Prof Dr Friedbert Pflueger

Prof Pflueger is the Director of the European Centre for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He has previously served as a press secretary to the former German President Richard von Weizsaecker. Further, he was a Member of the German Bundestag (1990-2006), Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on the Affairs of the European Union (1998-2004) and Deputy Minister for Defence in the first Merkel Government

(2005/06). Since September 2009, he is Professor for International Relations at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He is also non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Energy and Environment Program and Senior Advisor to the World Energy Council’s Global Gas Centre. Friedbert Pflueger has his own consultancy in Berlin/Erbil and is Senior Adviser for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. He publishes frequently on current energy and resource security issues.