Jochen Flasbarth is State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany.
Career:
1989 – 1994 Head of the editorial office of the Economica-Verlag publishing house in Bonn
1994 – 2003 Full-time President of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU)
2003 – 2009 Director-General for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
2009 – 2013 President of the Federal Environment Agency
Since Dec. 2013 State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety