Uwe Corsepius
| Uwe Corsepius | |
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| Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union | |
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In office 26 June 2011 – 1 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre de Boissieu |
| Succeeded by | Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 August 1960 Berlin, Germany |
| Alma mater |
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg University of Kiel |
Uwe Corsepius (born 9 August 1960) was the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union until he was succeeded by Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen.
Uwe Corsepius was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1984 he earned a degree in economics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is regarded as a disciple of the renowned economist Horst Steinmann. He earned his doctorate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft).
In 1990 Corsepius became a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Economy and Labour. From 1992, he worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington. From 1994 he was an official in the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, at first under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, then under successor Gerhard Schröder.
When Chancellor Angela Merkel assumed her office in November 2005, Corsepius was in charge of economic aspects of European integration and was negotiating the EU’s 2007-13 budget. Shortly after, Merkel promoted him to replace Reinhard Silberberg as head of Department 5 (European Policy). Subsequently, Corsepius coordinated the German European policy between 2005 and 2011, including the preparations for Germany’s presidency of the EU in the first half of 2007 as well as the drafting of the Berlin Declaration. From February 2011, he served as interim advisor on economic and financial policy and as G8 sherpa to Merkel, following his predecessor Jens Weidmann's move to become president of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
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