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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 in the UN Security Council VTC Meeting on the Humanitarian Impact of Environmental Degradation on Peace and Security, September 17
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen during the UN Security Council VTC Meeting on UNMISS, September 16, 2020
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen during the UN Security Council Meeting on Yemen, September 15, 2020
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen during the UN Security Council VTC Meeting on the Cooperation between the UN and regional and subregional organizations: the role of the International Organization of La Francophonie, September 8, 2020
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Foreign Minister Maas on the end of Germany’s presidency of the UN Security Council, July 30, 2020
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen during the Security Council Meeting on Yemen, July 28
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council Arria meeting on “Women and the Afghan Peace Process: Ensuring Women’s Participation and Promoting their Rights”, July 27
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“The exciting thing is: no day is like the other.”
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Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Informal Interactive Dialogue between the Security Council and the Peacebuilding Commission on the implications of COVID-19 on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace in conflict-affected countries, July 22
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Speech by Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas at the UN Security Council on sexual violence in conflicts, July 17, 2020