Joachim Wuermeling

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Joachim Wuermeling (born on 19 July 1960 in Münster) is since 19 December 2005, Secretary of State for the European Union in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology.

From 1999 to 2005, he was a Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

During his time in the Parliament, he was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.

[edit] Education

1985: First state law examination
1987: Doctor of law
1989: Second state law examination
1990: Master of comparative, European and international law at the European University Institute in Florence

[edit] Career

since 1996: Lecturer of the University of Duisburg
since 2000: Lawyer
since 1996: Member of the Upper Franconia CSU District Executive
since 1997: Member of the CSU European affairs committee
since 1998: Member of the CSU Party Committee
since 1999: Member of the CSU Policy and Drafting Commissions
since 2000: District Chairman of the Upper Franconia CSU Lawyers
1989-1993: European affairs officer, Bavaria Office, Bonn
1993-1999: Section head, European affairs division, Bavarian State Chancellery, Munich
1999-2005: Member of the European Parliament
1999-2001: Vice-Chairman of the Delegation to Estonia
2002-2004: EPP Deputy coordinator, Committee on Constitutional Affairs
2002-2003: Substitute Member of the European Parliament Delegation to the European Convention
1993-1995: Staff Member of the Commissioner Schmidhuber's private office, Brussels