ASG Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven

Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven is NATO's first Assistant Secretary

General for Intelligence and Security. He took up his post on 1

December 2016. He is responsible for providing intelligence support

to the North Atlantic Council and the Military Committee as well as for

advising the Secretary General onintelligence and security matters.

His tasks include setting up the new Joint Division and thus merging

NATO's civilian and military intelligence strands. Prior to his

appointment as Assistant Secretary General he served as German

Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2014 - 2016).
 

Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven was born on 12 November 1956 in

Munich, Germany. He graduated from New College, Oxford, in

1980 (Master of Arts) and earned a PhD degree from the

Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany (1984).
He joined the German Foreign Ministry in 1986. Having served at the

German Embassies in Paris and Moscow he also held various posts in

the Foreign Ministry such as member of policy planning Staff, speech writer of the Minister, European
correspondent and Director of European Affairs. From 2007 - 2010 he was Vice President of the German Intelligence Service.