Martin Ney (diplomat)

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Martin C. Ney (* 1956 ) is a German diplomat . He has been the German Ambassador to Portugal since July 2019 . Before that he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to India from 2015 to 2019 .

Life

Martin Ney studied law at the University of Würzburg and the University of Geneva (1976 to 1981), as well as economics and politics at Oxford University as a Cecil Rhodes scholarship holder (1981 to 1983). From 1983 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Institute of International Law, general political theory and constitutional law at the University of Wurzburg, where he in 1985 with the work , the use of nuclear weapons in the light of international law doctorate was.

Ney is married and has two grown sons. One of his hobbies is chamber music. He has performed with local orchestras at various locations.

career

In 1986 he began his career as a diplomat in the fundamental department for international law at the Federal Foreign Office . From 1988 to 1990 he headed the cultural and press department at the embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. During the negotiations on the external aspects of German unification (the so-called " 2 + 4 negotiations "), he was the legal advisor on the West German side and head of the delegation in the editorial committee of the negotiations. From 1991 to 1993 he acted as personal assistant to the State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office. He then moved to the Washington embassy as a political advisor before moving to Tokyo in 1997 . After a year as deputy head of the economic department, he became head of the political department there (1998–2001).

From 2001 to 2005, Ney was the European correspondent for the Federal Foreign Office, responsible for coordinating the EU's common foreign and security policy . In 2005 he was appointed Ambassador and Deputy High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina and worked in Sarajevo . From June 2006 to July 2007 he was Deputy Head of the Department for Global Issues at the Federal Foreign Office, responsible for the United Nations , human rights and humanitarian aid.

From August 2007 to July 2010, Ney served as Germany's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary). In August 2010 he was appointed commissioner for questions of general and special international law, and in July 2012 he was appointed head of the legal department of the Federal Foreign Office and international law advisor to the federal government.

From 2015 to 2019 Martin Ney was Germany's ambassador to India . In February 2016 he was questioned as a witness in the NSA committee of inquiry about his work as head of the legal department at the Federal Foreign Office.

In 2019 he moved to the German Embassy in Lisbon as ambassador.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Die Einheit" - book presentation at the Foreign Office. (No longer available online.) In: Foreign Office. August 28, 2015, archived from the original on December 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  2. ^ CV Ney. In: EAR. May 13, 2015, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  3. ^ Ney heads the legal department of the Federal Foreign Office. In: politics & communication. May 18, 2015, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ney becomes ambassador to India. In: politics & communication. October 9, 2015, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Steinmeier is reorganizing his ministry. In: FAZ.net. May 13, 2015, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  6. ^ Agenda of the 89th meeting of the 1st committee of inquiry. (PDF) (No longer available online.) February 19, 2016, archived from the original on February 26, 2016 ; accessed on February 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Ney, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ney, Martin C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1956