Since June ‘22 Minister for Federal, European, International Affairs and Media and Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia June ‘17 - June ‘22 Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia 2014 - 2017 Managing Director of the CDU Parliamentary Group in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia 2014 Officer in the Executive Staff of the Federal Ministry of the Interior 2011 - 2014 Officer in the Executive Staff of the Federal Ministry of Defence 2010 - 2011 Officer in the Planning Department of the Hessian State Chancellery 2006 - 2010 Studies in Medieval and Modern History, Political Science and Public Law (Constitutional Law) at the University of Bonn.