2021-2025 Elected Chairman of the staff council (Personalrat) of the Federal Foreign Office

2018-2021 Head of Division, International Civil, Economic, Trade and Tax Law

2015-2018 Deputy Consul General, Hong Kong

2012-2015 Elected Member of the staff council (Personalrat), Federal Foreign Office

2011-2012 Deputy Head of Division, Division for International Civil, Economic, Trade and Tax Law

2009-2011 Legal Officer, Division for Visa and Aliens Law.

2006-2009 Head of Cultural and Press section, German Consulate General San Francisco, USA

2002-2006 Head of Legal and Consular Affairs, German Embassy Bangkok, Thailand and head of the crisis team in Phuket after the Tsunami in South East Asia in 2004

2001-2002 Desk Officer International Law Division

2000 Entry into the German Foreign Service

1998-2000 Assisstant to the board, Allianz AG

1995-1997 Elected as youngest member of the Hamburg State Legislature, one of 16 Federal States in Germany

1994-1995 Master of Laws, Duke University, USA

1990-1997 University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law (2. Juristisches Staatsexamen)