German Council for Sustainable Development

Katherina Reiche, a university-trained chemist, has been Managing Director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) since 2015. From 2009 to 2013, she was parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. She was subsequently parliamentary state secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Katherina Reiche is Honorary President of the Federal Association of Public Services (bvöd) and of the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public Services (CEEP). She has been a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development since November 2016.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2016: Honorary President of the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public Services (CEEP)
Since 2015: Honorary President of the Federal Association of Public Services (bvöd)
Since 2015: Managing Director and Managing Member of the Executive Committee of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU)
2013 – 2015: Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
1998 – 2015: Member of the German Bundestag
2009 – 2013: Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
2005 – 2009: Deputy Chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, responsible for education and research policy and for the areas environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety
2002: Member of the competence team of chancellor candidate Dr. Edmund Stoiber, responsible for family policy; in the 15th electoral period, chair of the working group on education and research in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group
1997 – 1998: Research assistant at the University of Potsdam
1997: Further study periods at Turku University in Finland
1995 – 1996: Research assistant at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology at Clarkson University, New York
1992 – 1997: Studied Chemistry at the University of Potsdam, obtained a university degree in Chemistry
1992: Obtained ‘Abitur’ (advanced school-leaving certificate) at Luckenwalde Gymasium (grammar school)
16 July 1973: Born in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg

Political career

2000 – 2010 and since 2014: Member of the CDU Federal Executive Committee
Since 2001: Member of the State Executive Committee of the CDU Brandenburg
2008 – 2015: District Chair of the CDU Potsdam

Voluntary work

Member of the non-profit German-US association Atlantik?Brücke

Member of Friends of the Catholic Marian School, Potsdam

Member of the society to support the reconstruction of the Garrison Church in Potsdam

Member of the Board of Trustees of Deutsches Museum, Munich

Deputy Chair of the Public Affairs advisory board at the Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, Berlin

Press photo

This press photo can be used free of charge for media coverage when connected with a copyright note.

© Photo: Verband kommunaler Unternehmen (VKU)

To download the photo in high resolution we recommend to click the link with the right mouse key. The photo file can then be saved to your computer via the context menu “Save target/link as…” (or similar).