Dr. Sonja Optendrenk

impartial chair

Impartial Chair of the Joint Federal Committee (G-BA) and Chair of the Innovation Committee at the G-BA

State Secretary at the Hessian Ministry for Family, the Elderly, Sport, Health and Care, Wiesbaden

Head of the ‘Target Group-Specific Prevention, Non-Communicable Diseases’ Sub-Department, Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin

Head of the ‘Healthcare, Health Insurance’ Department, Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin

Head of the Executive Department, Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin

Head of the ‘Infrastructure Policy, Sustainability’ Unit, Federal Chancellery, Berlin

Head of the ‘Health Policy’ Unit, Federal Chancellery, Berlin

Whilst working | Completion of doctoral thesis: ‘Reforms in the Pharmacy Market: A Regulatory and Political-Economic Analysis’, Dr. rer. pol., University of Trier

Officer in the ‘Health Policy’ Division, Federal Chancellery, Berlin

Adviser in the ‘Medicines Supply in the Statutory Health Insurance Scheme’ Unit, Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin

Research assistant to the Commission of Inquiry on ‘The Future of Care in North Rhine-Westphalia’, Düsseldorf

Government traineeship (preparatory service for the higher general administrative service), State of Berlin

Health Policy Officer, Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Verband forschender Arzneimittelhersteller e.V.), Bonn (2/5 position)

Research assistant at the Chair of ‘Economics, in particular the Economics of Services’, University of Trier (half-time post)

Studied Economics (Dipl.-Volkswirtin), University of Trier