Since 2017
President of the Regional Office in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein

2013 – 2016
Head of the Secretariat for European Affairs

2010 – 2013
Deputy Head of the Secretariat for European Affairs

2006 – 2010
Specialist in the International Monetary and Economic Trends Division and the International and Euro-Area Macroeconomic Analysis Division, Deutsche Bundesbank 

2004 – 2006
Seconded national expert at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission

2004
Division for International Monetary Issues, IMF and Multilateral Development Banks, Deutsche Bundesbank
 
1999 – 2003
Representative of the Deutsche Bundesbank and financial attaché at the German embassy in Rome

1997 – 1999
Office for Monetary Policy Issues, Economics Department, Deutsche Bundesbank

1995 - 1997
Advisor to the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in Brussels

1991 - 1995
European Division, Department for International Monetary Issues, Organisations and Agreements; Deutsche Bundesbank

1996
Awarded doctorate (Dr rer pol) by Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg

1985 -1991
Degree in economics from Heidelberg University and the University of Bonn

1983 -1985
Trainee at Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft AG, Koblenz