Susanne Wasum-Rainer (born 31 July 1956) is a former German diplomat who has been serving as Germany's Ambassador to Israel between 2018 and 2022.

Early life and education

Born in Mainz, she passed her

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there in 1975. She started to study law at the University of Mainz, later studied at the University of Passau and the

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. She passed her first Staatsexamen in 1981 followed by the second Staatsexamen in 1984. She earned a doctorate at the University of Passau in 1983 with a thesis to ''Der internationale Seegerichtshof im System der obligatorischen Streitbeilegungsverfahren der Seerechtskonvention'' (The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the system of obligatory...), After two years of research at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, she started her training to be an officer in diplomatic service in 1986.

Diplomatic career

After completion of the training and completion of the Attaché career examination in 1989, Wasum-Rainer first worked in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and later at the embassy in Morocco. She returned to the Foreign Office before she was sent to the Embassy in Israel from 1991 to 1993 and staff member at the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva until 1997. In 2000, Wasum-Rainer returned to the Foreign Office and was first officer, after 2002 and 2006 Head of Unit Supervisor. From 2009 to 2012, head of the Legal Department of the Foreign Office and advisor on international law to the federal government. From 2012 until 2015, Wasum-Rainer served as

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; she was the first female person to hold the post and succeeded

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. Between 2015 and 2018 she served as Ambassador to Italy, and in 2018 she was appointed Ambassador to Israel.Manuel Bewarder and Daniel Friedrich Sturm (April 18, 2018)
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'' Die Welt''. Susanne Wasum-Rainer speaks besides her mother tongue, English, Italian and Hebrew.

Works

*Wasum-Rainer, Winkelmann, & Tiroch: ''Arctic Science, International Law and Climate Change: Legal Aspects of Marine Science in the Arctic Ocean'' Springer, 2012

References

External links

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CV (Lebenslauf) / Dr. Susanne Marianne Wasum-Rainer
German Embassy in Tel Aviv {{DEFAULTSORT:Wasum-Rainer, Susanne 1956 births Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni Living people Ambassadors of Germany to France Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Passau alumni 21st-century German diplomats 20th-century German diplomats Ambassadors of Germany to Israel German women ambassadors 20th-century German women 21st-century German women