Since Aug. 2020   Ambassador, German Embassy Doha/Qatar

2016 – 2020        Ambassador, German Embassy Asunción/Paraguay

2013 – 2016        Minister Plenipotentiary, German Embassy Brasilia/Brasil

2009 – 2012        Policy Planning Staff, Federal Foreign Office

2006 – 2009        Minister Plenipotentiary, German Embassy Rabat/Morocco

2002 – 2006        Deputy Head of Export Controls, Federal Foreign Office

1998 – 2002        Press Department, later Political Department, German Embassy Washington/USA

1995 – 1998        Political Department, Federal Foreign Office Bonn / Germany, 
                              Office for pan-European Political Structures (OSCE)

1992 – 1995        Head of the Cultural and Press Department, German Embassy Teheran/Iran

1991 – 1992        Foreign Policy Department, Office of the German Federal President (Richard von Weizsäcker)

1989                    Entry into the Diplomatic Service

1978-1986           Studied History, Philosophy and English Literature

1989                     PhD in Contemporary History