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Minister of State Niels Annen
Curriculum Vitae
Niels Annen has been Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office since 14 March 2018.
- born on 6 April 1973 in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg
- 1992
Graduated from the Peter Petersen School, Hamburg,
with the university entrance qualification certificate - 1993 to 1994
Compulsory non-military national service, served with the Regional Youth Council, Hamburg - 1994
Commenced studies at Hamburg University (History and Latin American Studies) - 1997 to 1998
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain - 2000 to 2002
Vice-President of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), Vienna - 2001 bis 2004
Chairman of the Federal Executive Board of the Young Socialists
(Jusos - SPD youth organisation) - since 2003
Member of the SPD Executive Committee - 2005 to 2009
Member of the German Bundestag, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and alternate member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid - 2010
Bachelor of Arts, History and Spanish, Humboldt University, Berlin - 2010 to 2011
Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund, Washington D.C., USA - 2011
Master of International Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA - 2011 to 2013
Advisor for International Policy Analysis, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin - since 2013
Member of the German Bundestag, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (until 2018) and alternate member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2018) - 2014 to 2015
Member of the Commission on the Review and Safeguarding of Parliamentary Rights regarding Mandates for Bundeswehr Missions Abroad - since 2014 and from 2005 to 2009
Deputy Spokesman of the Parliamentary Left within the SPD Parliamentary Group - since 2014
Chairman of the Commission on International Politics of the SPD
(joint chair with Martin Schulz) - since 2014
Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia - 2014 to 2018
Spokesman on Foreign Affairs of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag