On August 23, the ACG will host a discussion and reception with Dr. Jens Brandenburg, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research and Member of the German Bundestag (FDP).
For more information, please email events@acgusa.org.
Dr. Jens Brandenburg (2019 ACG Young Leader) has been Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research since December 2021. He has been a Member of the German Bundestag representing the constituency of Rhein-Neckar since 2017. In the 19th legislative term, he was spokesperson of the Free Democratic Party’s Parliamentary Group for vocational training, lifelong learning, and LGBTI rights. He also served as spokesperson of his parliamentary group on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and on the Study Commission “Vocational Training in the Digital Work Environment.”
Dr. Brandenburg has volunteered for better educational opportunities and diversity in society, including on the Board of Trustees of the Deutsche AIDS-Stiftung (since 2019), on the Board of Trustees of the Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld (since 2018), as chairman of the Baden-Württemberg branch of the Young Liberals (2010-2013), in the Free Democratic Party (since 2006), with the Liberal Students Groups from 2005 to 2009, and in the SchLAu information campaign on gender diversity and identity issues at schools in North-Rhine Westphalia (2001-2005). He also spent a year in Little Rock, AR as a high school student.
Dr. Brandenburg has a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Mannheim and an M.A. in Political Science. He finished his Doctorate in 2015 at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim. During his studies he worked at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and in various departments at the University of Mannheim. Prior to becoming a member of the German Bundestag, he worked for a global management consulting firm (2014-2017).