Speakers

Dr. Markus Reichel (CDU) has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2021. As a
directly elected member of parliament, he represents the electoral district of Dresden 1. He is a
member of the Committee on Digital Affairs and the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. He also
chairs the "Future of Work" working group of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

Markus Reichel was born in Munich in 1968. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he studied mathematics
at the Technical University of Dresden from 1991. He then completed postgraduate studies in
economics. In 1998, he received his doctorate in energy economics from the Technical University of
Dresden. Prior to his mandate, Markus Reichel initially worked as a research assistant at the
International University Institute Zittau. In 1999, he then founded his own company DREBERIS
(Dresden Consulting for International Strategies).

Since November 2019, Markus Reichel has been the district chairman of the CDU Dresden. He has
been active in the Foreign Trade Committee of the Dresden Chamber of Commerce and Industry
since 2014 and has headed the Saxony CDU's State Committee on Business & Innovation since 2015.
Away from political life, Markus Reichel teaches the Japanese martial art Aikido on a voluntary basis