Ms Susanne FRIES-GAIER is currently the Deputy Director General for Humanitarian Assistance in the German Foreign Office. Prior to her current position Ms FRIES-GAIER was seconded to the Federal Chancellery from 2018 to 2021 as Head of Division of United Nations, Global Issues, Sub-Saharan Africa and Sahel. Ms FRIES-GAIER held the position as Head of Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva from 2017 to 2018. From 2013 to 2017 Ms FRIES-GAIER was the Deputy Head of Division of the UN policy division responsible for Security Council Policies, General Assembly Matters and Sanctions in the Department for International Order of the German Federal Foreign Office. From 2010 to 2013 Ms FRIES-GAIER worked as a Counsellor in the political department of the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York. During Germany's time as a non-permanent member of the Security Council 2011/12 she was inter alia responsible for the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.

Ms FRIES-GAIER has also held positions in the Division for Human Resources, the Press Division and the Legal Department of the Federal Foreign Office and was appointed to the German Embassy in Beijing/China where she held the position of Senior Desk Officer for Chinese political affairs.

Ms FRIES-GAIER is married and has three children.