Christoph Heusgen

Christoph Heusgen with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, 2014

Christoph Heusgen (born 17 March 1955 in Düsseldorf-Heerdt) is a German diplomat, and the current Under-Secretary for Foreign and Security Policy in the German Chancellery. He is expected to be appointed the German Ambassador to the United Nations in New York in 2017.

He studied economics in St. Gallen, Statesboro, Georgia and Paris, and obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen in 1980. He then joined the diplomatic service of West Germany. He served as private secretary of the coordinator of German–French cooperation, Rainer Barzel, from 1988 to 1990. In 1990 he became an adviser in the European affairs department of the Foreign Office. He was deputy principal private secretary in the private office of Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel from 1993 to 1997. He was under-secretary for European affairs in the Foreign Office from 1997.

From 1999 to 2005 he worked as Director of the Policy-Planning and Early Warning Unit in the Council Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. In 2005 he became Under-Secretary for Foreign and Security Policy in the German Chancellery. In November 2016 it became known that Heusgen will be appointed the German Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in 2017.[1]

Heusgen is a member of the Christian Democratic Union. He is married and has two children.

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References

  1. ↑ Heusgen soll UN-Botschafter werden, 2016-11-28
  2. ↑ "Aufstellung aller durch den Bundespräsidenten verliehenen Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich ab 1952" (PDF).
  3. ↑ Claudia Ehrenstein, Robin Alexander: Am Schlossplatz wird getalkt. In: Die Welt, 17 October 2015, No. 242, p. 8.
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