Michael Ernst Jäger

Vice President BdSt Bavaria

Vice President Bund der Steuerzahler in Bayern e.V.
Managing Director European Economic Senate (EES)
Secretary General European Taxpayers' Association (TAE)
Managing Director Jaeger EuroConsult

Born on 6 October 1962 in Munich

Professional career

• 1983 A-levels
• 1983 Military service
• 1984 studied business administration in Munich and graduated with a degree in business administration
• since 1991 employed by the Taxpayers' Association in Bavaria
• since 2009 working for the European Economic Senate
• 1998 to 2002 Managing Director of Brennstoffvertrieb Jaeger GmbH
• since 2009 owner/managing director of Jaeger EuroConsult

Honorary activities

• Founding member of the European Institute of Public Finance, Cologne, 1996
• Vice-Chairman of the SME Committee of the Economic Advisory Council of the Union, since 1998
• Vice-Chairman of the European Committee of the Economic Advisory Council of the Union, since 2001

• Member of the Press Club Munich, since 2001
• Member of the Board of the Association of European Journalists, German Section, since 2004
• Founding member of the International Committee for the Protection of Taxpayers' Rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Kiev, 2002
• Member of the Board of the European Movement Bavaria (EBB), since 2004
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Financial and Budgetary Policy, since 2006
• Member of the General Presidium of the Economic Advisory Council of the Union, since 2007
• Municipal councillor Neubiberg and economic advisor, since December 2009
• Deputy parliamentary group spokesman of the CSU Neubiberg since 2011
• Deputy local chairman of the CSU Neubiberg since 2013
• Founding member of the Bavarian Handball Academy, 2013
• Member of the advisory board of Lichtblicke Seniorenhilfe e.V. since 2013
• Member of the General Presidium of the East-West Business Club (OWWC) in Bavaria e.V., February 2014 to March 2016
• Member of the Belgian-German Society Brussels, since February 2015
• Member of the advisory board of the Ost-West-Wirtschaftsforum Bayern e.V., since March 2016

Language skills: English, French

Awards

2016: Awarded the Mérite Européen in Brussels

Publications/research papers/lectures

Since 1991, writing publications, articles, statements and lectures for the Taxpayers Association of Europe and the Bund der Steuerzahler in Bayern e.V. on topics related to taxation, Europe, budget and budgetary control, agricultural and structural reform, anti-corruption, subsidies, deregulation, privatisation and institutional reform.

Contact: Michael Jaeger