Uwe Corsepius

Uwe Corsepius (born 9 August1960 in Berlin ) is, since June 26, 2011 Secretary General of the main legislative body of the European Union, the Council of Ministers. Previously, he headed the department of economic and financial policy in the Federal Chancellery. He is considered the father of the Berlin Declaration.

Life

Uwe Corsepius obtained in 1984 a degree in economics at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. He is regarded as a pupil of the famous economist Horst Steinmann. After receiving his diploma in 1984 Corsepius research at the Kiel Institute of World Economics and received his doctorate in 1989. In 1990 he became an officer in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour. Since 1992 he worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington. From 1994 he was an official in the Berlin Chancellery, first under Helmut Kohl, then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, he became head of the Division 5 ( European politics ) and coordinated unofficially the German policy on Europe Since 2006 he holds the rank of Ministerial Director.

In February 2011, Corsepius successor department manager Jens Weidmann, who became the new Bundesbank president. As the successor of Uwe Corsepius as head of the European Department at the Federal Chancellery Nikolaus Meyer -Landrut was determined.

Already in late 2009 Corsepius among the Heads of State and Government ( Council) has been appointed as the new Secretary General of the Council of the European Union. He joined in 2011 to succeed the Frenchman Pierre de Boissieu. Der Spiegel described the Germans as harshly; he would critically seen in Brussels, because he had " little sense for the interests and needs of others." Since Klaus Welle already is the Secretary General of the European Parliament, 2011, two were German before the administration of the two EU legislative chambers.

Corsepius is married and has two children.