Ambassador Ulrich Seidenberger

Dr. Ulrich Seidenberger is Deputy Director of the NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence, based in Montréal. He has been appointed by the German Federal President as German Ambassador for the Nexus on Climate Change and Security for his interaction with International Organizations and conferences. Dr. Seidenberger has been serving in the German Diplomatic Service for 33 years.
In previous assignments he served as German Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN Organizations based in Rome (WFP, FAO, IFAD) from 2018 to 2022. He was elected President of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP) in 2020.
He also served as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva from 2015 to 2018. During this assignment Dr. Seidenberger was elected Chairperson of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO) 2016 for one year.
Other previous assignments comprised a term as a political Counsellor for the U.N. Security Council at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2005, as well as bilateral postings to Jamaica, Romania and Finland.
Before entering the German Foreign Service, he trained as a lawyer at the universities in Munich, Lausanne/Switzerland and Würzburg, where he was awarded his ph.D. (Dr. iuris utriusque).