Prof. Dr. Jürgen Grunwald

Former Director of the European Commission's Legal Service, Brussels

Academic and Professional Career

Education
1967
"Abitur", Secondary School of Johanneum in Lüneburg, Germany
1972
First state examination in law, University of Hamburg, Germany
1973-1974
Teaching assistant, University of Illinois, M.C.L.
1976
Second state examination in law, Hannover, Germany
1991
Doctorate in law, University of Hamburg, Germany

Professional Experience
1976-1979
Legal department, Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn, Germany
1978
Turkish Consortium of the OECD, Paris (secondment)
since 1979
European Commission, Brussels
1979-1981
DG VI-B-1 "Agriculture"
since 1981
Legal Service
1981-1985
Team "Administration, Contracts, Statistics", member of the CCAM
1985-1994
Team "Energy, Research, Steel", member of the CCAM-CCR
1994-1996
Team "Business Law, Intellectual Property, Transport"
1996-1997
Team "Budget, Research, Taxation, Funds"
1997-2002
Assistant to the Director-General (Personnel, Finances, Internal Administration)
2002-2003
Team "Internal Market for Goods, Energy including Euratom, Enterprise, Customs Union, Environment"
since 2003
Principal legal advisor (Director of the team "Budget, Personnel and Budget, Administration and Personnel, Research, Structural Instruments, Taxation, Eurostat")

Academic Activities
since 1989
Visiting lecturer at the Europa-Institut of Saarland University: Course "The European Energy Industry"
1993/94
Guest Professor at the University of Graz, Austria
2004
Honorary Professor at Saarland University

Lecturer for training courses and seminars on European Union law at the:

Federal Academy of Public Administration, Brühl, Germany
Federal Finance Academy, Brühl, Germany
German Judicial Academy, Trier
Agency for Civic Education of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany

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