Biography

Dr. Matthias von Schwanenflügel is the Director General of the Division of Demographic Change, Older People and Welfare in the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2010 to 2014, he was Head of the Household, Legal and Telematics Division and, from 2005 to 2010, Head of the Nursing Care Sub-Division of the Federal Ministry of Health, where he had been working in various departments since 1991. He holds a doctorate in law and was a consultant at the US Department of Health and Human Services in 2011 and is a lecturer at the Universities of Münster and Bremen.