Colonel (ret.) Wolfgang Richter is a member of the Security Policy Research Group at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (The German Institute for International and Security Affairs). Until 2009, he was Head of the Military Division of the Permanent Mission of Germany to the OSCE, Vienna, previously, among others, Head of Division for Global and European Arms Control at the Federal Armed Forces Verification Centre (Zentrum für Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr). This was preceded by assignments as a paratrooper officer and in the general staff, among others at the Federal Ministry for Defense (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, BMVg) and NATO Headquarters, Mons (Belgium).

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