Michael Worbs

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Michael Worbs (born September 14, 1950 in Ulm ) is a German diplomat and was Chairman of the Executive Council of UNESCO from November 2015 to November 10, 2017 .

biography

After graduating from high school in Frankfurt am Main , he studied political science , German language and literature as well as general and comparative literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Free Technical University in Berlin , graduating in 1976 with the first state examination. After research in Vienna , Paris and Rome , he received a scholarship from the studienstiftung and doctorate as a graduate student at Höllerer 1980 Dr. phil. He then served as a clerk in the Berlin State Library operates.

In 1981 he joined the diplomatic service and after completing his attaché training in 1983, he was employed as a press and cultural officer at the embassy in Sudan and then for a short time in 1986 as permanent representative of the ambassador in Lebanon . After returning to Germany, he worked for the Middle East Department at the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1986 and 1989 .

He then moved to the embassy in Italy , where he initially took part in an official exchange at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs before becoming deputy head of the embassy's economic department. After a temporary job as chargé d' affaires at the embassy in Albania , he was both permanent representative of the ambassador and head of the economic department of the embassy in Ukraine from 1992 to 1994 .

In the following years he was deputy head of the media division in the Federal Foreign Ministry before he was permanent representative of the ambassador to UNESCO in Paris between 1997 and 2001. This was followed by a position as head of the economic department of the embassy in Brazil until 2004. During this time he was temporarily consul general in São Paulo .

After a secondment to the headquarters of the group Daimler-Chrysler AG in Stuttgart , he was on leave on 1 July 2005 by the Foreign Office and assumed the post of Director for Eastern Europe in the area of policy and external relations of the Daimler-Chrysler AG.

From August 2007 to June 2010 Worbs was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kuwait, which was followed by a post from July 2010 to mid-2012 as Consul General in Rio de Janeiro . From August 2012 to June 2016, Worbs was Permanent Representative of Germany to UNESCO in Paris and from November 2015 to November 10, 2017 Chairman of the UNESCO Executive Council.

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