Gabriela Guellil

Gabriela Linda Guellil (born August 9, 1959 in Glendale , California ) is a German diplomat . She has been the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Mauritania since October 2018 .

Life

After graduating from high school , Gabriela Guellil began studying Islamic studies and economics in 1978 and did her doctorate in 1985 at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the subject of "Damascus files of the 8th – 14th centuries. Century after aṭ- Tarsūsīs Kitāb al-Iʿlām: A study of the Arab judiciary ” . She then began working as a sales manager at Robert Bosch GmbH .

In 1987 she joined the Foreign Service and, after passing the career examination for the higher civil service in 1989, was employed at the Consulate General in Istanbul before she worked in the Foreign Office from 1992 to 1995 . Afterwards she was first permanent representative of the ambassador in Ecuador and then from 1998 to 2002 she worked for the embassy in Turkey .

In 2002 she became deputy head of department in the Federal Foreign Office before returning to the embassy in Turkey in 2006, where she was head of the economic department until 2007. She then worked again in the Foreign Office in Berlin .

From September 2011 to October 2014 Gabriela Guellil was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cyprus . From 2016 to 2018 she was employed as the head of the German embassy in Chad . Since 2018 she has been the successor to Carola Müller-Holtkemper as Ambassador to Mauritania .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gabriela Guellil in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the embassy in Nouakchott / Mauritania (access on October 28, 2019)

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried Zeitz	German Ambassador to Cyprus 2011–2014	Nikolai von Schoepff
Detlev Wolter	German Ambassador to Chad 2016–2018	Rolf Welberts
Carola Müller-Holtkemper	German Ambassador to Mauritania since 2018