Werner Hoyer is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany, currently serving as the President of the European Investment Bank. From October 28, 2009 he was Minister of State at the Foreign Office in the Second Cabinet Merkel under Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. He previously served in this capacity from 1994 to 1998 in the Fifth Cabinet Kohl under Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. From 2002 to 2009, he was deputy chair of the FDP group in the Bundestag. He graduated as an economist at the University of Cologne in 1974, and worked as a scientific assistant there until 1974. He earned a doctorate in economics in 1977, with the dissertation Verm�genseffekte des Geldes - Theoretische Ans�tze zur Rolle des Geldes als Verm�gensobjekt im Wirtschaftsprozess. From 1985 to 1987, he worked with the Carl Duisberg Society in Cologne. He taught international economics at the University of Cologne until 1994. Hoyer is a member of the Union of European Federalists. He is married and has two children. In 1972, he became a member of the FDP, and was a board member of the Young Liberals from 1983 to 1986. 

November 17th, 1951 in Wuppertal (Age 72)