Studies: Economics, University of Bielefeld.
Degrees: Diploma in Economics, University of Bielefeld, 1983; PhD "The progressive nursing care insurance", 1989.
Current Position: Head of the Department for "Research and Development" at the German Federal Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund), since 2010.
Past Positions: Joined the Federal Insurance Institution for Employees (Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte, BfA), 1988; first as a consultant, Policy Department; Head of Department "Questions of Social Security Development", 1993; Head of Department "Questions of Social Security and Old-Age Provision", German Federal Pension Insurance, 2005.
Other positions: Lectureship at various universities including the Technical University Berlin; member of the advisory council of the journal "Sozialer Fortschritt" ("Social Progress").
Main Areas of Research: Conceptual development of instruments of social policy in the area of old-age provision, Distribution analysis of old-age provision, especially national pension insurance.
