Thomas Heilmann
Abitur at Dortmund City High School; 1985 to 1989 law studies in Bonn and Munich with semester abroad in Harvard; second state law examination; 1990 to 1993 legal traineeship in Munich with work as freelance journalist for, among others for the FAZ and Tagesthemen; longer periods at the management consultancy McKinsey in Munich and the marketing department of Lufthansa in New York; since 1990 co-founder, start-up financier and small shareholder of various start-ups - including mytoys, Xing, Pixelpark and Facebook; 1998 visiting professor at the University of the Arts; in 1999 appointed by Angela Merkel as honorary Internet representative of the CDU; Appointed to the Board of Save the Children Germany in 2009 and elected Chairman in 2010; Chairman of the CDU in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf since 2013; Senator for Justice and Consumer Protection in the State of Berlin from 2012 to 2016; first German Non-Executive Director on the Board of Save the Children International since 2016; Member of the German Bundestag since 2017.