Curriculum vitae

Born in Munich in 1962, three children

• 1981 Military service
• 1982 Studied modern history, ancient history and communication studies in Munich, Budapest and Vienna (DPhil, MA)
• 1985 Studied political science in Munich and Washington D.C. (Dipl. sc. pol. Univ.)
• 1991 Joined the foreign service
• 1993 Desk Officer, Political Directorate-General, Federal Foreign Office
• 1994 Head of the Legal, Consular and Cultural Section, German Embassy Rabat, Morocco
• 1997 Desk Officer in the Directorate-General for External Relations, European Commission, Brussels
• 2000 Desk Officer in the European Directorate-General, Federal Foreign Office
• 2001 German Bundestag, staff member of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group: Foreign Policy Working Group and office of Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, CDU/CSU Deputy Chair for foreign, defence and European policy
• 2006 Head of Division in the Foreign and Security Policy Directorate-General at the Federal Chancellery
• 2010 Vice-President of the Federal Intelligence Service
• 2014 Political Director for Security and Defence Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence
• 2019 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation
• Since August 2023 Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany on the North Atlantic Council