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Prof. Joachim Bitterlich
Executive Vice President of International Affairs, Chairman Germany of Veolia Environment
Ambassador (ret), Executive Vice President International Affairs Veolia Environnement Paris, Chairman Veolia Environnement Germany
Born July 10, 1948, at Saarbrücken-Dudweiler, Germany
Studies of law, Economics and Politics at the University of Saarbrücken, Studies at the French National School of Administration (ENA) in Paris (1974-75).
1976 Federal Foreign Office, posted to Algiers (1978-81) and Brussels (Permanent Representation to the EC –1981-85). Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1985-87)
Head of the European Policy Department at the Federal Chancellor’s Office (1987-93);Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1993-98)
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO (1998-99), Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Spain (1999-2002)
17 February 2003 - today: Executive Vice President International Affairs Veolia Environnement Paris, Chairman Veolia Environnement Germany (since May 2009)
Member of the Board of Administration of Veolia Environmental Services and of Veolia Transport, Paris, of the Presidential Board of DEKRA e.V., Stuttgart.
Member of the Board of Administration of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris/Strasbourg, of MEDEF International, Paris, of the Commission “Europe” of MEDEF; Vice President of the Committee France-China.
Vice-President of the Association “Notre Europe”, Paris; member of the Board of Trustees of « Friends of Europe » Brussels.
Professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP-EAP)
Co-Founder and Co-President “Club Rhénan” Paris
Numerous publications (among others “Europa – mission impossible?” Düsseldorf and Paris 2005; Co-author of "EU- and EC Treaty – Commentary", edited by Prof. Dr. Carl-Otto Lenz, and Prof. Dr Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - 2nd to 5th edition Cologne 2010)