Alfred Grannas

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Alfred Grannas is a German diplomat . He has been ambassador to Norway since mid-2018 .

career

Grannas joined the Foreign Service in 1990 .

First assignments took him to Lima , to the permanent mission to the United Nations in New York and for the United Nations in Kosovo . He also worked for a while in the office of the High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina . After working as the head of the Strategy and Control Task Force in the Federal Foreign Office , the years 2006 to 2010 brought him to the embassy in Norway for the first time .

As a result, he headed the Humanitarian Aid Task Force at the Foreign Office . In May 2012 Grannas was appointed Deputy Head of the EU Representation in Afghanistan . He returned to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin in 2013, where he was initially commissioner for the United Nations and international order and then commissioner for infrastructure and security.

In mid-2018, Grannas was sent to Oslo as an ambassador .

Grannas has been married to a Norwegian since 2001 and has one son.

Web links

  • Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy in Oslo. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT 05.09.2018 S1
  2. ↑ The German Foreign Ministry is rolling out Linux clients en masse. In: Linux magazine. January 2006, accessed on February 3, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b Interview with Alfred Grannas, Germany's new ambassador to Norway. September 6, 2018, accessed on February 3, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ German humanitarian aid abroad - short evaluation report. December 2011, p. 3 , accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  5. ^ High Representative Catherine Ashton appoints 17 new Heads and Deputy Heads of Delegation. (PDF) European External Action Service , May 16, 2012, p. 2 , accessed on June 17, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ "We have failed" - panel discussion with Dr. Klaus Kinkel recalls the genocide in Srebrenica. In: Genocide Alert. June 26, 2015, accessed on February 3, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ takeaways - Alfred Grannas on Transforming Human Resources. In: The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute. April 25, 2017, accessed February 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Grannas, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century