The diplomat Boris Ruge (61), currently Deputy Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), is to replace his German colleague Bettina Cadenbach and become NATO Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy.
Profile
Ruge joined the Foreign Service in 1989. Prior to joining the MSC, he was Commissioner for the Middle East and North Africa at the Federal Foreign Office, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Deputy Ambassador to the USA. He has also focussed on security policy and the Western Balkans. During the NATO operation against Serbia in 1999, he worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels and later served as political advisor to two commanders of the NATO forces in Kosovo (KFOR).
Ambassador Ruge studied at the University of Cologne, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, both in the USA. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London/UK.
NATO
NATO has a total of eight deputy secretaries general. Ruge is expected to take up the post under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this year.
Source: MSC, DPA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH)
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