Michael Röskau

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Michael Röskau (born February 23, 1942 in Danzig ) is a former German ministerial official .

Life and career

Röskau spent his childhood and school days in Cologne . After his military service in the German Navy , he studied law and political science in Munich, Hamburg, Bordeaux and London .

After passing the second state examination in law , he joined what was then the Federal Ministry of Economics and Finance under Karl Schiller . In 1973 he was sent to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC . In 1974 he was personal advisor to Finance Minister Hans Apel .

From 1975 to 1985 Röskau worked in the economic department of the Federal Chancellery . This included a posting to the International Energy Agency (IEA) of the OECD in Paris (1979-1983).

From 1985 to 1994 he was responsible for international debt issues at the Federal Ministry of Finance . In 1995 he became a sub-department head (Ministerialdirigent) and was among other things head of the inter-ministerial “Working Group for the Introduction of the Euro”. As “Finance Sous- Sherpa ” he was involved in the preparation of the G7 / G8 summits in Cologne (1999) and Okinawa (2000).

In 2001 Röskau went to the OECD in Paris as head of the development policy department (DCD / DAC). Subsequently, from 2007 to 2013 he was director at the Development Bank of the Council of Europe (CEB) in Paris.

Röskau lives in Berlin and Luxembourg .