BAFA appoints new vice-president

Germany’s export control regulator, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (‘BAFA’) has announced that it has appointed Dr Andrea Vater to the post of Vice-President. Dr Vater succeeds Mr Bernd Enders, who retired at the end of last year.

According to BAFA, Dr Vater ‘has been a member of the BAFA since 1992 and has been involved in various areas of responsibility of the BAFA, such as export control and energy. In 2014, Dr. Vater took over as head of the central division of the BAFA.’

It says that one of the tasks awaiting her in her new role ‘is the strategic management and stabilization of the Office’s IT infrastructure in the context of IT consolidation and the progressive digitization of the federal government.’