Christoph E. Herrlinger (DE)

Christoph Herrlinger was born in Germany in 1972. He holds a law degree of the University of Bonn.

Christoph started his career in the life science business in 2001 as Head of Legal at the German Plant Breeders Association BDP. In that role he advised - at the interface between law, politics, science, and business - seed companies of all sizes and with different focus on all questions with an impact on seeds. During that time, he also held a role as Managing Director of the Gregor Mendel Foundation.

After three years in a management role as BDP's Vice-Secretary General he started working abroad for a large international seed company in a global and cross-crop role. In 2015 Christoph joined NPZ as a member of the Management Board. He also holds management roles in NPZ affiliates in Germany and abroad. Through all this time Christoph has served on, and has led, numerous committees of BDP, the International Seed Federation ISF, and Euroseeds, amongst them the Euroseeds Board and the Committee Regulatory and Legal Affairs.

He has published on IP and seed trade and he is a member of several institutions working on IP in the life science area.