the SPD. Between 2005 and 2009, he also served as Deputy Chairman of the German-Spanish Parliamentary Friendship Group. Under controversial circumstances Annen was deselected for the 2009 election, losing a primary election to Danial Ilkhanipour by 45 votes to 44. Ilkhanipour lost the seat at the 2009 election to the CDU candidate Rüdiger Kruse. In March 2010, Annen joined the German Marshall Fund as a Senior Fellow in Washington, D.C., for a six-month term. Between 2011 and 2013, he served as director of European policy analysis at the Berlin headquarters of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, whose aim is to promote democracy, political education, and promote students of outstanding intellectual abilities and personality Annen returned to the Bundestag at the 2013 election, regaining the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel district from the CDU. He soon re-entered the leadership of the Parliamentary Left in 2014. He also serves as chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Between 2014 and 2015, he represented his parliamentary group in a crossparty committee headed by former defense minister Volker Rühe to review the country's parliamentary rules on military deployments. Within the SPD, Annen serves as chairman of the SPD's Commission for International Politics, alongside Martin Schulz. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and Sigmar Gabriel. Annen co-chaired the SPD's national conventions in Dortmund (2017) Wiesbaden (2018) and Berlin (2019). Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, 2018-2021 In March 2018, Annen was appointed Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office in the fourth Merkel Cabinet, alongside Michael Roth and Michelle Müntefering. Other activities Corporate boards German Investment Corporation (DEG), Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2022) International organizations Asian Development Bank (ADB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2022) Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2022) Non-profit organizations Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2022) German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), Ex-Officio Member of the Board (since 2022) European Council on Foreign Relations, Member German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Member of the Presidium German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Member