Dr. Volker Hauff, Chairman of the Council
„Es gibt kein einfaches Rezept für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Der Streit über den richtigen Weg ist unvermeidlich.”
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| 9 August 1940 | Born in Backnang |
| 1959 | Abitur (upper secondary leaving certificate) in Esslingen / Neckar |
| 1959 - 1967 | Studies economics and social science at the Free University of Berlin, including a research semester at the University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, Ph.D. on the use of computers in empirical economic and social research |
| 1967 - 1969 | Head of the Institute of Data Processing and Urban Development |
| 1970 - 1972 | Employee of IBM Germany in Stuttgart |
| 1969 - 1989 | Member of the German Bundestag |
| 1972 - 1974 | Parliamentary undersecretary at the Federal Ministry for Telecommunication, Research and Technology |
| 1974 - 1978 | Parliamentary undersecretary at the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology |
| 1978 - 1980 | Federal Minister for Research and Technology |
| 1980 - 1982 | Federal Minister of Transport |
| 1979 - 1991 | Member of the federal executive committee of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
| 1983 - 1988 | Deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the SPD |
| 1984 - 1987 | member of the UN World Commission on Environment and Development under the chairmanship of Gro Harlem Brundtland |
| 1989 - 1991 | Mayor of Frankfurt / Main |
| 1992 - 1994 | worked for the publishing house Axel Springer Verlag AG |
| 1995 - 1998 | has worked for KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft AG |
| Fully authorized representative for the public sector | |
| 1999 - 2001 | Member of the board of KPMG AG Public Sector |
| until 2004 | Senior Vice President of BearingPoint GmbH |
| 2005 - 2008 | Member of the supervisory board of BearingPoint GmbH |
| Since Sept. 2001 | Chairman of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) |
| Since 1967 | married with Ursula Irion-Hauff |
| Two sons: Matthias and Tadeusz | |
| Knowledge of languages | English (fluent), Italian (colloquial language), French (basic knowledge) |
| Further activities: | Author of specialized books on data processing, technology, energy, environment, land law and the modernisation of economy |
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