Ina Lepel

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Ina Ruth Luise Lepel (born April 18, 1962 in Cuxhaven ) is a German diplomat and since September 2019 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981, Ina Lepel began studying economics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , which she continued at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), and graduated in 1987.

career

In 1988 Ina Lepel began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation was first at the embassy in Thailand between 1990 and 1992 and then from 1992 to 1995 in the political department of the Foreign Office . She then served as Permanent Representative to the Ambassador to Georgia between 1995 and 1998 and from 1998 to 2000 she was Policy Advisor at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City .

Between 2000 and 2002 Lepel was employed in the press department of the Federal Foreign Office and was then employed in the Federal Chancellery from 2002 to 2006 . She then acted as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Pakistan between 2006 and 2009 and, on her return, was Head of Unit of the United Nations Department of the Federal Foreign Office from 2009 to 2012 . Between 2012 and 2015, as the successor to Volkmar Wenzel , she was the Federal Foreign Office's representative for global issues and therefore responsible for civilian crisis prevention , humanitarian aid and international terrorism.

In July 2015 Ina Lepel succeeded Cyrill Nunn as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , while Annett Günther succeeded her as the Federal Foreign Office's representative for global issues. From 2017 to 2019 she headed the newly created Asia and Pacific Department of the Federal Foreign Office . In May 2019, the German government decided to send Lepel to Japan as an ambassador.

Web links

Resume. In: German diplomatic missions in Japan. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Von der Leyens political boss becomes ambassador in Moscow , in: Spiegel Online , 05/2019
predecessor Office successor
Cyrill Nunn German Ambassador to Islamabad (Pakistan)
2015–2017 		Martin Kobler
personal data
SURNAME Lepel, Ina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lepel, Ina Ruth Luise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven