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Permanent Secretary Britta Behrendt, LL.M. (Cape Town)

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Permanent Secretary for Climate Protection and the Environment

since April 28, 2023

Permanent Secretary for Climate Protection and the Environment Berlin
2014 – 2023
Federal Ministry of the Interior
- Head of staff “Admission Ukraine”, 2022 – 2023
- Head of Staff “Flood Relief”, 2021 – 2022
- Head of the policy division DV1, 2021
- Head of the policy division M1, 2018 – 2021
- Division R1, 2016 – 2018
- Liaison officer for the Italian Ministry of the Interior, 2015 – 2016
- Office of the Minister, 2014 – 2015
2011 – 2014
Federal Ministry of Defence
- Speech writer to the Minister
- Personal assistant to the Minister
2008 – 2011
Federal Ministry of the Interior
- Division G11
- Speech writer to the Minister
2004 – 2008

Research assistant, German Bundestag
2001 – 2003

Legal intern, Superior Court of Justice

2003

Second State Examination in Law
2000 – 2001

Master in Commercial Law (LL.M.), UCT Cape Town
2000

First State Examination in Law
1994 – 2000

Law studies, Saarland University, University of Pisa, Humboldt University Berlin