Dr Ulf Böge has been President of the Bundeskartellamt in Bonn since the beginning of 2000. Earlier in his career he held positions as Director General for Economic Policy (1998) and as Director General for Energy Policy (1997) in the Federal Ministry of Economics.

He also gained experience, inter alia, as a Member of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency, Paris (1994–1998), Head of the German Delegation to the European Energy Charter negotiations (1991–1994), EU negotiator of the Energy Charter Treaty during the German EU Presidency (signed in Lisbon in December 1994) and Chairman of the Standing Group on Emergency Issues at the IEA, Paris (1996–1998).

His other functions include co-chairing the Competition Committee, Paris (as of June 2000), and acting as an Advisory Member of the Europäische Föderalismusakademie, Bonn; Extraordinary Member of the Industrieclub eV, Düsseldorf; Member of the Internationaler Club La Redoute eV, Bonn (2000). Co-Chairman of the International Competition Network Steering Group as of June 2003 and since September 2004 is he Chair of the International Competition Network Steering Group.

In the 1970s he was employed by the Federal Ministry of Economics in the field of competition policy and took charge of the Economics Section at the Office of the Federal President. Mr Böge graduated at the University of Mainz 1968 and went on to complete a doctorate (Dr rer pol) in 1971.