Vice President Katrin Hirseland , format: Article, area: Authority

• Katrin Hirseland has been Vice President of the Federal Office since 15 August 2022.
• From 2016 to 2022, she headed the Executive Staff of the Federal Office and from 2019 she additionally headed the Research Directorate-General.
• From 2012 to 2016, Katrin Hirseland was Head of the Office of the President and, until 2015, spokesperson for the Federal Office.
• From 2008 to 2012, she headed the “Nationwide integration programme”, “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Integration” and “Policy on integration” divisions in the Federal Office’s Integration Directorate-General.
• As a desk officer in integration, she worked amongst other roles in the Office of the Expert Council on Immigration and Integration, chaired by former Bundestag President Prof. Dr Rita Süssmuth.
• Before joining the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (then the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees) in 2003, Katrin Hirseland worked as a project manager in the area of integration and social cohesion at the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

Education:

Katrin Hirseland studied Political Science and Japanology in Tübingen, Seattle und Kyoto, as well as Intercultural Communication and European Studies in Fulda.

General information:

Katrin Hirseland was born in Tübingen in 1971, and is married.

Mrs Hirseland’s area of responsibility comprises the following:

• Directorate-General 1 (Central services, human resources, organisation, infrastructure)
• Directorate-General 2 (Digital technologies, CIO, innovation management)
• Directorate-General 3 (Business processes of asylum, statistics, Dublin procedure)
• Directorate-General 4 (Implementation of asylum procedures, regional coordination of integration - North, West and North-East Regions)
• Directorate-General 5 (Implementation of asylum procedures, regional coordination of integration - Central, South-West and South Regions)
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