Ruth Anne Herkes

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Anne Ruth Herkes
Anne Ruth Herkes is State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology since 2012. Prior to that, in 1985 and till 1987 she was training for the Higher Foreign Service. After that, she became Private Secretary to the Deputy Foreign Minister in the Federal Foreign Office. Starting in 1988 she worked first at the Germany Embassy in Washington and four years later, at the Germany Embassy in Tokyo. In 1996, Anne Ruth was part of the Permanent Mission of the OSCE in Vienna. Later on, in 2002 Ms. Herkes became Head of the Economic and Commercial Section at the German Embassy in London. Finally, in 2010 she was in charge of the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Ms. Herkes was born in Völklingen in 1965 and has a Degree in Romance Studies and Political Science in Berlin, Paris and London. She is married and has two children.

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