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SUMMARY:Post-MSC Readout
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany and the Freundeskreis des American Council on Germany will host a discussion and reception with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook\, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and Benjamin Rohé\, CEO and Co-Founder of Monarch\, moderated by Sonja Gillert Head of Audio at “Welt.”[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fpost-msc-readout-tickets-1237569546829%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1738869714411{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin. She served previously as CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Ms. Clüver Ashbrook was executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge\, Massachusetts for ten years. The project\, which she co-founded\, addresses 21st-century foreign policy challenges through research by international leaders in academia and diplomacy as well as teaching conflict research and prevention. Beginning in 2018\, Ms. Clüver Ashbrook also directed a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations. Previously\, she served on the management board of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels and worked as both a consultant and senior journalist at Roland Berger \nStrategy Consultants in France and China\, among other countries. She began her career as a television journalist at CNN International in Atlanta and London. \nMs. Clüver Ashbrook contributes to international publications\, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post\, as well as leading German media on transatlantic relations – especially trade and security policy – and German foreign and digital policy. Additionally\, she advises foreign ministries in Europe and South America on their digital strategy. She received her undergraduate honors degree in international relations and French civilization from Brown University\, a master’s degree in European studies from the London School of Economics\, and a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Hauser Fellow in Non-Profit Management. \nBenjamin Rohé is dedicated to drive transformation and change\, with a focus on European digital sovereignty in security\, defense\, and innovation. After founding his first company at 17\, he co-founded as CEO the company MONARCH in 2021\, working alongside industry leaders such as Dr. Tom Enders\, Gerhard Schindler\, Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirsten\, James Tucker CMG OBE\, and Dr. Sandro Gaycken to tackle security challenges in an evolving world. MONARCH is an official partner of the Munich Security Conference. \nWith over 25 years of experience\, he is a regular speaker at universities and global conferences on corporate innovation\, digital change\, and resilience. His work has been featured in major publications such as Business Insider\, WirtschaftsWoche\, Huffington Post\, Manager Magazin\, and Handelsblatt. Benjamin Rohé is a 2011 ACG young leader and chairman of the ACG Freundeskreis. \nSonja Gillert is the head of audio and podcast host for WELT. Previously\, she served as an editor in the paper’s foreign policy department in Berlin. In 2015\, she spent three months in China with the Media Ambassador China Germany Program. In 2017 she was selected to attend the two-month Arthur F. Burns Fellowship for Journalists to conduct research in the United States. In 2023\, she completed an ACG Kellen Fellowship during which researched the influence of school boards and politics. \nMs. Gillert attended the journalist training program at Axel Springer Academy in Berlin and formerly worked as a freelance journalist at three of Germany’s major radio stations. She studied in Bonn and St. Andrews\, Scotland\, and earned her MA in Political Science and German Literature in 2009 at Bonn University. She currently sits on the Board of the Freunde des American Council on Germany e.V.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/post-msc-readout/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250512T080000
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SUMMARY:German-American Conference in Berlin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“2025 is Pivotal for Transatlantic Relations: New Security Challenges Require a New Security Architecture” \nMay 8\, 2025\, marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. The end of World War II ushered in a period of relative peace in Europe\, global democratization\, and economic integration\, as well as the establishment of robust international institutions. This was the last time the United States won an armed conflict definitively\, and conflict now looks a lot different than it did back then. \nToday we face a new security landscape. Land warfare has returned to Europe\, faith in longstanding political structures seems to be in retreat\, economic protectionism is on the rise\, and strong multilateral institutions appear to be relics of the past. Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine\, China’s coercive economic behavior\, and a growing axis of autocratic states raise an essential question for us: What is the meaning of war and peace today? As we see new governments in the United States and Germany and a new European Commission\, political leaders will face the task of developing a new strategic identity adapted to the new security environment. \nThis challenge comes at a pivotal moment for the Western industrialized world: We are confronted both with emerging external threats and struggles within our societies. With the German-American Conference 2025\, we provide a platform for strategic discussions about the challenges of a new era in transatlantic relations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/german-american-conference-in-berlin/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T120000
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SUMMARY:Perspective of a Foreign Correspondent:   Political Discourse and Social Cohesion in Germany and the United States
