page_title: Helga Schmid
section_title: Career and policy
hierarchical_section_title: Helga Schmid / Career and policy
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - flanked by National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer - sits across from European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and other advisers on June 28, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, before they exchange notes about ongoing negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear program. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]
context_page_description: Helga Maria Schmid is a European diplomat and the Secretary General of the European External Action Service.
context_section_description: She has worked in various positions within the German government since 1988 and was assistant private secretary to the minister for European Affairs between 1990 and 1991. From 1991 to 1994 she was the press and public affairs officer for the German embassy in Washington, D.C.. From 1994 to 1998 Schmid worked as a political adviser to Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. She held the same position from 1998 to 2000 with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. Between 2000 and 2005, she followed various executive positions at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin. Among them she was Head of the Political Staff and Head of the Ministerial Office from 2003 to 2005, until she became Director of the Policy Planning and Early Warning Unit of the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy in 2006, Javier Solana, in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels.
  Following the founding of the European External Action Service, Schmid became deputy secretary-general for political affairs in 2010. In this capacity, she was involved in negotiations for the Nuclear program of Iran. The task was to negotiate with Abbas Araghchi and continue the high level discussions, while the technical level was ongoing. In the negotiations for the EU-3 nuclear agreement with Iran, Schmid was the lead author of the 100-page treaty which was successfully concluded in 2015, while holding the consent of current president Rouhani, who at the time was the Iranian Chief Negotiator in the Nuclear Dispute
caption: Exchange of notes during the negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear program in 2015
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