Professor, PhD Angelika Menne-Haritz has been Vice President of the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) since 2006. She is also Director of Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR which is functionally attached to the Bundesarchiv. In 1994-2001 Menne-Haritz was Director of the famous Marburg Archives School.

Angelika Menne-Haritz studied German and history in Stuttgart, Paris and Hamburg and wrote her doctoral thesis on the war lyrics that was written during the Franco-German War in 1870-71. The so called habilitation examination, which is needed for a professorship in Germany, she took in the Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer on the theme of administrative processes and electronic office systems. She was nominated extraordinary professor of the Hochschule in 2005.

Her research interests are wide. She has studied, among other things, business processes from the archival point of view, archives terminology, handling of information in different contexts, the principle of provenance and appraisal. Menne-Haritz's publications include more than hundred articles and other publications. Her books include e.g. Akten, Vorgänge und elektronische Bürosysteme (1996), Schlüsselbegriffe der Archivterminologie (2nd ed. 1999), Business Processes: An Archival Science Approach to Collaborative Decision Making, Records and Knowledge Management (2004).

Angelika Menne-Haritz has been active in international archival co-operation. She is President of EURBICA, the European Regional Branch of ICA (International Council on Archives).