Born in Wolfsburg on 16 March 1968
| Year | Education and professional career |
| April 2023 – present | State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance Chair of the board of directors of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) Chair of the Financial Stability Committee (Ausschuss für Finanzstabilität) Member of the supervisory board of KfW IPEX Bank G7 and G20 Finance Deputy Alternate Governor of the World Bank Group Vice-President of the Economic and Financial Committee of the EU (since 2024) Chair of the board of Brussels Institute for Geopolitics (since 2024) Senator of the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) (since 2024) |
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| 2020–2023 | German Ambassador to Brazil |
| 2017–2020 | Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to NATO, Brussels |
| 2013–2017 | Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, New York
Vice-President of the Executive Board of UNICEF and UN Women |
| 2011–2013 | Chief of Staff, Federal Foreign Office |
| 2009–2011 | Deputy Chief of Staff, Federal Foreign Office |
| 2007–2009 | European policy advisor to the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag |
| 2005–2007 | Representative of the German Ambassador on the EU Political and Security Committee, Brussels |
| 2001–2003 | Consul at the German Embassy in Tehran |
| 1999–2001 | Attaché training at the Federal Foreign Office |
| 1998–1999 | Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg |
| 1998 | Second state examination in law |
| 1996–1998 | Legal traineeship at the Berlin Higher Regional Court |
| 1995 | First state examination in law |
| 1987–1995 | Studied law, Islamic studies and Arabic studies in Bonn, Cairo, Geneva and Berlin |