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Ambassador Designate Ralf Beste
Born on 21.06.1966 in Witten, Germany
Married with two children
| since 10/2025 | Ambassador Designate to Indonesia |
| 2022 - 2025 | Director General for Culture and Society in the German MFA |
| 2019 - 2022 | Ambassador in Austria |
| 2017 - 2019 | Director for Policy Planning in the German MFA |
| 2016 - 2017 | Director for Strategic Communication in the German MFA |
| 2014 - 2016 | Deputy Director for Policy Planning in the German MFA |
| 2001 - 2014 | Correspondent for “Der Spiegel” news magazine |
| 1996 - 2001 | Correspondent for “Berliner Zeitung” national newspaper |
| 1994- 1996 | Press Secretary for the Finance Ministry of Rhineland-Palatine |
| 1992- 1994 | Reporter for “Ruhr Nachrichten” local newspaper |
| 1992 | Magister Artium, History, University of Bielefeld |
| 1990 | Master of Arts, History, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 1987 - 1992 | Student in Bochum, Bielefeld and Baltimore |
| 1985 - 1986 | Military Service Neumünster |
| 1976 - 1985 | Schiller Gymnasium Witten, Abitur |