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Gesa Bräutigam (born July 7, 1965 in Hanover ) is a German diplomat . She has been Germany's Permanent Representative to the OSCE since August 2019 .

Life

Gesa Bräutigam studied history and English from 1985 to 1993 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Before joining the Foreign Service, she worked at the Goethe Institute in Helsinki from 1993 to 1994 and at the Representation of the EU Commission in Bonn from 1994 to 1995 .

Gesa groom is married and has two children.

career

From 1995 to 1997 groom completed the preparatory service for the higher foreign service. She then worked in the European Security and Defense Policy Department at the Foreign Office in Bonn and in 1999 moved to the German Embassy in Warsaw. In 2002 she returned to the Foreign Office, now in Berlin, and worked in the Parliament and Cabinet Department until 2005. In 2005 he switched to the permanent mission to NATO in Brussels. From 2007 to 2011 she worked in the ministerial office of the Foreign Office, then from 2011 to 2014 at the German Embassy in Washington, USA, and in 2014 returned to Berlin, where she became the head of the EU coordination group and European Commissioner at the Foreign Office.

In August 2019 she was appointed Head of the Permanent Mission to the OSCE as the successor to Eberhard Pohl .

Web links

• Resume. In: Website of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OSCE. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .