Tobias Pierlings

Head of Division for External Economic Policy South and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania / German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), Berlin

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Jurist. (See-)Völkerrecht. Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht. Multilateralist. Verhandler. Freihändler. Transatlantiker. Anglo-, franko- und plattphil und -phon. Europäer. Weltgewandt. Asia Hand. Interkulturalist. Irgendeine Art von Diplomat. Arbeiter im Maschinenraum der Bundesregierung. Katzenfreund. Berater. Botaniker. Liebe zur See und zu Inseln. Geboren auf dem Bindestrich von Nordrhein-Westfalen. Aufgewachsen im Sauerland. Jurist geworden in Göttingen, Genf, Bonn und Phnom Penh. Verwurzelt in Berlin. Verheiratet mit einem Brandenburger. Gemeinsam anwurzelnd in Mecklenburg. Lawyer. International Law (of the Sea). Constitutional and Administrative Law. Multilateralist. Negotiator. Freetrader. Transatlanticist. Anglo-, Franco- and Low-Germanophile and -phone. European. Worldembracing. Asia Hand. Interculturalist. Diplomat of sorts. Worker in the engine room of the Federal German Government. Friend of cats. Advisor. Botanist. Keen on the Sea and on Islands. Born on the hyphen of North Rhine-Westphalia. Raised in the sticks. Turned into a lawyer in Göttingen, Geneva, Bonn, and Phnom Penh. Rooted in Berlin. Married to a Brandenburg man. Jointly rooting in Mecklenburg.

Experience

  • Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Lifetime Civil Servant · 18 yrs 2 mos)
    • Ministerialrat / Director
      Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

      Director, External Economic Policy Indo-Pacific, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), Berlin

    • Ministerialrat / Director
      Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 · 5 mos

      Special Mission: International Outreach Investment Screening

    • Chairman Interministerial Committee on Investment Guarantees of the Federal Republic of Germany
      Sep 2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Vorsitzender des Interministeriellen Ausschusses für Investitionsgarantien der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (IMA DIA: BMWK; AA, BMF, BMZ)

  • Head of German Delegation to the Paris Club at Paris Club Secretariat
    Sep 2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Multilateral Debt Policy

  • Head of German Delegation to UNCITRAL WG3 - Mulitlateral Investment Court at UNCITRAL: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
    Sep 2017 - Aug 2021 · 4 yrs

    Leiter der Deutschen Delegation zu den UNCITRAL-Verhandlungen über die Einrichtung eines multilateralen Investitionsgerichtshofes (Multilateral Investment Court, MIC), Wien und New York

  • International Seabed Authority (Berlin / Kingston, Jamaika)
    • President of the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA)
      Jun 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leitung der Sitzungen des IMB-Rates 2013/2014

    • Head of German Delegation to the International Seabed Authority (ISA)
      Sep 2011 - Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Delegationsleiter

  • Personal-/Vorstands-Stabsreferent +++ Desk Officer HR and Board Office at WestLB AG
    May 2007 - May 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Referent in der Personalabteilung und im Vorstandsstab „Sustainability Management“