Julia Gross is the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Hungary. She was born on 19 January 1963. After studying history, English language and political science at the Universities of Cologne and Aberdeen, Julia Gross completed her attaché training at the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1995. She then worked at the German embassies in Tirana (1996-1999) and London (2000-2003). In 2004, she moved to the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York for three years; in 2011, she became Permanent Representative of the German Embassy in Bucharest. After five years as Head of the Human Resources Department at the Federal Foreign Office Headquarters in Berlin, Gross became German Ambassador to Hungary in 2022.