Angelina Julietta Francisca Eichhorst is a

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diplomat and European civil servant, currently serving as managing director for Europe and Central Asia at the

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Career

European External Action Service

In September 2010 HRVP

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announced the first class of European Union ambassadors to be posted abroad following the entry into force of the

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. Eichhorst served from January 2011 to August 2015 as European Untion ambassador / Head of the European Union delegation to

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2011/Jan-08/60355-new-eu-envoy-eichhorst-presents-credentials-to-president.ashx#axzz2phBF0Y65 , New E.U. envoy Eichhorst presents credentials to president. In July 2015 Eichhorst was appointed by EU HRVP

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as Deputy Managing Director / Director Western Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey at the

in Brussels. During this period she was also the EU Chief Negotiator for the EU HRVP Facilitated Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue. On 1 September 2019, Eichhorst took charge of

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's portfolio as acting managing director for Europe and Central Asia and on 1 June 2020 EU HRVP

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confirmed Eichhorst as managing director. She served for three Secretary Generals at the

Pierre Vimont Pierre Vimont (born 15 June 1949) is a French diplomat who served as the Executive Secretary-General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) from 2010 until 2015. His current rank in the French civil service is "Ambassadeur de France", which ...

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and

Helga Schmid Helga Maria Schmid (born 8 December 1960 in Dachau, West Germany) is a German diplomat who has been serving as the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) since 2020. Prior to that appointment (from ...

European Commission

Eichhorst joined the

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in Brussels in 1996, where at the then DG IB External relations, led by Ambassador DG Juan Prat, she held various positions in charge of the Euro-Mediterranean

Barcelona Process The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM; french: Union pour la Méditerranée, ar, الإتحاد من أجل المتوسط ''Al-Ittiḥād min ajl al-Mutawasseṭ'') is an intergovernmental organization of 43 member states from Europe and the M ...

- now Union for the Mediterranean. She covered operations in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

and

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. From 2000 to 2003 she worked for the then DG VIII - now DG DEVCO - led by Ambassador DG Stefano Manservisi and DG Koos Richelle - as national expert seconded from the then ODA led by

Clare Short Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Development, Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003. Short was the Member of Parliament ...

. She worked to initiate EU global policies on human and social development, corporate social responsibility, global public goods, sexual and reproductive health and rights. During part of this period she was the alternative board member for the EU at

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assisting Dr.

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who was the EU member of the GFATM founding Board and later the co-chair of the Board. Substantial work was done with DG Trade on access to medicines. In 2004 Eichhorst moved to

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

as Head of Development and Regional Cooperation at the EU Delegation to

also covering EU interventions in

. In 2008 she was promoted to head the Political and Economic Affairs, Press, Information and Culture department at the EU Delegation in

Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

where she worked and lived until she took up her position as European Union ambassador in

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

, Lebanon.

Pre-EU institutions

Before joining the EU institutions, between 1989 and 1996, Eichhorst worked for the

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Secretariat in

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in the Office for Research and Collection of Information directly attached to

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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (; ; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as Prime Mini ...

, and served as Political Affairs Officer to the Forces Commander of UNOSOM I, the first United Nations Operation in

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

. She held advisory and management positions in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

, Egypt (at the Netherlands Flemish Institute;

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Marketing Egypt;

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; North South Consultants Exchange). Ambassador Eichhorst holds two MA degrees: languages and cultures of the Middle East, Catholic University in Nijmegen, with her thesis on Egyptian women writers; and international relations, Université libre de Bruxelles, describing the challenges of

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's Mediterranean Dialogue. She has special degrees in international law, human rights and the law of international organisations.

References

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