Patricia Flor
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Patricia Flor (born October 19, 1961 in Nuremberg ) is a German diplomat .
education
After graduating from high school and then doing an internship at Nürnberger Nachrichten 1981 to 1983, she worked as an editor and in 1985 as a freelance journalist in the USA, before where? Studied history, philosophy, Slavic and Eastern European history. After obtaining the academic degree “Magister” (1989), where did she go ? after research stays in Great Britain and Russia 1995 to Dr. phil. PhD in Eastern European History and Economics. In addition, she obtained a Master of Public Administration degree in 1996 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
Career
After joining the Foreign Service in 1992, he was employed at the German Embassy in Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995 and from 1996 at the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York . From 1998 to 2000 she was chairwoman of the UN Commission on Women's Rights .
In 2000 he returned to the office. Under the then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) , Flor was head of the - politically sensitive - Parliament and Cabinet Department at the Foreign Office in Berlin from 2002 to 2006.
From July 2006 to March 2010 she was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Georgia . During her tenure as Ambassador to Georgia, Germany's increased efforts to find a peaceful settlement of the conflicts over the split-off Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Foreign Minister Steinmeier's visit in July 2008, before the conflict with Russia escalated ). Ortwin Hennig succeeded him as ambassador .
Patricia Flor returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin in March 2010 with the rank of ministerial director as representative for Eastern Europe , the Caucasus and Central Asia . On July 1, 2012, on the basis of a decision by the Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union, she assumed the position of EU Special Representative for Central Asia. In this role she worked closely with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton .
After her return to Berlin in March 2014, Flor became Head of the Department for the United Nations in the Foreign Office under Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier with the rank of Ministerial Director . As a result of structural changes as part of the review process at the Federal Foreign Office, she headed the newly created Department for International Order, United Nations and Arms Control from March 2015 to summer 2018. Because of her office, she was also the Federal Government Commissioner for questions of disarmament and arms control. Flor has been the European Union's ambassador to Japan since mid-2018 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flor, Patricia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Georgia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |