Joachim Rücker

Predecessor	Søren Jessen-Petersen
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Profession	Diplomat

Joachim Rücker (born May 30, 1951, in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany) is a German international civil servant. He was named Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Kosovo and head of UNMIK on 1st September 2006 and is currently holding the position. Before that, he was the Deputy Special Representative and Head of the Economic Reconstruction component in UNMIK administration.

Before working for UNMIK, Rücker had served as the Commissioner for Finance and Head of the Budget and Finance Division at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and held various postings in the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn and German embassies abroad, including Dar es Salaam, Detroit (Consulate-General) and Vienna. He was also the Ambassador and Deputy High Representative for Administration and Finance in the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo and the Mayor of the city of Sindelfingen, Germany.

Rücker has a doctoral degree in international economics and has previously served as a foreign policy adviser to the Social Democratic parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.

External links

• UNMIK webpage biography