Verena Countess von Roedern

Verena Countess von Roedern (born May 28, 1955 in Erbach ) is a German diplomat . She has been Consul General in Bordeaux, France, since July 2018.

education and study

After high school in 1974 graduated Countess of Roedern 1975-1981 to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and it also proves at this time to study abroad at the Sorbonne , where she is a French semester . After the first state examination in law in 1981 in Munich and the subsequent legal clerkship, she completed her second state examination in Munich in 1983.

Foreign service

After joining the Foreign Service in 1984 and the subsequent career test for the higher service in 1986, she was employed as a consultant in the cultural department of the Foreign Office and then as a consul at the Consulate General in Calcutta from 1987 to 1989, where she worked for the embassy for three months in 1988 was seconded in Australia .

Between 1989 and 1992 she was First Class Counselor at the Embassy in Ireland, First Secretary for Legal and Cultural Affairs and then until 1994 a consultant in the Legal Department of the Foreign Office in Bonn, before she was Counselor and Economics Officer at the Embassy in Bonn between 1994 and 1999 France was.

Countess von Roedern was Deputy Head of the Department for International Research and Technology Policy in Department 4 (Economy and Sustainable Development) of the Foreign Office from 1999 to February 2003 and then Consul General in Karachi , before she was Head of the Department for Antarctica between 2006 and 2008 , Law of the Sea, Air and Space Law in the Foreign Office in Berlin .

From July 2008 to August 2012 Verena was Countess von Roedern as successor to Franz Ring ambassador in Nepal. In August 2012 she moved to the Consulate General in Edinburgh as Consul General, while the previous Ambassador to Zambia , Frank Meyke , succeeded her as Ambassador to Nepal. In July 2015 Jens-Peter Voss became the new consul general in Edinburgh and Countess von Roedern went to the embassy in The Hague as permanent representative

Since July 2018 she has been Consul General in Bordeaux, France.

Web links

• Resume. In: Website of the German representations in France. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .