Harald Braun - State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office

Harald Braun
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Harald Braun

Harald Braun

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Curriculum vitae

Born in 1952, married with three children

1971- 1973
Higher education entrance qualification and military service

1973- 1975
Commercial apprenticeship with IBM Germany

1975- 1979
Studies in economics, history and literary studies in Tübingen und New York and completion of doctorate

since 1981
Member of the Foreign Service posted to Beirut, London, Bujumbura and elsewhere

1997- 2002
Minister and Head of Political Section, German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

2002- 2003
Ambassador at large in the Directorate-General for Global Issues of the Federal Foreign Office

2003- 2005
Head of group responsible for Foreign and Security Policy at the Federal Chancellery

2005 - 2008
Corporate Senior Vice President, Siemens AG, Munich
Head of central division for global government affairs

since 2008
Professor for Global Studies and Diplomacy (State University of New York)

2008- 2009
Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at the German Embassy in Paris

2010- 2011
Head of the Central Directorate-General of the Federal Foreign Office

since July 2011
State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office

In this function he holds several mandates, including being a member of the supervisory boards of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the German Investment and Development Company and Germany Trade and Invest (GTaI), as well as the steering committee of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the board of trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation.