Winfried Ventker
Education: State Diploma in law granted by the Hanseatic High Court of Hamburg.
Career as a Civil Servant in the MOD and associate organizations, predominently in the domaine of procurement including among other posts as Chief, Contracts and Finance in the Bureau des Programmes Franco- Allemand (BPFA), Paris, as Chief, Procurement Division of NAMSA, Luxemburg, as First Counsellor to the German Representative to NATO and NATO National Armaments Director’s Representative. Other roles have includet Chairmanship of the WEAG Staff Group and finally Responsibility for Armaments and Logistics in the „Planungsstab“ of the Minister of Defence.
After retirement in 2004 he joined a law office as a barrister and became a member of the European Bar Association.