Dr. Oliver Linz is the Director Policy Planning at the German Federal Foreign Office. Previously he worked as a senior advisor for security and defence policy in the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. In this role, he worked closely with Dr. Wadephul, who at the time was the deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. Oliver Linz is originally a civil servant at the Ministry of Defence. He worked in the planning staff of the Federal Ministry of Defence, in the Federal Chancellery, and in the office of the Minister of Defence, Dr. Ursula von der Leyen. He studied history and political science and received his PhD in Ancient History.
