Georg SCHMIDT is German Ambassador to South Korea. He joined the Federal Foreign Office in 1995. His professional career included assignments at the Federal Chancellor’s Office and the Federal President’s Office always dealing with Asia, Africa and International Development. His last posting in Berlin was as Regional Director for Africa in the Federal Foreign Ministry (2014-2018).

His postings abroad were in Japan, Mali and Sri Lanka. Before his assignment in Seoul he served as German Ambassador in Thailand (2018-2023).

Georg SCHMIDT was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1963, studied history and economics at the University of Hong Kong (1988-1990) and earned a M.A. in Far Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (1992).