Sabine Sparwasser

Sabine Sparwasser

Sabine Sparwasser is a German diplomat and ambassador to Canada . She was previously the Federal Government's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan .

Life

After graduating from high school , Sabine Sparwasser studied German , Romance studies , English literature and linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1976 to 1981 . A subsequent post-graduate studies of political science with the main focus on International Relations at Sciences Po ( SciencesPo ) she completed in 1983 with a diploma , and was next to it from 1981 to 1984 as a freelance journalist working for German television. After that an activity on joined 1984-1985 Chair of Joseph Rovan for German History and Politics at the University of Paris-Vincennes , where she was a research assistant for European Integration.

In 1985 she joined the Foreign Service and, after completing the career test for the higher service, between 1987 and 1989, she initially worked as a consultant in the public relations department at the Foreign Office in Bonn and then as second secretary in the political department of the permanent representation at the European Community in Brussels . From 1991 to 1993 she was First Secretary in the Political Department of the Embassy in Great Britain and then until 1996 as Legation Councilor, First Class Advisor for the United Nations , North America , Latin America , the Middle East , the Middle East and Asia in the press department of the Foreign Office.

Subsequently, Sabine Sparwasser was permanent representative of the ambassador in Costa Rica between 1996 and 1999 and then deputy spokeswoman for the Foreign Office in Berlin until 2002 , before she worked as an exchange officer in the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade ( Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade ) in Ottawa . After that she stayed in Ottawa and was between 2003 and 2006 Permanent Representative of the Ambassador and Chargé of the Embassy in Canada, and after 2006-2009 Head of Unit for the Middle East and the countries of the Maghreb in the Foreign Office.

From 2009 to summer 2013, Sparwasser was Consul General in Toronto, replacing Holger Raasch . From 2013 to 2014 she was in charge of communication, the image of Germany abroad and German as a foreign language; From 2014 to 2015 she was head of the Foreign Service Academy at the Foreign Office in Berlin.

From July 2015 to September 2017, Sparwasser was the Federal Government's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and head of the second Political Department (Department 3) in the Federal Foreign Office . In this capacity she coordinated Germany's diplomatic engagement with this region. The country division for Afghanistan and Pakistan (343), which is part of the department headed by Sparwasser, worked on her task as a special representative. She also chaired the International Contact Group of Special Representatives in Afghanistan.

Sparwasser has been the German ambassador to Canada since August 2017 .

Web links

• CV on the homepage of the Embassy in Ottawa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aamt/koordinatoren/afghanistan-pakistan/204644
2. ^ The Federal Government's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .