Niels Annen

Niels Annen
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office
In office 2018–2021
Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
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Born	(1973-04-06) 6 April 1973 (age 51) Eimsbüttel, Hamburg, West Germany
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin Johns Hopkins University
Occupation	Politician, Member of the German Bundestag (MP)
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Niels Annen (born 6 April 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.^[1] He served as Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office from 2018 to 2021 in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He has served as member of the Bundestag since 2013. After his first term in the Bundestag from 2005 to 2009, Annen was a Senior Transatlantic Resident at the German Marshall Fund in Washington between 2010 and 2011. From 2011 until 2013 he worked for the department for International Policy Analysis of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. Annen has served on the executive board of the SPD since 2003 after being chairman of the Young Socialists, the youth organization of the SPD, from 2001 to 2004.