Thomas Gambke

Thomas Gambke (16 October 1949 in Rimsting) is a German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens). Gambke has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009.

Professional Career

Gambke has been a member of the Greens since 2004. Gambke has been a member of the Bavarian Working Group of the Greens Business & Finance since 2005 and in 2008 he was elected as Speaker of the group. In 2009 Gambke was elected to the Bundestag. In the Bundestag, he has been a member of the finance committee of the Bundestag and in the Enquete Commission on "Growth, prosperity , quality of life ". He is deputy member of the Committee on Economics and Technology and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. Moreover Gambke is Chairman of the ASEAN Parliamentary Group of the German Bundestag.

Education

Gambke attended elementary school and high school in Bonn. In 1976 he graduated in Physics from the TU Darmstad and in 1981 he received the doctor title. Then he worked at the University of California at San Diego. From 1982 he then worked as a technology consultant at the VDI Technology Center in Berlin. In 1990 he took over the commercial management of the power plant in Landshut. There Gambke was responsible for operation , the internationalization of the business of Landshut. Thomas Gambke founded in 2006 with other partners MSG Lithoglas AG in Berlin. This company has gone into the MSG Lithoglas GmbH, based in Dresden. Thomas Gambke is currently a member of the advisory board of this company.

Further Information

http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete18/biografien/G/gambke_thomas/258416

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWpo1TSocs Ecological and Social Transformation of the Society as an Engine for Sustainable Growth, a lecture by Dr. Thomas Gambke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0s8VvyNGM An interview with Dr Thomas Gambke (MdB)