Lawyer since 1988

Studied law in Tübingen and Göttingen (1987 Dr. jur.)

1988 Assistant to the Board of Management of Allianz Lebensversicherung AG
1990 – 1992 Expanded and headed the Corporate Clients department at Allianz Lebensversicherung AG  
1992 – 2002 Executive Director of the German Foundation for World Population
2003 Director of the European Center for Population and Development
2004 Head of Administration and Finance at the Volkswagen Foundation
2005 – 2015 Secretary General of the Association of German Foundations
Joined Flick Gocke Schaumburg in 2016

Head of the Advisory Council of the Heinz Trox Foundation
Head of the Advisory Council of the Berlin-Institut
Head of the Advisory Council of Fox & Fox Foundation
Chairman of the Board of the Thomas Haase Foundation
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Chancenwerk e.V.
Head of the Working Group of Corporate Investment Foundations in the Federal Association of German Foundations
Co-publisher of the FoundationManager

Honorary Professor at the University of Hildesheim
Lecturer in foundation law and management at the ESV-Akademie, Berlin