Mr Franz Xaver Mauerer — Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, CDU/ CSU, German Bundestag — delivered the Sessional Overview in the Professional Session IV — Second NMF- KAS Symposium.

About the Speaker

Mr. Mauerer is a speaker on EU issues and human rights in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. Since 2011, Mr. Maurer was working as the Embassy Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Association of German Officials Abroad at the Federal Foreign Office and also served as the Advisor for relations with Jordan, the Arab League, Hungary, Austria and the national action plans for Central Europe.

In 2020, Mr. Mauerer shifted from the Federal Foreign Office to CDU/ CSU parliamentary group as the Europe and Human Rights Coordinator. He currently works as a Senior Foreign Policy Adviser at CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.