Herman Ott

Bio

Curriculum Vitae

from 09/2009 Member of the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)

Climate Policy Spokesman of the Alliance 90/The Greens party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

05/2004 – 09/2009 Head of the Berlin Office, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

07/2001 Director of the Department Climate Policy, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

2001 – 2007 Member of the Supervisory Board, Greenpeace Germany

11/2000 – 06/2001 Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

from 1999 Member of the Alliance 90/The Greens party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

11/1998 Co-Director, Department Climate Policy, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

02/1997 Dr. iur., Free University Berlin

04/1994 Project Co-ordinator, Department Climate Policy, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

1992 – 1994 Advocate, Assistant of Advovates Becker and Geulen, Berlin

01/1992 Second and final State Exam (Bar Exam)

08/1991 – 10/1991 Advocates Schily, Becker, Geulen, Berlin

05/1991 – 07/1991 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Ozone Secretariat, Nairobi

11/1990 – 04/1991 Advocates Schily, Becker, Geulen, Berlin

03/1990 – 07/1990 Commission of the European Communities, Legal Service, Équipe Environnement, Brussels

1989 – 1992 Obligatory training scheme for lawyers (Referendariat). Stages dealing with environmental and international law are listed above

1988 – 1990 Research and Teaching Assistant with Prof. Kunig, Institute for Constitutional, Administrative and International Public Law including Environmental Law, Free University of Berlin

07/1988 First State Exam (1. Staatsexamen)

1985 – 1988 Studies in Law and Politics, Free University Berlin

1984 – 1985 Studies in Law and Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

1982 – 1984 Studies in Law, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich