Lucia Puttrich is a Senior Advisor with TRANSEARCH International Deutschland GmbH at the Frankfurt office. After studying business administration, Lucia initially ran her own company with her husband before being elected mayor of Nidda, on the edge of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region. After 14 years as mayor, she was initially a member of the German Bundestag until she was called to Hesse as Minister for the Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. She was then Hessian Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Plenipotentiary of the State of Hesse to the Federal Government. The exchange between politics and business was always very important to Lucia Puttrich in all her political functions due to her own economic background and influence. As a long-standing member of the Hessian state government, she was also able to gain extensive experience in Berlin and Brussels. She will continue to pursue her path at TRANSEARCH.