Hinrich Thölken

Hinrich Thölken (born March 21, 1961 in Mannheim ) is a German diplomat who served as Ambassador Head of the Permanent Mission to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was in Rome .

Life

After graduating from high school (1980) in Mannheim, Thölken studied human medicine in Heidelberg and London / Great Britain until 1987.

From 1987 to 1989 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Medical University Clinic in Heidelberg. In 1989, Thölken joined the Foreign Service and, following preparatory service and a career examination for the higher foreign service, was initially employed as a consultant for multilateral development cooperation in the Foreign Office from 1991 to 1992. He then worked as a press and culture officer at the Embassy in Windhoek / Namibia until 1996 and as part of a secondment in the summer of 1992 at the Embassy in Kinshasa. This was followed by assignments in the Foreign Office in Bonn (Southeast Asia Department) and at the Washington embassy. From 2002 to 2004 he was Head of Communication and Media at the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers in Berlin. From 2007 to 2010, Thölken was head of the economic department at the Paris embassy before he took over as head of the department for climate and environmental foreign policy at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin in 2010. In 2015 he was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Rome. In 2018 he became the representative for digital transformation at the Foreign Office in Berlin.

Thölken is married to the German diplomat Irmgard Maria Fellner.

Publications

• Politics and policies, British Medical Journal, Vol. 344, No. 7849 (24 March 2012), pp. 33-34
• An Interview with German Ambassador Dr. Hinrich Thölken, World Food Program

Web links

• Official CV on the website of the Permanent Mission to FAO, WFP and IFAD - Rome

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Wrießnig	Permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at FAO, WFP and IFAD 2015-