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Ambassador Christoph Heusgen has been the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations since July 2017.
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Dr. Christoph Heusgen has been the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations since July 2017 and has since 2019 been Germany’s representative on the Security Council.
Before to coming to New York, Ambassador Heusgen served for 12 years as Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. His career in the Foreign Service also included terms as Deputy Head in charge of European Affairs in the private office of Foreign Minister Kinkel (1993-1997), and Director of the Policy Unit of the High Representative Javier Solana in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels (1999-2005).
Ambassador Heusgen attended the University of St. Gallen where he received his PhD in 1980 and then conducted post-doctoral research at Sorbonne University in Paris. He joined the German Foreign Office shortly thereafter and his first post was at the Consulate General in Chicago (1983-1986).
Ambassador Heusgen is married and has four children.
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen at the annual GA Debate on UN Security Council Reform, November 16
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen on the election of Professor Georg Nolte to the International Court of Justice, November 12
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council AOB on Nagorno-Karabakh, November 11
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council AOB on Belarus, November 11
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC meeting on Yemen, November 11
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council meeting on Syria (chemical weapons), November 5
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council meeting on Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 5
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen on behalf of 74 States Parties to the Rome Statute in support of the International Criminal Court on the occasion of the ICC Report to the General Assembly, November 2, 2020
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen following Vote on the Draft Resolution on Women, Peace and Security on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Resolution 1325, October 30, 2020
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC Meeting on the Middle East, October 26, 2020