Julia Lemke is a member of the cabinet of the European Commission Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, Teresa Ribera. Before this, she was a member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, and held several senior advisor positions in international and European affairs at the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the French Treasury.
She completed her Doctorate in Law at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and obtained the First and Second State Examination in Law in Berlin, Germany. She also holds law degrees from the University of Paris X, Nanterre, France, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, and was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.