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SUMMARY:CANCELED NYC: Transatlantic Economic Relations: Current Challenges and Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Dr. Berend Diekmann\, Head of Division for External Economic Policy at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.  \nRSVP (acceptances only) to the American Council on Germany at 212-826-3636 or events@acgusa.org. \nDr. Berend Diekmann is Head of the Division for External Economic Policy in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Prior to this\, he was Head of the Division for International Economic and Monetary Policy\, IMF\, and OECD Affairs. From 2003 to 2004\, he was Head of the Division for Business Cycle Analysis. As Chief Economic Adviser to the FDP in the German Bundestag from 1999 to 2003\, Dr. Diekmann was in charge of a broad range of economic issues that were decided upon in the German Bundestag\, including: competition policy\, public procurement\, international trade policy\, regulation of service professions\, labor market reforms\, market regulation\, and fiscal policy. In addition\, he served as an expert to the Parliamentary Study Commission on Globalization. As Deputy Head of Division responsible for fiscal policy and macroeconomic cooperation (from 1997 to 1998) and for strategic questions of economic policy (from 1998 to 1999)\, he designed guiding principles for economic policy formation in Germany and drafted speeches for the Minister. With regard to international economic and monetary policy\, Dr. Diekmann gained profound knowledge in analysis and negotiations serving as an Adviser to the Division for International Monetary Relations and EMU\, as well as Deputy Head of the Division for the Economics of Development Cooperation\, UNCTAD\, and World Bank. Prior to this\, he was posted in Geneva as Second Secretary at the German Permanent Mission\, advising on UN/ECE and GATT. Dr. Diekmann started his career in 1989 as an Adviser on the economics of environmental protection policy in the Division for Structural Policy within the Ministry of Economics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/nyc-transatlantic-economic-relations-current-challenges-and-perspectives/
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SUMMARY:NYC: “Future Challenges to the German-American Economic Relationship in the Trump Administration”
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Transatlantic Academy will host a discussion and luncheon with Dr. Wade Jacoby\, Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University; Dr. Harold James\, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University; and  Gideon Rachman\, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist for the Financial Times.  \nRSVP (acceptances only) to the American Council on Germany at 212-826-3636 or events@acgusa.org. \nDr. Wade Jacoby is a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy and a Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. His books include Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany and The Enlargement of the EU and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe. Dr. Jacoby has published articles in many journals\, including World Politics\, Comparative Politics\, Comparative Political Studies\, Politics and Society\, The Review of International Political Economy\, The Review of International Organizations\, and The British Journal of Industrial Relations. Dr. Jacoby previously was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College (1995-2000) and has been a Visiting Professor in Amsterdam\, Barcelona\, Bonn\, Berlin\, Brussels\, Copenhagen\, Cagliari\, and at the EUI in Florence. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and a B.A. in European Studies from Brigham Young University. \nDr. Harold James is a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies\, a Professor of History and International Affairs\, and Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society at Princeton University. He studies economic and financial history and modern German history\, and is writing a history of the International Monetary Fund. Dr. James was educated at Cambridge University (Ph.D. in 1982) and was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight years before going to Princeton University in 1986. His books include A German Identity\, 1770-1990 (1989)\, International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996)\, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (2001)\, Making the European Monetary Union (2012)\, and The Euro and the Battle of Ideas (2016\, with Jean-Pierre Landau\, and Markus K. Brunnermeier). He is also Marie Curie Visiting Professor at the European University Institute. \nGideon Rachman is a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy\, and has served as Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist for the Financial Times since July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist\, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels\, Washington\, and Bangkok. He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy\, the European Union\, and globalization. Mr. Rachman is the author of Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond (2017).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/nyc-future-challenges-to-the-german-american-economic-relationship-in-the-trump-administration/
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SUMMARY:NYC: Europe's Superwahljahr: New Challenges for Europe?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Alexander Graf Lambsdorff\, Vice President of the European Parliament.  \nAlexander Graf Lambsdorff (1997 Young Leader) has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 and currently serves as its Vice President. He also leads the German Free Democrats’ (FDP’s) delegation. He is a member of the International Trade Committee in the European Parliament. Until 2014\, Graf Lambsdorff served as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee for Culture and Education. He has focused on European Union enlargement and the United Nations\, while actively engaging in democracy support policies by leading EU election observation missions to several countries in Asia and Africa. Graf Lambsdorff joined the German Foreign Service in 1995. He served on the Russia Desk at the German Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs\, and worked in the Press Office of the German Embassy in Washington\, DC\, from 2000 to 2003 and on the Policy Planning Staff from 1997 to 2000. He is the co-founder of the Atlantic Initiative Germany and the German-Turkish Foundation\, and is a member of Atlantik-Brücke. He studied History\, Constitutional Law\, and International Relations at Bonn University and Georgetown University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/nyc-europes-superwahljahr-new-challenges-for-europe/
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