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Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the European Communities to the WTO

1973 -.1974 Post-doctoral Fellow at the Michigan State University, East-Lansing, U.S.A.

1974 - 1979 Ministry of Agriculture in Bonn

1979 - 1984 European Commission - Member of the Cabinet of Vice-President Haferkamp

1985 - 1990 Directorate-General for External Relations Division Agriculture and Fisheries

1990 - 1993 Directorate-General for External Relations Head of Unit Agriculture and Fisheries

1993 - 1995 Directorate-General for External Relations Head of Unit Relations with the United States of America

1995 - 1999 Directorate-General for the Budgets Director of Expenditure

1999 - 2002 Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Michaele Schreyer

2002 - 2006 Secretariat General Deputy Secretary General

Since 2007 Permanent Representative of the European Commission to the International Organisations in Geneva, Geneva Delegation