Christoph heusgen biography
- Christoph Heusgen (born 17 March 1955) is a German diplomat who has served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022.
- Christoph Heusgen is a German diplomat who has served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022.
- Heusgen is a graduate of the University of Saint Gallen in Switzerland and studied at Georgia Southern College in the United States and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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Short Bio
Ambassador Christoph Heusgen has been Chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022. He teaches political science at the University of St. Gallen.
Heusgen was Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to 2021. Since 2005, he has advised Chancellor Merkel on foreign and security policy issues and headed the Foreign Policy Department in the Federal Chancellery as Ministerial Director. From 1999 to 2005, Christoph Heusgen headed the Political Staff of the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana.
Heusgen holds a doctorate in economics. He studied at the University of St. Gallen, Georgia Southern College in the USA and the Sorbonne in Paris.
Events
Wednesday, 08. November 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
Sicherheit in Krisenzeiten
Russia's attack on Ukraine in February 2022 has brought the war back to Europe. What are the consequences of this? For
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Christoph Heusgen war Chairman of the Munich Security Conference between 2022 and 2025.
Before his chairmanship, Heusgen was Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations between 2017 and 2021. Prior to this appointment and since 2005, Heusgen was the Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. He served as Director of the Policy Unit for High Representative Javier Solana in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1999 to 2005.
Between 1988 and 1999, Heusgen served in various capacities at the Foreign Office in Bonn, including Deputy Director-General for European Affairs from 1997 to 1999 and member of Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel’s Private Office in charge of European Affairs from 1993 to 1997, serving as Deputy Head since 1994. From 1990 and 1992, he was Deputy Head of the special section in charge of negotiations on the Treaty of Maastricht. He held the position of Private Secretary to the Coordinator for German-French Relations from 1988 to 1990.
From 1986 to 1988, Heusgen worked in Germany’s Paris Emb
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Christoph Heusgen
German diplomat
Christoph Heusgen (born 17 March 1955) is a German diplomat who has served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022.[1][2]
Heusgen served as German Ambassador to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to 2021.[3][4] He was Under-Secretary for Foreign and Security Policy in the German Chancellery from 2005 to 2017, and described as Angela Merkel's most influential foreign policy and security adviser.[5] During Germany's tenure as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, Heusgen served as President of the Council in April 2019 and assumed the presidency again in July 2020, with his term ending in December 2020.[6][7]
Early life and education
The son of pharmacists, Heusgen grew up in Neuss[8] where he graduated from Quirinus-Gymnasium in 1973.[9] During his high school years, he spent a year as an exchange student at Western Reserve Academy, a boarding school in Hudson, Ohio.[10] Heusgen studi
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