatura with responsibility for setting up and managing the Quality Management department until the end of 2020
from February 1987 to March 2000 coordination and management of the then organic umbrella organisation in Germany, AGÖL e.V., and representation of the German organic farming organisations in the IFOAM EU Group
From November 1983 to December 1986, agricultural science work in the field of animal breeding with doctorate (Dr. sc. agr.) at the University of Kiel.
From October 1978 to October 1983, agricultural studies at the University of Göttingen, the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and Colorado State University in Fort Collins (USA), Diploma (Dipl.-Ing. agr.) from the TUB in October 1983.
Various publications on topics of organic agriculture and food management as well as - together with Hanspeter Schmidt, lawyer - on the EU Organic Regulation
