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20 August 2020 Official Portrait of the new Permanent Representative for Germany, H.E. Michaela Spaeth OECD Headquarters, Paris, France Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler, © OECD
Curriculum vitae
Ambassador Michaela Spaeth
Born in 1961
Degree in Economic and Social History, Political Sciences and Early and Modern and Mondern History at the University of Freiburg and the Institut d'études politiques in Paris
| Since 2020 |
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD, Paris |
| 2018 – 2020 |
Director for Energy and Climate Policy, Economic Affairs and Human Rights, International Labour Rights and Issues, Federal Foreign Office Berlin |
| 2015 – 2018 |
Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy Vienna |
| 2012 – 2015 |
Head of the Energy Policy and International Commodity Policy Division, Federal Foreign Office Berlin |
| 2010 – 2012 |
Head of the Cultural Affairs Section, German Embassy Warsaw |
| 2008 – 2010 |
Worked on the foundation of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Federal Foreign Office Berlin |
| 2007 – 2008 |
Head of the Press Section, German Embassy London |
| 2006 – 2007 |
Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA |
| 2002 – 2006 |
Deputy Head of the East Asia Division, Federal Foreign Office Berlin |
| 2001 – 2002 |
Head of the office of Tom Koenigs, Deputy Special Representative for Civil Administration of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) |
| 1997 – 2000 |
Head of the Trade Promotion Unit, German Embassy Beijing |
| 1995 – 1997 |
Secondment at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London |
| 1992 – 1995 |
Desk officer, Cultural Directorate-General, Federal Foreign Office Bonn |
| 1989 – 1992 |
Desk officer, German Embassy Dhaka |
| 1987 – 1989 |
Training, Federal Foreign Office Bonn |
1987 |
Joined the foreign service |
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