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Ambassador David Gill
Ambassador David Gill, © German Embassy Dublin
David Gill
Born on 2 March 1966 in Schönebeck / Elbe; married, two children
Since August 2024 | Ambassador to Ireland |
2017 - 2024 | Consul General in New York |
2012 - 2017 | State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Federal President |
2004 - 2012 | Deputy Representative of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) to the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union |
2001 - 2003 | Desk officer, Office of Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Berlin |
2000 - 2001 | Desk officer, Federal Ministry of the Interior |
2000 | Second State Examination in Law |
1998 - 2000 | Legal clerkship |
1998 | Internship at the United States Congress, Washington D.C. |
1997 - 1998 | Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
1997 | First State Examination in Law |
1992 - 1996 | Law studies at the Freie Universität Berlin |
1991 | Awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal |
1990 - 1992 | Spokesman and Head of Division of the Federal Commissioner for the Files of the State Security Service of the former GDR (Stasi) |
1990 | Head of Administration, Parliamentary Special Committee for the Dissolution of the GDR Ministry of State Security / Office of National Security (Stasi) |
1990 | Chairman of Normannenstraße Citizens' Committee at the Headquarters of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) |
1988 - 1990 | Theological Seminary of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg |
1988 | Baccalaureate at the Protestant High School, Potsdam |
1982 - 1985 | Plumber, Herrnhut |
1972 - 1982 | Ten-year Polytechnic School, Herrnhut |