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State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance and Chair of the Financial Stability Committee
Heiko Thoms was appointed as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in April 2023. He is responsible for financial market policy, European policy and international financial policy. From 2020 to 2023, he was German Ambassador to Brazil.
| Year | Career |
|---|---|
| Education | |
| 1987 – 1995 | Studied law, Islamic studies and Arabic studies in Bonn, Cairo, Geneva and Berlin, with stays in Cairo, Tunis and Damascus |
| 1995 | First state examination in law |
| 1996 – 1998 | Legal traineeship at the Berlin Higher Regional Court |
| 1998 | Second state examination in law |
| Professional Career | |
| 1998 – 1999 | Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg |
| 1999 – 2001 | Attaché training at the Federal Foreign Office |
| 2001 – 2003 | Consul at the German Embassy in Tehran |
| 2005 – 2007 | Representative of the German Ambassador on the EU Political and Security Committee, Brussels |
| 2007 – 2009 | European policy advisor to the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag |
| 2009 – 2011 | Deputy Chief of Staff, Federal Foreign Office |
| 2011 – 2013 | Chief of Staff, Federal Foreign Office |
| 2013 – 2017 |
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, New York Vice-President of the Executive Board of UNICEF (2014–2015) and UN Women (2015–2016) |
| 2017 – 2020 |
Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to NATO, Brussels |
| 2020 – 2023 |
German Ambassador to Brazil |
| April 2023 – present |
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance |
| Other functions | |
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Chair of the Financial Stability Committee | |
| Representative of the Federal Minister of Finance on the Board of Supervisory Directors of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) | |
| Chair of the Administrative Council of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) | |
| Member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) | |
| Alternate Governor of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and Member of the Board of Directors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM BoD) | |
| Member of the Board of Directors at the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) | |
| Alternate Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBWE) | |