Dr. Geert-Hinrich AHRENS ret. Ambassador

1954-58 Read Law in Bonn and Berlin 1958 First State Law Examination 1959-64 Legal Training in Duesseldorf 1964 Second State Law Examination, LLD 1964-65 Lawyer at Duesseldorf District Court 1965-67 Foreign Service Training in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Bonn, Germany 1967-68 Federal Foreign Office, Bonn 1968-72 Consulate General, Hong Kong 1972-75 Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1975-79 Embassy, Beijing, China 1979-83 Federal Foreign Office, Bonn, Deputy Head of Section, Political Directorate General 1983-84 Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA 1984-86 Ambassador, Hanoi, Vietnam 1986-91 Federal Foreign Office, Bonn, Head of Section, Political Directorate General 1991 Head of German contingent, European Community Monitor Mission, Zagreb, Croatia 1991-92 Ambassador at Large, Conference on Yugoslavia, The Hague, Netherlands 1992-96 Ambassador at Large, International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Geneva, Switzerland 1996 Federal Foreign Office, Bonn, Director for Asian Affairs, Political Directorate General 1996-99 Ambassador, Santafe de Bogota, Colombia 1999 Special Envoy of the European Presidency to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1999-2002 OSCE Presence in Albania, Head of Presence 2002-03 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., USA 2003 Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies, Bonn, Germany