Leadership of the ministry Jochen Flasbarth

State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Born 4 April 1962 in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Career

since December 2021
State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

2018 to 2021
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

2013 to 2018
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety

2009 to 2013
President of the German Environment Agency

2003 to 2009
Director-General for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

1994 to 2003
President of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU)

1989 to 1994
Head of the editorial office of the Economica publishing house in Bonn

Voluntary involvement

since 2021
Member of the supervisory board of the PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH

since 2017
Chairman of the supervisory board of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE)

since 2016
Member of Agora Verkehrswende

since 2014
Member of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena)

since 2012
Member of Agora Energiewende

2017 to 2018
Managing Director of the Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung mbH (BGZ)

2002 to 2004
Member of the Zukunftsrat (Council for the future) at the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia

2001 to 2003
Member of the Federal Government's Council for Sustainable Development

2000 to 2003
Member of the board of Allianz pro Schiene (Pro Rail Alliance)

1997 to 2003
Chairman of the board of trustees of Stiftung Naturschutzgeschichte (Foundation on the history of nature conservation)

1996 to 1998
Member of the National Committee for Sustainable Development), member of the advisory council to the project „Sustainable Germany“ (Study Commission on Protection of Humanity and the Environment)

1995 to 2003
Member of the main committee/board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Umweltfragen e.V. (AGU)

1994 to 2003
Member of the supervisory board of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy GmbH, member of the advisory council of B.A.U.M.-Environment-Protection-AG and member of the jury for the Commerzbank/Impulse environment award

1993 to 2003
Member of the ZDF television council

since 1993
Member of the board of trustees of the Michael Otto Foundation for Environmental Protection

1992 to 2003
President of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU)

1988 to 2003
Member of the DNR board

1986
Founding board member of Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD, Transport Club Germany)

1985 to 2003
Member of the executive board of the German League for Nature and Environment (DNR)

1980 to 1992
Various functions at NABU, including federal chairman of Naturschutzjugend (German Youth Association for the Protection of Nature); later, member and then vice-president of the NABU board

since 1979
Member of the former German Society for the Protection of Birds (DBV), which later became the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU)