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Ambassador Sebastian Groth
H.E. Sebastian Groth, H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta and Amb. Raychelle Omamo stand together for a photo., © Presidential Strategic Communication Unit, State House Kenya
Since August 2022, Mr Sebastian Groth is the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Kenya. The Head of Mission is also accredited as Ambassador to the Seychelles, Somalia, and as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and to the United Nations Human Settlements Program UN-HABITAT, based in Nairobi.
Curriculum Vitae
Born on 27 March 1973, Aachen, Germany | Languages: German, English, French
| Since 2022 | German Ambassador to the Republic of Kenya, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republic of Seychelles, and to UNEP and UN-HABITAT |
| 2019 - 2022 | Director for Policy Planning at the German Federal Foreign Office |
| 2016 - 2019 | Deputy Director for Policy Planning at the German Federal Foreign Office |
| 2014 - 2016 | Head of the State Secretaries’ Office at the German Federal Foreign Office |
| 2010 - 2014 | Adviser for Foreign Policy and French-German relations in the Cabinets of the French Prime Ministers François Fillon, Jean-Marc Ayrault et Manuel Valls at the German Embassy in Paris |
| 2004 - 2010 | Desk officer of the Policy Planning Staff of the German Federal Foreign Office, working on energy and climate policy and on global economic affairs |
| 2001 - 2004 | First Secretary at the German Embassy in Nairobi, working on Somalia, South Sudan and Burundi and as Political Counsellor, Press and Cultural Attaché |
| 2000 - 2001 | Federal Foreign Office training academy |
| 1994 - 2000 | Studied economics and sociology at the University of Cologne and in Montpellier, France |
| 1992 - 1994 | Commercial assistant trainee program, BASF AG Ludwigshafen |