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The Permanent Representative
Ambassador Antje Leendertse has been the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations since September 2021.
Ambassador Antje Leendertse is the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations. She took up this appointment in 2021.
Prior to this appointment, Ambassador Leendertse was the State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office (FFO) in Berlin from 2019 to 2021. She also served as the Political Director of the FFO in 2018-2019. In 2017-2018, she served as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva. From 2015 to 2017, she led the Task Force for the 2016 OSCE Chairmanship. During her long career with the Federal Foreign Office, she also served as the Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control at the FFO (2014-2015), the Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (2012-2014) and as Head of the Division for the Western Balkans (2009-2012).
Ambassador Leenderste joined the Federal Foreign Office in 1990. She was awarded a MA degree in Medieval and Modern History, Romance Languages, Economics, and Philosophy from the University of Cologne in 1989. She was born in Moers (Germany) on March 7, 1963. She is married and has one daughter.