Curriculum Vitae

Born on 14 January 1961

1990 – 1993
Desk Officer for the issues of the German minority, German Embassy Bucharest

1993 – 1997
Press Officer and Desk Officer for political affairs, German Embassy Mexico City

1997 – 1999
Desk Officer for parliamentary affairs, Federal Foreign Office Bonn

1999 – 2002
Deputy Director of the Parliament and Cabinet Division, Federal Federal Foreign Office Berlin

2002 – 2004
Deputy Director of the economic section, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York

2004 – 2006
Head of the German Representative Office with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah

2006 – 2010
Director of the Parliament and Cabinet Division, Federal Foreign Office Berlin

June 2010 – July 2013
Deputy Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, working 2011 and 2012 as non-permanent member in the Security Council

September 2012 – September 2013
Chairman of the 5th Committee of the General Assembly (Budgetary and Administrative Issues) during the 67th GA

August 2013 – June 2014
Commissioner for Globalization, Energy and Climate Policy, Federal Foreign Office Berlin

July 2014 – July 2016
Regional Director for the Near and Middle East and the Maghreb, Federal Foreign Office Berlin

July 2016 – April 2020
Director General for Economic Affairs and Sustainable Development, Federal Foreign Office Berlin

May 2020 – January 2022
State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Since May 2022
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Kingdom

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