Areas of Expertise

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

Short Bio

DGAP associate fellow Rainer Rudolph is deputy head of mission at the German Embassy Vienna. In 2019/2020, he worked at DGAP as a senior fellow.

From 2014 until 2019, Rudolph was head of division at the German Federal Chancellery, where he was responsible for relations with EU member states, EU enlargement, and EU external relations. Previously, he worked for the German Foreign Ministry with postings at the German Embassy in Warsaw and Washington, DC, as well as at the Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels.