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Ambassador Designate Ralf Beste

10.10.2025 - Article

Curriculum vitae

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
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