Speaker

Dr Anna Christmann

Commissioner of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action for the Digital Economy and Startups
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Dr Anna Christmann

Since 27 January 2022 - Commissioner of BMWK for the Digital Economy and Startups 

As of 5 January 2022 - Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy 

Since 2017 - Member of the German Bundestag 

2013 -2017 - Head of Office for the Minister and policy officer for fundamental policy issues in science policy at the Ministry for Science, Stuttgart 

2008 – 2013 - Academic working for various women’s networks and mentoring programmes, and at the Centre for Democracy at Zurich University 

2008 - Part of the constituency staff at the office of Theresia Bauer, Member of the State Parliament 

2003 - Member of ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS 

2002 - 2008 - Student of political sciences, economics and mathematics (Heidelberg) 

2008 - 2013 - Doctoral thesis on ‘The limits of direct democracy’ at Bern University and the University of California