Emily Margarethe Haber (''née'' Oncken; born in 1956) is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018: from 2011 to 2013, at the

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and from 2014 to 2018, at the

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. She is currently serving as German Ambassador to the

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Early life and education

Emily Haber is the daughter of the German diplomat . From 1975 to 1980, she studied history and ethnology in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, earning her PhD with a dissertation on German foreign policy during the

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. She is married to the German diplomat

Hansjörg Haber Hansjörg Haber (born 21 February 1953) is a former German diplomat. From 2015 to 2016 he was head of the Delegation of the European Union in Turkey, and served as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Yemen from 2017 to October 2018. ...

Career

After joining the German Foreign Service, Haber worked as a desk officer in the Federal Foreign Office division covering relations to the Soviet Union, as a political affairs officer at the German Embassy in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, as cultural affairs officer at the German Embassy in

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, and as Deputy Head of the Cabinet and Parliamentary Liaison Division of the Federal Foreign Office in

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. In 1999, she returned to the German Embassy in Moscow, serving first as Head of the Economic Affairs Section, then as Head of the Political Affairs Department, until 2002. From 2002 to 2006, she served as Director of the OSCE Division and Commissioner for Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management in the Euro-Atlantic Framework at the Federal Foreign Office in

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. Thereafter, she assumed the function of Commissioner for Southeastern Europe and Turkey, serving from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, Haber served as Director-General for Political Affairs of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, becoming the first woman to hold this post. She was appointed to the position of State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office by Minister

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in 2011, again becoming the first woman to assume this role. From 2014 to 2018, she served as State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of the Interior under the leadership of Minister

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, where she was responsible for security, migration, and integration. During her tenure as State Secretary, she has been criticized for her involvement in the treason investigation against Netzpolitik.org journalists, having failed to escalate the investigation to the Minister

. Haber became the German Ambassador to the United States on June 22, 2018.

Other activities

* International Journalists’ Programmes, Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program, Member of the Board of Trustees *

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(SWP), Member of the Council (2014-2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haber, Emily 1956 births Living people Ambassadors of Germany to the United States University of Cologne alumni 21st-century German diplomats German women ambassadors 21st-century German women