A full-time member of the Rectorate, he heads the university’s administration and is its chief financial officer
Jens Andreas Meinen, a business management and public administration specialist, has taken up office as Kanzler of Heidelberg University. As a full-time member of the Rectorate, he is the head of the university administration and chief financial officer of Ruperto Carola. His area of responsibility being business and personnel development, he is involved in the university’s strategic decision-making processes and responsible for implementing them through the administration. The University Council and the Senate elected Jens Andreas Meinen to the office of Kanzler in March of this year. His six-year term of office started on 1 September.
Jens Andreas Meinen studied at the Fachhochschule für Verwaltung und Rechtspflege Hildesheim. In parallel with his subsequent studies in economics at the Gesamthochschule Hagen, he worked in various functions for the district government of Weser-Ems. After almost four years of employment at the Lower Saxony Water Management and Coastal Defence Agency, Jens Andreas Meinen headed the Finance Division of Osnabrück University from 2002 to 2009. He served as Head of Administration at Hochschule Bremen City University of Applied Sciences (2009 to 2013) and as Chancellor of FH Münster University of Applied Sciences (2013 to 2019), before transferring in the same capacity to the University of Duisburg-Essen in August 2019.