[1] In 1993 Ory was appointed as the Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, serving there for two years.

[1][2] She was succeeded by Michael Zickerick as Director-General in 2011, and became the Director of the German Foreign Office's Southeast Asia and Pacific Department.

[14] She disclosed that the Embassy of Germany, Abuja was working closely with Nigerian government agencies and local communities to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, including starting an initiative to provide free face masks and hand washing stations throughout the country.

[14] The resources provided were produced by women tailors from disadvantaged communities to help improve income opportunities as well as communal health.

[15] In September 2020 she helped plead on the behalf of the European Union for Nigeria to lift airspace restrictions against KLM, Air France, and Lufthansa.

[16] Also that month, she spoke at the opening of a rehabilitation center in Kaduna built by the German Technical Advisory Group as part of Germany's Equipment Aid Programme initiative.