Ursula Brigitte Müller

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Ursula Brigitte Müller (* 1957 ) is a German diplomat . Since January 2017 she has been Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Aid Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ). This makes her currently the highest-ranking German employee within the UN system.

Politics & Communication magazine ranks her among the 44 most influential Germans at international level.

Life

Ursula Müller studied economics and is an economist. As director and special representative, she coordinated the activities of the Federal Foreign Office in response to the global economic and financial crisis. Müller also headed the Humanitarian Aid Task Force at the Federal Foreign Office in the “United Nations and Global Issues” department. She worked as a special representative at the German Embassy in Tanzania . She then worked at the German Embassy in Kabul . In 1995 she was elected women's representative in the Foreign Office. From 2001 to 2006 she was Deputy Head of the Political Department at the German Embassy in Washington .

At the Foreign Office she was the deputy head of the department for “Economy and Sustainable Development” and took care of the interface between diplomacy and development cooperation. In addition, Ursula Müller was the Federal Foreign Office's equal opportunities officer for six years .

From 2012 to 2014 Müller was head of the department for “Fundamental Issues in Development Cooperation” in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development . In her position as head of department, Müller refused to retrospectively issue an employee with a worse job reference in order to give Minister Gerd Müller's friend , Gunther Beger, advantages. State Secretary Friedrich Kitschelt is said to have urged Müller to act accordingly. When Ursula Müller refused and turned directly to Minister Gerd Müller, she was transferred to Washington and Beger was promoted two steps as planned.

From 2014 to the end of 2016 she was Executive Director at the World Bank Group , where she represented the Federal Republic of Germany.

Publications

  • 2000: Skilful, sent and sent: Women in the diplomatic service, Olzog, Munich, ISBN 3-7892-8041-0 (editor, together with Christiane Scheidemann)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UN Secretary General appoints the German Ursula Müller as Assistant Secretary General . In: German Society for the United Nations eV ( dgvn.de [accessed on July 29, 2017]).
  2. ↑ These are the 44 most influential Germans in institutions worldwide . In: Politics & Communication . ( politik-kommunikation.de [accessed on July 29, 2017]).
  3. ^ Federal Minister Steinmeier sends German relief supplies to Myanmar. In: Foreign Office. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  4. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Lawsuit against BMZ for nepotism. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  5. ^ Gerd Müller: Lawsuit against BMZ for nepotism . In: The time . January 23, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on July 13, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Secretary-General Appoints Ursula Mueller of Germany Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Ursula Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1957