Christian Patermann (born 1942 in Gliwice, Upper Silesia) is a lawyer and is considered one of the pioneers of bioeconomics, agriculture, and foodstuffs in the European Union in Brussels.
After passing his state examinations he worked from 1971 to 1996 for the Federal Ministry of Science, where he was engaged in the areas of space travel, ecology and global change.
From 1998 to 1993 he was also press officer and leader of the managerial team of Federal Research Minister Heinz Riesenhuber.
From 1996 until his retirement in 2007 Patermann served in the Research Directorate of the European Union, responsible for Ecology and sustainability and as Programme Director for Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food shaped, in particular, the agricultural research framework of the EU.
[3] Since his retirement Patermann has been an advisor to numerous public and private enterprises and in 2009 was a founding member of the first German Bioökonomierats (Bio-economics Advisory Committee).