Christian Rehmer

Christian Rehmer leads Team Livestock at Agora Agriculture since September 2022. He develops proposals and concepts for environmentally- and animal-friendly livestock farming, with a focus on feasible political implementation.

Before joining Agora Agriculture, Christian led the agricultural policy department at Friends of the Earth (FOE) Germany for over six years. In addition to animal husbandry, his work focused on the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and fertilizer law. On behalf of FOE Germany, Christian worked on the final report of the Future Commission on Agriculture, as well as on the recommendations of the Competence Network on Farm Animal Husbandry.

Christian gained parliamentary experience during his nine and a half years as a Research Assistant at the German Bundestag, where he worked on a wide range of agricultural policy issues. He started his professional career in 2004 at the Fördergemeinschaft Ökologischer Landbau Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (FÖL). Prior to this, Christian studied landscape use and nature conservation at the University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde.