Eastern Europe, Eurasia Visiting Fellow
09/2023-today Visiting Fellow, Research Division Eastern Europe and Eurasia of the SWP
07/2019-07/2023 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Belarus
Since 1992 active at the German embassies in Moscow, Beijing, Washington, Warsaw as well as at the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Office in the planning staff and as Head of Division for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Eastern Partnership
1996-1997 Master in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1981-1990 Studies in Political Science, International Law and Eastern European History, Regensburg and Munich