The Ambassador - Curriculum Vitae

Rüdiger Lüdeking

Permanent/Resident Representative
of the Federal Republic of Germany
to the Office of the United Nations
and to the other International
Organizations, Vienna

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Born 12 February 1954; married, four daughters

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1972-1974
served in German Armed Forces (Army); left with rank of lieutenant; following reservist service promotion to captain in 1983

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1974-1979
studied geography, English and philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf

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1977-1980 
part-time teaching at Freiherr-vom-Stein Grammar School, Lünen, and at Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf

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1980
entered the German Foreign Service

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1981
Member of the German Delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference

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1982-1983
European Political Cooperation Division, Foreign Office, Bonn

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1983-1985
First Secretary, German Delegation to the Mutual Balanced Force Reduction Talks (MBFR), Vienna

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1985-1987
Private Secretary to Minister of State Lutz G. Stavenhagen, Foreign Office, Bonn

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1987-1990
Deputy Head, German Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

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1990-1992
Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy, Windhuk, Namibia

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1992-1994
Deputy Head of Division, Security and Arms Control in Europe, Foreign Office, Bonn

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1994-1996
Deputy Head of Division, Parliamentary and Cabinet Affairs, Foreign Office, Bonn

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1996
Royal College of Defence Studies, London

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1996-2000
Head, Economic Affairs Department, German Embassy, London

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2000-2001
Director, Conventional Arms Control, Foreign Office, Berlin

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2001-2005
Director, Nuclear Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Foreign Office, Berlin

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2005-2008
Deputy Commissioner of the Federal Government for Arms Control and Disarmament, Foreign Office, Berlin

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Since 29 July 2008
Permanent/Resident Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations and to the other International Organizations, Vienna

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Personal interests: family, hiking, running, reading