Ingo Karsten

Ingo-Heinz Karsten (born January 21, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German diplomat who was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Cambodia from 2016 to 2019 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974, Karsten began studying economics and law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , which he completed in 1979. He then worked from 1980 to 1984 as a research assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Kiel, where he completed his doctorate in 1983 with a dissertation entitled International Bank Loans to Developing Countries. Economic problems and possible solutions . In 1984 he began his preparatory service for the higher foreign service and, after completing his training as an attaché, between 1986 and 1990 was initially employed as head of the legal and consular department and cultural advisor at the embassy in Japan and then from 1990 to 1992 as an advisor in the foreign affairs department Office . This was followed between 1992 and 1996 to be used as political officer at the embassy in Italy From 1996 to 1998 Permanent Representative and Charge d'Affaires ad interim at the Embassy in Bangladesh .

After returning to Germany, Karsten was Deputy Head of a Department in the Economic Department of the Foreign Office between 1998 and 2001 and then Head of the Economic Department at the Embassy in Japan from 2001 to 2004, before he was Deputy Head of the Economic Department at the Embassy in Japan between 2004 and 2006 USA was. He then acted from 2006 to 2008 in the Foreign Office as Head of Division 400 (Basic Economic Issues, International Economic and Financial Policy, Trade Policy) and then from 2008 to 2011 as Head of the Economic Department at the Embassy in the People's Republic of China . He was then consul general in Bangalore from August 2011 to July 2013 . In this activity he also campaigned for an improvement in economic relations between the Federal Republic and the southern states such as Kerala . To this end, he held talks with the governor, MOH Farook , and the chief minister of Keralas , Oommen Chandy . He was then Consul General in Osaka - Kobe between July 2013 and August 2016 .

In August 2016 Karsten succeeded Joachim Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cambodia . He handed over his accreditation letter on September 23, 2016. In mid-2019, he handed over the official duties to his successor Christian Berger .

Karsten is married and has one child.

Publications

• Islam and Financial Intermediation , in: International Monetary Fund: IMF staff papers , March 1982 edition, pp. 1081–42
• International bank lending to developing countries. Economic problems and possible solutions , dissertation, University of Kiel, Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 1984, ISBN 978-3-7890-0977-8

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the embassy in Phnom Penh ( memento of October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 12, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerala trip Consul General Dr. Karsten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Page access on March 17, 2012)