Curriculum Vitae Dr Thomas Mirow

6 January 1953 Born in

June 1970 Abitur (school leaving certificate)

1970 to 1975 Political Science, Social Sciences and Romance Studies in Bonn Doctoral thesis on France’s policy on Europe during the Fifth Republic

1975 to 1983 Assistant and subsequently Chef de Cabinet of SPD Chairman and former Chancellor Willy Brandt 1983 to 1987 Director of the Hamburg Press Office 1988 to 1991 Political and management consultant 1991 to 1993 State Minister and Head of the Chancellery, Hamburg 1993 to 1997 State Minister for Urban Development and Head of the Chancellery, Hamburg

1997 to 2001 State Minister for Economics, Hamburg, and inter alia • Chairman of the supervisory board, Hamburger Hafen- und Lagerhaus AG (Hamburg Port) • Chairman of the supervisory board, Flughafen Hamburg GmbH (Airport Hamburg) • Member of the supervisory board, Daimler Chrysler Luft- und Raumfahrtholding (Daimler Chrysler Aerospace Holding) • Member of the administrative council, Hamburgische Landesbank • Member of the board of supervisory directors, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau

Feb. 2002 to March 2005 Senior advisor and manager, in particular: • Senior Advisor, Ernst & Young AG • Advisor to the MM Warburg Bank • Managing Director, Alstertor Schienenlogistik Beteilig. GmbH

2004 Member of the ’s High-level Group on the Lisbon Strategy chaired by former Dutch Prime Minister 2005 Personal Representative of the Federal Chancellor for the Lisbon Strategy and Director-General for Economic Policy in the Federal Chancellery Since Nov. 2005 State Secretary, federal ministry of Finance, responsible inter alia for: • National and international financial market policy, including G7/G8, G20, international financial institutions and multilateral development banks • European policy • Fiscal policy and macroeconomic affairs and • Alternate Governor, • Alternate Governor, EBRD • Member of the supervisory board, Deutsche Telekom AG (since Jan. 2006) • Chairman of the administrative council, Bafin (Financial Supervisory Authority, since Jan. 2006)

Foreign languages: Fluent English and French

Married to Barbara Mirow, journalist, two daughters (born in 1984 and 1990)

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