Curriculum Vitae - Cord Meier-Klodt, Chargé d'Affaires

born 1958 in Hamburg, married, three children

since August 2011

Deputy Chief of Mission, Head of Economic and Global Affairs, German Embassy, New Delhi

2008 – 2011

Head of Culture and Education, German Embassy, London

2005 - 2008

Head of Strategy and Planning for Culture and Education, German Foreign Office, Berlin

2002 - 2005

Head of Press and Public Affairs, German Embassy, Moscow, Russian Federation

1998 - 2002

Deputy Head, Task Force on Global Affairs, German Foreign Office, Berlin

1995 - 1998

Political Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, New York

1992 - 1995

Deputy Consul-General, St. Petersburg

1990 - 1992

Desk Officer for Central and Eastern European Affairs, German Foreign Office, Bonn

1987 - 1990

First Secretary, German Embassy, Accra

1985 - 1987

German Foreign Service Academy, Bonn

1979 – 1984

Studies of Philosophy, Romance Literature and Linguistics at Universities of Hamburg, Paris and Grenoble

1983

“Licence Lettres franco-allemandes”, Paris

1984

First State Examination (Staatsexamen), Hamburg