University of Cologne (Doctor Juris). Spoken languages: English, French and Italian.
Worked at Wessing Berenberg-Gossler Zimmermann Lange (Dusseldorf) specializing in European Law, Commercial, Corporate, Civil Law. Admitted to the bar, 1996, Germany. Assistant Lecturer at the University of Cologne.
Author: "Diskriminierungsund Beschränkungsverbot im Rahmen der gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit" (Prohibition of Discrimination and Restriction of the Free Movement of Workers in the European Community), 1996.