Leadership of the ministry Niels Annen

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Born 6 April 1973 in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg

1992
Graduated from the Peter Petersen School, Hamburg,
with the university entrance qualification certificate

1993 to 1994
Compulsory non-military national service, served with the Regional Youth Council, Hamburg

1994
Commenced studies at Hamburg University (History and Latin American Studies)

1997 to 1998
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

2000 to 2002
Vice-President of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), Vienna

2001 bis 2004
Chairman of the Federal Executive Board of the Young Socialists (Jusos – SPD youth organisation)

2003 to 2019
Member of the SPD Executive Committee

2005 to 2009
Member of the German Bundestag, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and alternate member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid

2010
Bachelor of Arts, History and Spanish, Humboldt University, Berlin

2010 to 2011
Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund, Washington D.C., USA

2011
Master of International Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA

2011 to 2013
Advisor for International Policy Analysis, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin

since 2013
Member of the German Bundestag, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (until 2018) and alternate member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2018)

2014 to 2015
Member of the Commission on the Review and Safeguarding of Parliamentary Rights regarding Mandates for Bundeswehr Missions Abroad

from 2014 to 2018 and from 2005 to 2009
Deputy Spokesman of the Parliamentary Left within the SPD Parliamentary Group

2014 to 2019
Chairman of the Commission on International Politics of the SPD

2014 to 2017
Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia

2014 to 2018
Spokesman on Foreign Affairs of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag

2018 to 2024
Member of the steering group of the Parliamentary Left within the SPD Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag

2018 to 2021
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office

since December 2021
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development