Christian Weber

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Christian Weber
Since 2009 Christian Weber is Executive Director of the State of Bavaria Mexico Office. Before that he was Managing Director of Invest Bavaria, the Agency of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and was responsible for the promotion and attraction of investment. Apart from supporting and assisting investors, he attended Public Relations, Marketing Strategies, the Bavarian Cluster Initiative and the cooperation with the regional and local level.

Mr. Weber was part of cooperation projects with Mexico by his former activities as the Technische Universität München (TUM) in 2002. As Lecturer and Project Manager at the Geographic Institute he was engaged with topics related to development and environment, as well as regional studies with a special focus on Bavaria, the Alps and Mexico. In cooperation with Prof. Gerhard Sommerhof, Christian Weber wrote a regional geography about Mexico, published in 1999.

Before and besides his activities at the TUM, Mr. Weber worked for a Member of the German Federal Parliament in the Electoral District in Public Relations. He acquired there professional experience in regional planning, economic promotion and in the German Federal Armed Forces where he was trained to be a Reserve Officer. He studied Geography, Law and Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) and the Technische Universität München in Munich. His special interest is to promote the development of the net of relations of Bavaria and Mexico.

Mr. Weber was born 1964 in Freising. He is married with a Mexican.

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