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GERMANY - H.E. Ralf Beste

Credentials: 18.09.2019

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Born on 21 June, 1966 in Witten
Married, two children

2017-2019
Federal Foreign Office, Head of Planning Staff

2016-2017
Federal Foreign Office, Administrator of Strategic Communication

2014-2016
Federal Foreign Office, Deputy Head of Planning Staff

2001-2014
Editor at DER SPIEGEL, Berlin

1996-2000
Editor at Berliner Zeitung, Bonn and Berlin

1994-1996
Media spokesperson at the Ministry of Finance in Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz

1992-1994
Trainee / Editor at Ruhr Nachrichten, Dortmund

1987-1991
studied History in Bochum, Bielefeld and Baltimore (Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University; Magister Artium, University Bielefeld)

1985-1986
Military service

1985
Abitur (Diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission/ matriculation)

Fotos: Carina Karlovits/HBF