Friedbert Pflüger

Friedbert Pflüger (born March 6, 1955) is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Today, he is a Visiting Professor of International Relations and Director of the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King's College London. Friedbert Pflüger is also managing partner of two business consultancies in Berlin and Arbil (Iraqi-Kurdistan). He is chairman of the Internet Economy Foundation (IE.F), launched in April 2016. Pflüger was a Member of the German Parliament 1990-2006, serving as chairman of the Bundestag's EU-committee (1998–2002) and as foreign policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group (2002–2005). He was Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Defence (2005–2006), and the CDU's candidate for Governing Mayor of Berlin in the Berlin state election, 2006. He was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives (2006–2011) and a member of the executive board of the CDU (2000-2010).

Friedbert Pflüger was born in Hanover. He received his Abitur (university entrance qualification) at Friedrich Schiller High School in Hanover in 1973. He studied political science, public and constitutional law and economics in Göttingen, Bonn and at Harvard. He received his Master of Arts degree in 1980 and in 1982 his Dr. phil. degree. His doctoral thesis was directed by Karl Dietrich Bracher and examined US-foreign policy "between idealism and realism". In 1980/81, he was a graduate student associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs (CFIA) under the auspices of Prof. Samuel Huntington. He also taught a seminar on US-human rights policy at Harvard.

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