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Goethe-Institut will host a special Foreign Correspondent Unplugged in Berlin. \nThe American Council on Germany and the Goethe-Institut invites you to join us for the latest installment in our Foreign Correspondent Unplugged series\, which delves into current political debates on both sides of the Atlantic. \nIn a time of rapid change and complex challenges\, journalists play an essential role in informing the public and helping audiences make sense of events at home and abroad. How are current debates in Germany and the United States being covered\, and what parallels or contrasts can be drawn between the two countries? Clay Risen\, Reporter and Editor at The New York Times (2004 Young Leader)\, and Dr. Anna Sauerbrey\, Foreign Editor at Die Zeit (2018 ACG Kellen Fellow)\, will share their insights and experiences reporting on both sides of the Atlantic. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Steven E. Sokol\, President of the American Council on Germany.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fperspective-of-a-foreign-correspondent-tickets-1757531416779%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1760030607239{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Clay Risen is a Reporter and Editor at The New York Times. He is also the author of Red Scare: Blacklists\, McCarthyism\, and the Making of Modern America. He reported for the Times from Berlin for the month of May. Mr. Risen has been at The New York Times since 2010. Before writing obituaries\, he was a Senior Editor on the 2020 politics team\, and before that an Editor on the Opinion desk\, most recently as the deputy Op-Ed editor. Before joining the Times\, he worked at The New Republic and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He has written eight books\, some about U.S. history\, some about whiskey. They include American Rye and The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt\, the Rough Riders\, and the Dawn of the American Century. He holds a degree in International Relations from Georgetown University and a Master’s in Social Science from the University of Chicago. \nDr. Anna Sauerbrey is the Foreign Editor at the German largest weekly newspaper\, Die Zeit. Before assuming this position\, she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Der Tagesspiegel\, a daily newspaper based in Berlin. She has written about German politics in The New York Times and comments on German and international politics on public German radio and television programs. She has also appeared on German television and on CNN and the BBC world service. She is the author of Machtwechsel. Wie eine neue Politikergeneration das Land verändert (Rowohlt Berlin\, 2022) a book on the generation of German policymakers succeeding Angela Merkel.  Dr. Sauerbrey received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Mainz in 2009. She has also studied Political Science and Journalism. She was an Arthur F. Burns Fellow with the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2013 and has extensively written about transatlantic relations and U.S. domestic politics since. She was a ACG Kellen Fellow in 2018. \nDr. Steven E. Sokol (moderator) has been the President and CEO of the American Council on Germany since 2015. Previously\, he served as President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and prior to that he was the Vice President and Director of Programs at the American Council on Germany. Prior to this\, Dr. Sokol served as the Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin\, was the Head of the Project Management Department at the Bonn International Center for Conversion GmbH (BICC)\, and a Program Officer in the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He holds a Doctorate from Northeastern University as well as an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He has also studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Dr. Sokol serves on several non-profit boards and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was awarded a Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit) for his work to strengthen German-American relations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/perspective-of-a-foreign-correspondent-political-discourse-and-social-cohesion-in-germany-and-the-united-states/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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SUMMARY:Munich Event: "Must Europe Become More Independent from the United States? If so\, how?"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany and ZIRNGIBL Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB will host a discussion and reception with Simon Book\, U.S. Correspondent for DER SPIEGEL (2016 ACG Kellen Fellow) and Robin Quinville\,  Former Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Germany and Former Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program. \nSimon Book studied at the University of Passau and was trained at the German School of Journalism in Munich. From 2011 he served as an editor at the Financial Times Deutschland and from 2013 on as a reporter at Germany’s business daily Handelsblatt. In 2016\, he joined the business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. Since 2020\, Mr. Book is with Germany’s leading weekly magazine and news outlet DER SPIEGEL. Initially\, he wrote for the economics desk in Berlin\, and in October 2023 he took over as DER SPIEGEL’s business correspondent in the United States. In 2016\, he received a Kellen Fellowship from the American Council on Germany\, during which time he researched transatlantic trade policy. He lives with his wife and his three children in Berkeley\, California. \nRobin Quinville is the former Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program. She spent more than 30 years as a U.S. diplomat\, having served primarily in Europe – including postings to two multilateral organizations (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO) and bilateral postings to Cyprus\, Bosnia\, Greece\, the United Kingdom\, and Germany. She also spent a year in Baghdad\, Iraq. In Washington\, she directed the Office of Western European Affairs at the Department of State and served as a Wilson Center State Department Fellow for a year. Her last foreign posting was as the Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin\, Germany. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/munich-event-must-europe-become-more-independent-from-the-united-states-if-so-how/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T080000
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SUMMARY:Munich Event: “Allies at a Crossroads? Rethinking Transatlantic Security in a Disrupted World”
