I believe that smart, AI-based green tech concepts and applications will contribute significantly to improving living and environmental conditions, achieving climate and water conservation goals and ensuring economic success.

Stefan Tidow, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection © Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler

Stefan Tidow was born in Hanover in 1967. He studied political science, economics and pedagogy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.

Mr. Tidow has been working in politics in Berlin since the year 2000. He first worked as a research assistant to Christian Sterzing, European policy spokesperson of the Greens parliamentary group, and then as head of office of the federal chair of the Greens, Claudia Roth. In 2003, he changed to the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, where he worked in the Minister’s Office and the Division “Environment and Economy”.

From 2008 to 2011, Stefan Tidow worked in the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group, first as research coordinator in the managing executive committee and then as head of office of the floor leader of the Greens, Jürgen Trittin.

From 2012 to 2016, Stefan Tidow headed the Representation of the Land Rhineland-Palatinate to the Federation and the European Union as Deputy of the Delegate of the Land Rhineland-Palatinate. From December 2016 to December 2021, he was State Secretary at the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Urban Mobility and Climate Action.

With the swearing-in of the new German Federal Government in December 2021, Stefan Tidow was appointed State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.