Dr. Gerd Müller has been Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2013. Previously, as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, he was responsible, among other things, for the areas of international relations, development projects and world food affairs. The political career of the former policy officier at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs began in 1989, when Dr. Müller assumed the office of Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU Group in the European Parliament. From 1994, he represented the electoral districts of Kempten, Oberallgäu and Lindau in the German Bundestag as its directly elected Member of Parliament. Dr. Müller was subsequently the spokesman of the group of parliamentarians from the CSU in the German Bundestag for foreign affairs, European policy and development policy as well as a member of the European, Foreign and Defense Committee until 2005. © Bundesentwicklungsminister Gerd Mueller, CSU, aufgenommen im Rahmen eines Interviews. Berlin, 14.01.2020. Copyright: Janine Schmitz/ photothek.net

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