Dr Katharina Stasch, LL.M.
Born 26th February 1973 in Tübingen, Germany
WORK EXPERIENCE
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin, since September 2025
Director-General for multilateral development policy; transformation; climate
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, 2024-2025
Director-General for International Order, the United Nations and Arms Control
Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control
Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations and other International Organisations, Geneva, Switzerland. 2021-2025
Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Chairperson of the UNHCR Executive Committee, October 2023 – October 2024
Chairperson of the IOM Council Bureau, November 2023 – November 2024
Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council, 2022
Chairperson of the ILO Government Group, mid 2023 – mid 2024
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, 2018-2021
Chief of Staff, Head of Minister’s Office of Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin, 2014-2018
Chief of Staff, Head of Minister’s Office and Head of Policy Planning of Minister of Justice
Heiko Maas
Federal German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag), Social Democratic Party of Germany, Berlin, 2011-2013
First Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet of Thomas Oppermann
Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin, 2006-2011
Initially Desk Officer in the Capital Market Department, lastly Acting Head of the department
for Ministry and Parliamentary Affairs in the staff of Minister of Finance Peer Steinbrück
Latham & Watkins LLP, Hamburg, 2005-2006
Attorney (Specialising in European Law)
Legal Clerkship, Hamburg, Brussels, Berlin, 2002-2005
i.a. EU Commission, Brussels, and Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
University Hamburg, Institute for Foreign and Private International Law, Hamburg, 2000-2003
Senior Research Assistant, Prof Dr Peter Behrens
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2009
“Lender of Last Resort: Banking Crises and Crisis Resolution in the EU”
Second State Examination in Law, Higher Regional Court, Hamburg 2005
Master of Laws (LL.M.), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, 2000
First State Examination in Law, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 1999
University of Aix-Marseille, France, Law School, 1995-1996; University of Hamburg, Law School, 1993-1999, Faculty of Ethnology, 1993-1995;
Highschool A-levels, Ludwig-Uhland-Gymnasium, Kirchheim/Teck, 19