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany and KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft will host a breakfast briefing on “Allies at a Crossroads? Rethinking Transatlantic Security in a Disrupted World” with Lieutenant General Ben Hodges\, Retired Commanding General of United States Army Europe and Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller\, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at The Brookings Institution (1993 ACG Young Leader)\, moderated by Ambassador John B. Emerson\, Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany\, Vice Chairman at Capital Group International\, and Chairman of the American Council on Germany. \nLieutenant General Ben Hodges served as Commanding General of United States Army Europe from 2014 to 2017 before his retirement from the Army in early 2018. He is a Distinguished Fellow with GLOBSEC and consults for several companies on Europe\, NATO\, and the European Union. He is co-author of the book Future War and the Defense of Europe. Lt. Gen. Hodges has a regular presence in U.S. and international media\, where he offers insight and analysis on NATO\, U.S. and European security\, the Russian war against Ukraine\, the greater Black Sea and Baltic Sea Regions\, the Israel-Hamas war\, the U.S. Election and its implications for transatlantic security\, human rights\, and other related geostrategic topics. He most recently served as NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics. Prior to that\, he was an Advisor to Human Rights First\, a nonprofit\, nonpartisan international human rights organization based in the United States. Before joining Human Rights First\, Lt. Gen. Hodges held the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the\nCenter for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Lt. Gen. Hodges graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. He serves on the Board of the American Council on Germany. \nDr. Constanze Stelzenmüller (1993 ACG Young Leader) is an expert on German\, European\, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at Brookings. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020\, and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at\nBrookings from 2014 to 2019. Prior to working at Brookings\, Dr. Stelzenmüller was a Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)\, where she directed the influential Transatlantic Trends survey program. She also managed the “New Power\, New Responsibility” project. Her areas of expertise include:\ntransatlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign\, security\, and defense policy; international law; and human rights. Dr. Stelzenmüller is the former Director of GMF’s Berlin office. From 1994 to 2005\, she was Defense and International Security Editor in the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT; previously\, she had covered human rights issues\, war crimes tribunals\, and humanitarian crises. She has worked in Germany and the United States\, and speaks English\, French\, German\, and Spanish. Dr. Stelzenmüller holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (1992)\, a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988)\, and a law degree from the University of Bonn (1985). \nAmbassador John B. Emerson (moderator) was named Chairman of the American Council on Germany in January 2018. He is Vice Chairman at Capital Group International. Previously\, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2013 to 2017. In 2015\, Ambassador Emerson received the State Department’s Sue M. Cobb Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service\, an award given annually to one non-career Ambassador. In 2017\, the Secretary of the Navy and the Director of the CIA awarded him their highest civilian honors for his service. Prior to accepting the ambassadorial posting\, John B. Emerson was President of Private Client Services for the Capital Group Companies. Before joining Capital\, he was Deputy Assistant to President Clinton where he coordinated his economic conferences\, served as the president’s liaison to the nation’s governors\, and\nled the administration’s efforts to obtain congressional approval of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreement and the extension of China s MFN trading status. Additionally\, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Before working in the Clinton White House\, he served as Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney and was a partner in the law firm of Manatt\, Phelps\, Rothenberg\, and Phillips.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/allies-at-a-crossroads-rethinking-transatlantic-security-in-a-disrupted-world/
CATEGORIES:Germany Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260217T180000
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SUMMARY:Berlin Event: "After the MSC: Whither the Transatlantic Partnership in Troubled Times?"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The American Council on Germany and the Friends of the American Council on Germany (Freunde des American Council on Germany e.V.) will host a discussion and reception on “After the MSC: Whither the Transatlantic Partnership in Troubled Times?” with Cristina Gonzalez\, Executive Producer with POLITICO Europe and Anja Wehler-Schöck\, nternational Editor at Der Tagesspiegel on February 17\, 2026\, 6:00 – 7:30 PM. (Doors open at 5:30 PM; the event will be followed by a reception). To secure your seat\, RSVP Here by Friday\, February 13. \nCristina Gonzalez is POLITICO Europe’s Executive Producer for events and media partnerships. In this role\, she oversees POLITICO’s live journalism in Europe\, including its presence at the Munich Security Conference 2026. Prior to this\, Ms. Gonzalez was POLITICO Europe’s Executive Producer for audio/podcasts and lobbying reporter. She is also a Professor of Journalism Practice at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). \nMs. Gonzalez previously worked for Cox Media Group as a Senior Producer for local and nationally-syndicated radio in the United States. She was a Robert Bosch Fellow (2015-2016) at SPIEGEL Online and ZDF Morgenmagazin in Berlin and an ACG Young Leader in 2014. Her reporting\, analysis and producing has appeared on/been published in POLITICO Europe\, SPIEGEL Online\, Deutsche Welle\, ZDF\, NPR Berlin\, WSB Radio\, Rare.us. \nMs. Gonzalez holds a MSc degree in Communication Studies: Journalism and Media in Europe from the VUB and a B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from New York University (NYU). She serves on the Board of the Freunde des American Council on Germany e.V. \nAnja Wehler-Schöck is the International Editor of the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and member of its Editorial Board. In 2022\, she founded the paper’s international affairs desk\, which she subsequently headed until the end of 2024. Prior to that\, she worked as the Editor-in-Chief of the IPG Journal\, a debate platform for issues of international and European politics. She previously worked as a social affairs officer at the German Embassy in Washington and headed the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s office for Jordan and Iraq in Amman from 2012 to 2017. \nMs. Wehler-Schöck is a frequent commentator on international affairs\, European politics\, transatlantic relations\, and security policy. From 2005 to 2007\, she served as Adjunct Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin\, Germany. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Sciences Po in Paris\, France and the Free University of Berlin. \nMany thanks to CMS Hasche Sigle Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern mbB for hosting this event.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/munich-event-after-the-msc-whither-the-transatlantic-partnership-in-troubled-times/
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