Deputy Head, Division ‘International Investment, Debt rescheduling, Development banks’, Directorate-General for External Economic Policy, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin. His professional responsibilities include - inter alia - the negotiating of Bilateral Investment Treaties on behalf of the German Federal Government. - In the Spring 2009 term, he will be a Global Fellow and Visiting Scholar from Government at New York University School of Law, where he will research “Globalization and International Investment Law”.
Mr. Braun gained his First State Exam in Law [J.D. equivalent] from University of Heidelberg as a scholar of the German National Scholarship Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and his Second State Exam in Law [Bar exam equivalent] in Munich. Since 1995 he has been working for the German Federal Ministry of Economics: Directorate-General for Economic Policy, Bonn; leave of absence to study for Master's Degree at Harvard University (‘Master of Public Administration’ / J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Cambridge / USA; Assistant to the Special Representative of the German Chancellor for negotiations on compensations for former slave laborers, Count Lambsdorff, Berlin / Washington; Parliamentary Adviser, FDP Caucus in the German Bundestag, Berlin; since 2003 returned to the Federal Ministry of Economics, Directorate-General for External Economic Policy.
Mr. Braun has published and lectured on International Investment Law and on Germany's Bilateral Investment Treaties, inter alia:
- “The New German-Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaty—A Commentary and Evaluation in Light of the Development of Investment Protection under Public International Law”, ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal Fall 2007, p. 1-22 (joint publication with P. Schonard) bzw. “Der neue deutsch-chinesische Investitionsförderungs- und -schutzvertrag“, Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft 2007, 561-569 (joint publication with P. Schonard).
- “Investment Protection under WTO Law—New Developments in the Aftermath of Cancún”, Beiträge zum Transnationalen Wirtschaftsrecht, 2004, Paper 28, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2004, available at: http://www2.jura.uni-halle.de/telc/ publikationen.html bzw. „Multilaterales Investitionsschutzabkommen - Perspektiven nach Cancún“, in: Steinmann, Höhne, Stoll (hrsg.): Die WTO vor neuen Herausforderungen, Tagungsband des 5. Graduiertentreffens im Internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht in Göttingen, 2005.
