Armin Laschet, Senior Associate

born 1961 in Aachen, was Minister for Generations, Women and Integration of the Government of Northrine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2010. Studies in law and politics at the universities of Munich and Bonn. Training as a journalist, freelance journalistic work, then active as academic adviser, editor in chief and director of a publishing house. Since 1999 lecturer on postgraduate European Studies course at the Technical University of Aachen. Member of the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU), there active in several positions, among them chairman of the CDU federal committee on development policy. 1994-1998 member of the German parliament. 1999-2005 member of the European Parliament and there member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Board member of the German United Nations Association. He has been a supporter of KDUN since 2004.