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Ambassador David Gill

Ambassador David Gill

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23.10.2024 - Article

David Gill

Born on 2 March 1966 in Schönebeck / Elbe; married, two children


Since August 2024Ambassador to Ireland
2017 - 2024Consul General in New York
2012 - 2017State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Federal President
2004 - 2012Deputy Representative of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) to the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union
2001 - 2003Desk officer, Office of Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Berlin
2000 - 2001Desk officer, Federal Ministry of the Interior
2000Second State Examination in Law
1998 - 2000Legal clerkship
1998Internship at the United States Congress, Washington D.C.
1997 - 1998Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1997First State Examination in Law
1992 - 1996Law studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
1991Awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal
1990 - 1992Spokesman and Head of Division of the Federal Commissioner for the Files of the State Security Service of the former GDR (Stasi)
1990Head of Administration, Parliamentary Special Committee for the Dissolution of the GDR Ministry of State Security / Office of National Security (Stasi)
1990Chairman of Normannenstraße Citizens' Committee at the Headquarters of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi)
1988 - 1990Theological Seminary of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg
1988Baccalaureate at the Protestant High School, Potsdam
1982 - 1985Plumber, Herrnhut
1972 - 1982Ten-year Polytechnic School, Herrnhut

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