• 2010 to present Consultant, European Social Policy and Public Health Care Strategies (EuSoPo)
• 2009 - 1994
• Member of European Parliament, Brussels / Strasbourg
• Member in the Committee for Public Health
• Member in the Committee for Employment and Social Affairs
• Standing Rapporteur of the European Parliament on Breast Cancer

• 1994 - 1987 Director of the Regional Representation of the German State of Bremen at the EU, Brussels
• 1987 - 1986 Ministry of the Prime Minister’s office of the German State of Northrhein-Westfalia, Department of European Affairs, Düsseldorf
• 1986 - 1983 Director of the Governmental Department for the Special Cultural Relations between Germany and France, Bonn
• 1983 - 1980 Press officer of the Minister for Federal Affairs of the German State of Bremen, Bonn
• 1980 - 1978 Editor of the German Trade Union for Public Services and Transport Stuttgart
• 1978 - 1976 Free lance Journalist, Heidelberg / Mannheim /Ludwigshafen
• 1977 - 1975 Assistant-Professor, University of Mannheim

• 1977 M.A. in History and in Political Sciences (Staatsexamen)
• 1980 M.A. in Slavic Languages

• 2011 - 2009 Member of the National Board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
• Since 2008 Member of the Advisory Board for the German Public Television (ARD)

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