Michael Mertes

Michael Mertes is State Secretary, Commissioner for Federal, European and Foreign Affairs, State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an author and former partner at dimap consult, a commercial think-tank based in Bonn and Berlin. Mertes was a senior speechwriter and director general for social and political analyses and cultural affairs for Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1987 to 1998. He was foreign editor of the German weekly Rheinischer Merkur. (2006)

Events

February 5, 2003 

November 16, 2004

November 15, 2006