Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig

Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig (* 1958 ) is a German diplomat . She has been the German ambassador to Costa Rica since July 2018 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig studied law and political science and graduated with the second state examination in 1986. During her studies, she completed internships at UNEP in Kenya and the West Africa department of the BMZ .

She is married to Thomas Wrießnig , who is also a diplomat.

career

Nibbeling-Wrießnig joined the Foreign Service in 1987. Her first assignments abroad took her to Sydney, London and Seoul. This was followed by a job as a policy officer at the Moscow embassy.

From 1998 to 2002 she was head of the office of the Minister of State in the Foreign Office , Ludger Volmer , responsible for issues relating to the southern hemisphere and globalization , among other things . In April 2005, she was questioned before the Visa Investigation Committee in connection with the Visa affair .

In 2002 and 2003 she was again in Washington, this time as an exchange diplomat in the political department of the State Department. She then worked until 2005 as Head of Press at the German Embassy in Washington.

After a further period in the Foreign Office in Berlin (2006–2009 in the Communication Department), she represented the Federal Republic of Germany from 2009 to 2012 as Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to UNESCO in Paris.

This was followed by an assignment in Rome as permanent representative of the ambassador and head of the economic, financial and social department. In 2015 and 2016, she was entrusted with special tasks in the cultural department of the Foreign Office. From October 2017 she worked at the embassy in Honduras before starting her service as ambassador to Costa Rica in July 2018 .

Web links

• Resume. In: Website of the German Embassy in Costa Rica. Retrieved November 10, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign Office: Ambassador Martina Nibbeling-Wrießnig. Retrieved November 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Message in the Federal Gazette BAnz AT October 18, 2018 S1

predecessor	Office	successor
Ingo Winkelmann	German ambassador in San José since 2018	-