Bernhard Graf von Waldersee

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Bernhard Graf von Waldersee
Graf von Waldersee joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981 after graduating in Law Studies. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has worked in the Department of Political Affairs, the Department of Economic Affairs and the Department for the United Nations and Global Affairs.

From 1995 to 1998 he took leave from the Foreign Service and worked as Foreign Policy Advisor of a Parliamentary Party Group of the Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament).

Between 1983 and 2009, various postings in German Embassies abroad took Bernhard Graf von Waldersee to Washington, Athens, Lusaka/Zambia, Geneva, London and Brasilia. From 2007 to 2009, he served as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Montevideo/Uruguay.

In August, 2009, Ambassador Bernhard Graf von Waldersee was appointed Director General for Latin American and Caribbean Affairs in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin/Germany.

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