Christine Weil

Christine Weil is a German diplomat . She has been the permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OVCW, English OPCW) since August 2017 .

career

Christine Weil began training for the higher diplomatic service in 1987. She gained her first diplomatic experience on missions at the German embassies in Moscow (1987–1988) and Brasília (1988–1991). After working in the Foreign Office in Bonn in the field of conventional disarmament (1991–1994), she was transferred to the Warsaw embassy in 1994 , where she stayed until 1997. From 1997 to 1999 she was a consultant for East Asia and then, from 1999 to 2004, at the permanent representation to the European Union in Brussels. Again at the Foreign Office in Berlin, Weil was deputy head of department for Central and Eastern Europe from 2004 to 2007.

This was followed by a secondment to the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Potsdam (2007–2008). From 2008 to 2010 she was head of the European department at the Federal President's Office . Back in the Federal Foreign Office in 2010, Weil took over the management of the department for the southern Caucasus and Central Asia. In 2013 she was appointed to Vienna as Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission to the OSCE , before becoming Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OPCW in August.

Christine Weil is married to Christof Weil and the couple have two children together.

Web links

• Resume. In: Website of the Permanent Representation to the OPCW The Hague. Retrieved November 25, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Foreign Office: Ambassador Christine Weil. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .