Gerhard Stahl

Who is Gerhard Stahl?

Gerhard Stahl was an EU Official, the former Secretary-General of the Committee of the regions of the European Union.

He was educated in his home city and went on to graduate in economics at the Technical University in Berlin, where he had his first professional post as an assistant to the chair of public finance. He then spent three years working as an economist at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn.

He also worked in the European Parliament and on the regional level in Schleswig-Holstein at the Ministry for Economics, Transport and Research and later on as Director-General for European and International Affairs at the Ministry for European and Federal Affairs. In this role, he specialised in EU policy preparation for the Bundesrat, the German legislative second chamber, and inter-regional cooperation projects.

From 1995-1999, Stahl was a Member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for Regional Policy Dr Monika Wulf-Mathies.

From 1999-2002, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet for Pedro Solbes, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs.