ACG Chairman Garrick Utley, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union C. Boyden Gray, and ACG President William M. Drozdiak (left to right)

“Biotech to Biofuels: How New Technologies Are Changing Transatlantic Relations”
From January 11 through 13, 2007, the American Council on Germany held a conference on new technologies and their impact on the evolving transatlantic relationship titled “Biotech to Biofuels: How New Technologies Are Changing Transatlantic Relations.” The conference was conducted in La Jolla, California, in partnership with the University of California, San Diego, and with generous support from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Bayer Corporation, DaimlerChrysler, and Volkswagen. The purpose of the conference was to bring together some of the best minds from the worlds of politics, industry, science, and ideas from both sides of the Atlantic to consider how innovative technologies are transforming relations among leading democracies in the 21st century. The conference was designed to encourage leaders in the United States to draw upon the knowledge and practices of Germans in the field of biofuels and to explore how Germans increasingly look to the United States in the field of biotechnology. Policymakers, scientists, and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic will need to cooperate in these key fields if they are to contend with the wide range of global geopolitical challenges in the future.

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