Herwig Schlögl

Mr. Herwig Schlögl is Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD on 1 July 1998. His special responsibilities are Trade, Science, Technology and Industry, and Agriculture.

Prior to taking up his duties at OECD Mr. Schlögl was the Deputy Director General for Trade Policy in the German Ministry of Economics, Bonn. Mr. Schlögl has thirty years of government experience in trade, competition and industrial policy issues.

After studying law and economics at Marburg University, Mr. Schlögl received a PHD in economics in 1969. That same year, he joined the German Ministry of Economics. Four years later he joined the German-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. He returned to the Ministry of Economics in 1980. In his capacity as Deputy Director-General for Trade Policy he served also as Head of Delegation to regular bilateral economic consultations with the US, Latin American and Asian governments.