Florian Kohl

- In addition to Mercury Control also sales responsibility for biocides used in Industrial Water Treatment applications across the EU

- Responsible for Sales and new Business Development for Albemarle's Mercury Control technology in Europe - Participation in and presentations at relevant conferences, workshops or seminars across Europe - Advocacy and Public Affairs related to industrial mercury emissions regulation

- Advocacy for the company's products - Outreach to relevant public and private stakeholders - Responsible for and/or contributing to the drafting of various publications - Advice and participation in the development and implementation of advocacy and communication strategies - Representation of the company in industry associations - Regular presentations at conferences and workshops - Monitoring of various relevant EU and national environmental and chemical laws

- Advocacy for the company's products - Outreach to relevant public and private stakeholders - Responsible for and/or contributing to the drafting of various publications - Advice and participation in the development and implementation of advocacy and communication strategies - Representation of the company in industry associations - Regular presentations at conferences and workshops - Monitoring of various relevant EU and national environmental and chemical laws

- International press monitoring about the Galileo satellite navigation system - Helping the Commission to improve its future communication strategy

- Represented VW in conferences on current topics (climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy) and took minutes - Drafted various presentations for the Head of Office on relevant topics (CO2, recycling of waste, emissions, bio fuels) - Weekly monitoring of the EU institutions and translation of documents (German - English - French)

Federal Foreign Office (communication department), Berlin (Germany) - Participated in implementing a new corporate design for German representations abroad - Highlighted embassy reports on the situation in the respective countries - Helped to prepare visit programmes for foreign journalists within the framework of the football world cup in 2006

- Answering incoming questions of citizens - Taking part in various meetings, debates, visits etc.

- Writing press releases and helping to prepare press conferences - Participated in the development of future communication strategies for the city of Cologne - Short-term stay at a private radio station, a public television channel and the city's Office for International Affairs during this time

- Selling and information of financial products and insurances - Taking part in Tecis courses and seminars on (new) financial products etc.

- Journalistic research - Writing own articles

- Helping the teachers with their German and French lessons - Assisting the pupils with their tasks during class

Business Administration with a focus on marketing

Courses on European decision-making, European law, economics, lobbying, European integration theories, presentation and debating skills training

Thesis title: “Nationalism and German Reunification” – Overall grade: cum laude

Academic year in Spain in the framework of the Erasmus exchange program

Including courses on public relations, political PR, crisis communication, journalism, social theories, democracy studies, internat. relations, demography, studies on Turkey and China, European history of the 19th and 20th century, courses in macroeconomics and statistics - overall grade: 1,51 (≈B+)