^{Since 9/2021 Ambassador to Nepal, German Embassy Kathmandu
2018 - 2021 Director General of the German Institute Taipei
2015 - 2018 Ambassador to Bangladesh, German Embassy Dhaka
2012 - 2015 Director Foreign Trade Promotion, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
2011 - 2012 Senior Political Advisor, Directorate General for Strategy and Missions, Ministry of Defense, Berlin
2010 - 2011 German Embassy Canberra, Deputy Head of Mission
2010 - German Consulate General Shanghai, Head of the Economic Department
2008 - 2010 German Embassy Tokyo, Political Counselor
2007 - 2008 International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Kabul, Political Advisor to COMISAF
2005 - 2007 Dep. Director, Public Diplomacy of the German EU-Presidency Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
2000 - 2005 EU-Division, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Counselor
1997 - 2000 German Embassy Jakarta, 1st Secretary, Cultural Affairs
1993 - 1997 German Embassy, Bucarest, 1st Secretary, Political Department
1992 - 1993 Federal Foreign Office, Bonn, 2nd Secretary, Cultural Department
1990 - 1992 Federal Foreign Office, Bonn, Attaché
1998 - 2005 Participation in EU Election Observation missions}

_Education:

_{University of Heidelberg, South Asia Institute, PhD}

_{University of Giessen, Political Science, History, Literature, State Exam}

_{Dr. Thomas Prinz was born 1959 in Wetzlar, Germany, is married and has five grown up children}