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State Secretary for Development Policy Lotte Machon

State secretary for Development Policy 
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Career

2021-

State Secretary for Development Policy, Danish MFA

2019-2021
Director, Africa, Policy and Development, Danish MFA
2017-2019
Deputy-director, Global Development, Danish MFA
2015-2017 Deputy-director, Global Development, Danish MFA



2011-2015

Deputy Ambassador, Danish Embassy to Ethiopia, Sudan, South

Sudan, Djibouti, the African Union and the ECOWAS 

2007-2011 Private Secretary to two succeeding Danish Cabinet Ministers
2004-2007

 

First Secretary, Danish Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, during Danish seat at the Security Council (2005-06)

2001-2004                                

Head of section, Danish MFA (The Balkans, Peace & Stabilisation, Anti-terror, Development).

2000-2001                                    Research Assistant in Conflict Management, Danish Institute of
International Affairs

 

Education

2000                                         

Master's Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science,
supplementary studies in psychology (1998), BA in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen (1996)