Since June 2024, Dr. Matthias Koehler has been appointed Deputy Director General for Digital Policy at the Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action which he joined in 2000.

Koehler has previously covered the role of Deputy Director General for Financing for SMEs and Business Start-ups and before that 

Previously he was appointed Division Head of Export and Finance and Chairman of the Interministerial Committee on Export Credit Guarantees. 

From 2006 to 2010 he was appointed Head of German G8 Sherpa Office and before that, he covered the position of Deputy Head of Division in the Foreign Trade Division and Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva.