Anne-Marie Schleich

Anne-Marie Schleich (born July 28, 1951 in Saarlouis ) is a German diplomat who was ambassador to Wellington from 2012 to 2016 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1970, Anne-Marie Schleich began studying political science , sociology and English and, between 1972 and 1973, studied abroad at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts with the support of a Fulbright scholarship . After her return she continued her studies at the University of Mannheim and graduated in 1975 with the state examination. She then went back to the USA and was a Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1976 to 1977 and then a Research Assistant at Harvard University.

In 1979 Anne-Marie Schleich joined the Foreign Service and, after two years of preparatory service for the senior foreign service and the career test, found employment in the economic department of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1981 and 1982 . During this time she laid in 1982 at the University of Mannheim and its promotion to Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the topic of mechanisms of political interest mediation. An empirical study of income policy institutions in the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany .

After a subsequent assignment from 1982 to 1985 as a consultant for culture and press at the embassy in Singapore and between 1985 and 1988 as a consultant for culture and press at the embassy in Thailand , she was a consultant in the central department of the Foreign Office from 1988 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 she was head of the economic services of the embassy in Pakistan and from 1998 to 2001 a consultant in the foreign affairs department of the Federal Chancellery .

Anne-Marie Schleich was head of the working group for environmental and bio-political issues at the Foreign Office between 2001 and 2004 and then head of the cultural and educational department at the embassy in Great Britain , before she was consul general and head of the consulate general in Melbourne from 2008 to 2012 .

From 2012 to 2016 Anne-Marie Schleich was Ambassador to New Zealand as the successor to Thomas Hermann Meister . In this capacity, she was also accredited as ambassador to Tonga , Samoa , Fiji , Kiribati , Tuvalu and the Cook Islands , as well as being consul general in American Samoa .

Publications

• Political elites and innovation: Materials on the role of the elites in the overall societal innovation process , Bonn 1975
• Mechanisms of political mediation of interests. An empirical study of income policy institutions in the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany , dissertation (University of Mannheim), 1982

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the German Embassy in New Zealand (PDF; 33 kB)