Werner HOYER

President of the European Investment Bank and Chairman of its Board of Directors

Professional background

• Since 1 January 2012: President of the European Investment Bank and Chairman of its Board of Directors
• 2009-2011: Minister of State (Deputy Foreign Minister) at the German Foreign Office, responsible for Political and Security Affairs, European Affairs, United Nations and Arms Control; Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation
• 2002-2009: Deputy Chairman and Foreign Affairs Spokesman of the FDP (Free Democratic Party) parliamentary group
• 2000-2005: President of the European Liberal Democratic Reform Party (ELDR), Brussels
• 1994-1998: Minister of State (Deputy Foreign Minister) at the Foreign Office
• 1993-1994: Secretary General of the FDP
• 1990-1994 (and from 1999-2009): Deputy Chairman of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group
• 1990-1994: Security Policy Spokesman of the FDP Parliamentary Group
• 1989-1993: Whip of the FDP Parliamentary Group
• 1987-2011: Member of the German Bundestag
• 1985-1987: Director of the Economics and Information Department of the Carl Duisberg Society, Cologne
• 1978-1993: Associate lecturer in international economic relations at Cologne University
• 1974-1984: Senior research assistant in economics at Cologne University

Education

• 1978: PhD in economics (Cologne University; research at UCLA)
• 1970-1974: Diploma in economics (Cologne University)