The Ambassador
Ambassador Dr. Michael Koch presented his credentials to President Zardari on October 31, 2008.
He was born in Kansas City (USA) as the son of a German diplomat on 30 September 1955 and attended schools in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bonn, Ottawa (Canada) and in Rabat (Morocco).
He is married and has three children.
Curriculum Vitae |
1973 | School leaving examination (Baccalauréat) |
1973 - 1978 | Study of law at the Universities of Tübingen and Bonn |
1978 | First Juridical State Examination |
1979 - 1981 | Postgraduate Legal Traineeship in Bielefeld |
1981 | Second Juridical State Examination |
1982 | Internship in a law office in Toronto, Canada |
1982 - 1986 | Assistent at the Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel |
April 1986 | Entrance into the Foreign Service |
1987 - 1988 | Desk Officer in the subdivision "European Community" in the Foreign Office, Bonn |
1990 | PhD (Dr. iur.) at the University of Bonn |
1988 - 1991 | Consulate General San Francisco (USA) |
1991 - 1995 | Personal Private Secretary of the Coordinator for German-American cooperation, Prof. Werner Weidenfeld, in the Foreign Office, Bonn |
1995 - 1998 | Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy Rangoon (Myanmar) |
1998 - 2001 | Head of a Task Force for Internal Reforms of the Foreign Service in the Central Department of the Foreign Office, first in Bonn, then in Berlin |
2001 - 2004 | Head of the Political Department at the German Embassy New Dehli (India) |
February 2004 | Head of the Special Task Force "Afghanistan" in the Foreign Office, Berlin |
Since August 2008 | Ambassador at the German Embassy Islamabad |
