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Alexander Schönfelder, born in 1963 in Marburg; Economist

1988/1989
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

1989 – 1993
UN official / UNIDO

1993
Joined the staff of the Federal Foreign Office
Posts abroad in the United States (Washington, DC), Thailand, Japan, Iraq and Algeria

2007 – 2011
Deputy Head of Division, International Energy Policy

2014 – 2018
Head of Division for General Economic Issues, International Economic and Financial Policy

2018 - 2022
Deputy Director General Economic Policy, Foreign Trade Promotion and digital Transformation

Since summer 2022 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UAE