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Volker Rieke is Director General of the Directorate General ‘European and International Cooperation in Education and Research’ of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany. He has many years of experience in policy shaping in international and European science cooperation. He was Head of the Directorate general ‘Life Sciences – Research for Health’ (BMBF) and the Division ‘Science, Research and Technology’ at the German Embassy to the United States of America, Washington DC (Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs  2005–2007). Volker Rieke holds a law degree (1991).

Volker Rieke
Volker Rieke