• High Resolution

Alternate on the EIB's Board of Directors

Ministerialdirektor

• Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
  Scharnhorststr. 34-37
  D-10115
  Berlin
  Germany
• karl.brauner@bmwa.bund.de
• +49 30 20 14 76 80
• +49 30 20 14 54 78

Curriculum Vitae

Born on May 21, 1952 in Radewege near Berlin;

Raised in Gummersbach (North-Rhine/Westphalia)

Married, 2 children

Education

- Law at Bielefeld University

- First state exam

- Law at Cambridge University (UK)

- Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

- 2^nd state exam Düsseldorf

- Doctorate with dissertation on comparative law.

Professional Experience

- Academic assistant in Law Department at Bielefeld University

- Assistant to professorial chair in Civil Law

- Admission to German Bar for the practice of Civil Law

- Since 1983: employed by German Ministry of Economics, serving in the central legal division and budget division, also, responsibilities undertaken on behalf of Parliamentary State Secretary and Minister

- August 1999 to August 2001: Director of Central Administration

- Since August 2001: Deputy Trade Minister

Experience Abroad

1977/78: Cambridge University

1980: German-Greek Chamber of Commerce (legal internship)

1986/87: German UN Mission in New York

January 1991 to June 1995: German Chamber of Commerce in Sydney