Anke Holstein

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Anke Holstein (born April 24, 1967 in Gera ) is a German diplomat . She has been the ambassador to North Macedonia since July 2020 . Before that, she was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Djibouti and special envoy to the IGAD .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1985, Anke Holstein began studying Romance languages ​​in Leipzig , followed by diplomatic training in Bonn.

Holstein is married and has two children. She speaks 6 foreign languages ​​(English, French, Slovenian, Albanian, Russian, Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian)

career

After working as a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences from 1990 to 1991, she joined the European Department of the Federal Foreign Office in 1993 and moved to the European Commission in Brussels in 1995. In 1998 she was transferred to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and stayed there until 2001.

From 2001 to 2003 she worked as a deputy head of department in the department for EU external relations with Eastern Europe and the West. Balkans, Foreign Office, Berlin. In 2003 Holstein went to the Embassy in Slovenia as a permanent representative and returned to Berlin in 2007 as head of the work unit for EU personnel policy in the European department of the Federal Foreign Office.

From 2009 Holstein worked again in Brussels, initially as a policy advisor at the Directorate General for External Relations of the European Commission and from 2011 in the same function in the Policy Coordination Division of the European External Action Service . In 2014 she was transferred as permanent representative to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tirana, Albania. From August 2018 to June 2020 she was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Djibouti . Since July 2020 she has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Skopje , North Macedonia .

Web links

  • Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy in Djibouti. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019 ; accessed on November 10, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Foreign Office: Compatriot letter to ambassador. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ambassador Anke Holstein handed over the credentials to President Pendarovski. In: German Embassy Skopje. Federal Foreign Office, July 8, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Federal Foreign Office: Accreditation with IGAD. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Holstein, Anke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera