Boris Ruge

Boris Ruge (born April 18, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German diplomat who was ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2014 to 2016 . With effect from the end of July 2019, he will be Deputy Chairman (Vice-Chairman) of the Munich Security Conference (MSC).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981 and completing military service in the Air Force in 1983, Ruge began studying history at the University of Cologne , which he did between 1985 and 1988 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Paul H. Nitze Bologna Center School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University . He also studied political science there .

career

In 1989 Ruge began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation was a consultant in the political department of the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1989 and 1992 . From 1992 to 1995 he served as political advisor and member of the delegation to the Security Council at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City and between 1996 and 1999 as head of the press and cultural department and the consular department of the embassy in Denmark . Thereupon he was in 1999 during the operation "Allied Force" in Kosovo liaison officer in the "Media Operations Center" of the NATO headquarters in Brussels and during this time also took part in the first headquarters of the NATO troops in Kosovo KFOR (Kosovo Force) in Pristina after the end of the fighting.

After his return, Ruge was a consultant in the personnel department of the Federal Foreign Office between 1999 and 2001 and first political advisor to the commander of the KFOR, Lieutenant General Thorstein Skiaker from 2001 to 2002 . He then served as Deputy Head of the European Security and Defense Policy Unit in the Federal Foreign Office between 2002 and 2005 and graduated from the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London in 2005 , before becoming Head of the Political Department in the Office of the High between 2006 and 2008 Representatives and EU special envoy in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Christian Schwarz-Schilling and, since July 2, 2007, Miroslav Lajčák .

In 2008 Ruge returned to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and was Head of the Middle East Department until 2011 and subsequently Regional Representative for the Middle East and Maghreb of the Federal Foreign Office between 2011 and 2014.In June 2014, Ruge became Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . He thus succeeded Dieter W. Haller , who in turn was appointed head of the economic department in the Foreign Office. On August 29, 2014, Ruge was received by King Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz to present his credentials. His successor in July 2016 was Dieter W. Haller, who was also his predecessor.

From 2016 to 2019 he was the envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador at the German Embassy in Washington, DC . In June 2019, his appointment as deputy chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) was announced.

Publications

• Tyskere imod Hitler. Fem diplomater i København , editor, German Embassy, ​​Copenhagen 1999
• In memory of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904–1973) , editor, Foreign Office, Berlin 2004

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Riyadh (access on December 8, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ambassador Ruge presented credentials in Riyadh / Saudi Arabia ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Federal Gazette of September 10, 2014) 
2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae: Boris Ruge ( Memento from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
3. ↑ Munich Security Conference receives personal support from the Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .