[1] Her first assignment abroad was from 1991 to 1994 as a consultant for environmental and transport issues at the German Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.
From 1999 to 2002, she was the personal assistant to the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Bodo Hombach, in Brussels.
In this role, she headed the “Special Migration Staff”, which Foreign Minister Steinmeier had formed across departments and which supported a working group at state secretary level in the Federal Chancellery on issues relating to the management of migration via south-eastern Europe in the European migrant crisis.
[3] From 2017 to 2022, Grzeski was the Ambassador's permanent representative in Moscow, Russia, while her husband headed the EU delegation there.
[1] On July 10, 2022, Foreign Minister Baerbock announced in Palau that Grzeski would now act as “Special Envoy for the Pacific Island States” based in Canberra.