Knowledge Based Bio-Economy towards 2020

Mr. Rudolf W. Strohmeier studied laws and economics in Wurzburg and Bonn. After working as assistant teacher at Wurzburg University he joined in 1980 the Bavarian Liason Office to the Federal Gouvernment in Bonn from which he was seconded as national expert to the EU-Commission for nearly 2 years. In 1987 he established the Bavarian Information Office in Bruxelles and became its first director. In the same year he moved back into the EU Commission as member of German Commissioner Peter Schmidhuber's first Cabinet. Having served also in Commissioner Schmidhuber's 2nd and 3rd Cabinet he became Deputy Head of Cabinet of the first Austrian Commissioner, Dr. Franz Fischler. Having worked in DG Agriculture and as Adviser in the Commission President's Cabinet, Italian Prof. Romano Prodi, he became Head of the 2nd Cabinet of Luxembourger Commissioner Viviane Reding. In February 2010 he was nominated as Deputy Director-General of DG Research.    

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Welcome, Conference walking dinner at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts