Christian Wulff

President (2010-2012)

Federal Republic of Germany, Germany

As former Federal President of Germany (2010-2012) Christian Wulff is dedicated to the
cause of the integration of people with a migration background and to interreligious dialogue.
He is Chairman of the Foundation Board of Germany´s Integration Foundation, Honorary
President of Euro-Mediterranean-Arab Association (EMA) and Global Chairman of GASME
(Global Alliance of small and midsize enterprises). He regularly represents Germany at the
international level.
He is President of the German Choir Association and member of the Transatlantic Council
on Migration. He acts as a patron of German Multiple Sklerosis Society. Christian Wulff is
member of the board of trustees of Felix-Nussbaum-Foundation and
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation.
As honorary doctor of different universities, such as the Tongji-University in Shanghai and
the University of Tsukuba in Japan, he also works to foster Germany’s relationship to Asia.
He is a guest professor in political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Christian Wulff was awarded the Helga and Edzard Reuter Foundation prize in 2020. He was
honored by the Turkish Community in Germany and received the Award of Tolerance of the
Protestant Academy Tutzing in 2014. In 2011, the Central Council of Jews in Germany
honored him with the Leo Baeck Award.
From 1998-2010 Christian Wulff was deputy chairman of the CDU. From 2003-2010 he was
Prime Minister of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). Prior to that he was the head of the
parliamentary group of the Christian Democrats in Niedersachsen.
Christian Wulff was born in 1959 and works as a lawyer at the chambers Wulff & Coll. in
Hamburg.