About me – All Around The World

Over 40 years of broad experience:

1984- 1988 Professor Chemistry Department Addis Ababa University
1991-1997 Member Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB)
2001-2003 Pre Accession Advisor at the Bulgarian Government
2005- 2006 Speaker Government Advisory Consultative Group at UNEP Dams and Development Project
2006-2012 Bundesratsbeauftragter für Hochwasserrisikomanagement
2003- 2020 Head of Division Surface Waters Flood Protection Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture
- 2012: Key Note Speaker: „Hochwasser-Strategie des Freistaat Sachsens“ at seminar “ „10 Jahre nach der Elbeflut: Verbessertes Hochwasserrisikomanagement durch EU-Recht?“
- 2019: Key Note Speaker „Fernerkundung im Katastrophenfall mit dem Erdbeobachtungsprogramm „COPERNICUS„ at the conference „Gefahrenabwehr im Klimawandel – wie handle ich richtig?“
- June 20: Anhörung Umweltausschuss zu Auswirkungen des Kohleausstiegs (Structural change in lignite mining)

LAWA (Bund-Länder-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser)
- Chairman of permanent working group „Surface Waters and Coastal Waters“
- Standing committee for Flood Protection and Hydrology
IKSE (INTERNATIONALE KOMMISSION ZUM SCHUTZ DER ELBE)
WGFP (European commission working group floods)

Professor Environmental Technologies in the Water Sector University of Applied Science Dresden (HTW)
Chairman and Member of Committees and Working Groups in the Water Sector on International and National Level
Broad Experiences in Strategic Planning, Disaster Management and Comprehensive Operation Planning