Ekkehard Brose

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Ekkehard Brose (born May 6, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German diplomat . Since October 2019 he has been President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1976, Brose served as a contract soldier in the navy for two years before studying economics, politics and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1978 to 1981 . He completed his postgraduate studies as a Rhodes scholarship holder at Oxford University in 1983 with an MPhil in International Relations.

In 1984 Brose joined the   Foreign Office , where, after completing two years of diplomatic training, he initially worked in the arms control department. This was followed by assignments as an economic advisor at the Moscow embassy, ​​from 1990 back in Bonn in the ministerial office of Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Klaus Kinkel and from 1993 as a press officer at the Washington embassy. From 1996 to 2000 Brose was Deputy Office Manager of the Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana and Lord Robertson , in Brussels. During this time he was involved in the negotiations on the NATO-Russia Founding Act .

He then worked as a section head, initially in the European department, later in the political department of the Foreign Office in Berlin. In 2004 he became a sub-department head in the European department and then went to the German embassy in Moscow as a business envoy. From 2010 to 2013 he was deputy ambassador at the German NATO mission in Brussels. Brose spent the following year as a visiting researcher in the security policy department at the Science and Politics Foundation in Berlin. From 2014 to 2016 he represented the Federal Republic of Germany in Iraq as Ambassador.

After his return to Berlin, he worked as a civilian crisis prevention and stabilization officer in the Federal Foreign Office. In this role he also co-chaired the stabilization working group in the international anti-IS coalition . In 2019 Brose was appointed President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin.

Brose is married and has four grown children.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ President. October 27, 2015, accessed October 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Press release: Ekkehard Brose new BAKS President. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brose, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg