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Speaker Biography

Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann

Minister for Economy, Science and Digitalization of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann was born on January 13, 1963 in Dinslaken, Germany. He is married and father of two children. From 1982 to 1990 he studied law, economics and history at the Universities of Mainz, Munich (LMU) and Cologne.
From 1994 to 1999 Willingmann was a legal assessor in a law firm in Rostock and Berlin as well as a research assistant at the University of Rostock. In 1998 he obtained his doctorate iuris from the University of Rostock.
From 1999 to 2003 he was professor for German, European and International business law at the Harz University of Applied Sciences. From 2003 to 2016 Prof. Dr. Willingmann Rector of the Harz University of Applied Sciences and from 2008 to 2016 President of the State Rectors’ Conference of Saxony-Anhalt. In May 2016 he was appointed State Secretary and in November 2016 Minister in the Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitalization. Armin Willingmann has been a member of the SPD since 2008.

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