I whanau a Baumann i Schramberg, i reira i whiwhi ai ia i tana Abitur i te tau 1973 mai i te Gymnasium Schramberg. I ako ia i nga pūtaiao hapori me te whakahaere i te Whare Wananga o Konstanz, e tohunga ana ki te whakahaere o te ao, a i te tau 1975 i ako i te hitori o te toi i te Whare Wananga o Bristol, i te United Kingdom. I whiwhi ia i tana tohu i te whakahaere a te iwi i te 1979 mai i te Whare Wananga o Konstanz ka haere ki te whiwhi i tetahi tohu taote i roto i te putaiao tōrangapū i te 1992 mai i te Whare Wananga o Carleton i Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ko tana wahine, ko Barbara Gibson, he kaitono Kanata. I mahi ia mai i te 2004 ki te 2008 hei karere ki te Whakahaere mo te Haumarutanga me te Whakaaetanga i Europe i Vienna, i te 2015 hei Kaiwhakahaere-Tumuaki-Tianara me te 2016 hei Hekeretari-Tianara o te ICM, te Komihana Motuhake mo te Multilateralism (MIC) i New York.
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