Areas of Expertise

• EU policy coordination in Germany
• EU external relations, including neighborhood policy
• EU enlargement

Short Bio

Rainer Rudolph, an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), has been the German Ambassador to Kosovo since October 2025. Before that, he was deputy chair of the Munich Security Conference. During his previous postings abroad, Rudolph served at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU in Brussels and at the German Embassies in Warsaw; Washington, DC; and Vienna. In Berlin, he has worked twice at the Federal Chancellery, including in its European Affairs Department as head of division for EU external relations, EU enlargement, and relations with EU member states.

Rudolph studied history and German language and literature in Tübingen, Berlin, and Aix-en-Provence.

Languages

German, English, French

[Last updated: October 2026]