Bernhard Müller-Härlin

Bernhard Müller-Härlin holds the position of Senior Manager Security and Defence at the German Electro and Digital Industry Association (ZVEI e. V.) and is responsible for ZVEI’s Security and Defence Platform. After studying in Leipzig and Heidelberg, he earned a Master’s degree in International Relations, specialising in conflicts and security, from Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques). From 2007 to 2016, he worked in the International Relations Department of the Körber Foundation in Berlin where he established, among other things, the annual Berlin Foreign Policy Forum. In 2017, he moved to the German Bundestag as Head of Office to the Deputy Chairman of the FDP Parliamentary Group, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff. From 2021 to spring 2025, he headed the office of Reinhard Houben, Spokesman on Economic Policy for the FDP Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.