Udo Di Fabio (born 26 March 1954, in

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) is a German

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. He is a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Germany's highest court, where he served as a member of the Second Senate from December 1999 until December 2011.

Biography

In 1970 Di Fabio began as a local government official in middle service in

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. He completed his secondary school diploma and then studied law at the

Ruhr University The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction beg ...

in Bochum as well as social sciences at the University of Duisburg (now University of Duisburg-Essen). After completing the two state examinations in law in 1982 and 1985, Di Fabio was a judge at the

Social Court. In 1986 he worked as a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (scientific assistant) at the Institute for Public Law at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. In 1987, he achieved there his dissertation , followed by a doctorate in the subject of social sciences in 1990. He completed his habilitation in 1993. Then he was appointed university professor for public law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, followed by a call to the

University of Trier The University of Trier (german: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 y ...

. From 1997 to 2003 Di Fabio was Professor of Public Law at the

Ludwig Maximilians University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operati ...

in Munich, since 2003 he has been Professor for Public Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. From 1999 to 2011 he was Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court. In 2011, he was holder of the Mercator professorship at the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

. In April 2020, Di Fabio was appointed by

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Armin Laschet of

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to a 12-member expert group to advise on economic and social consequences of the

COVID-19 pandemic in Germany The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria. By mid February, the arising cluster of cases had been fully conta ...

Other activities

* Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees * German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Member of the Council * Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees * Vodafone Germany Foundation, Member of the Advisory Board * Foundation for Family Businesses, Member of Board of Trustees * German Reference Centre (DRZE), Member of the Board of Trustees

Personal life

Di Fabio is married, has four children and lives in Bonn.CV Di Fabio
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

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