Germany’s Zeitenwende: Setting New Priorities in Foreign, Security, and Energy Policy
2022-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
On October 27, the Seattle Warburg Chapter and the World Affairs Council in Seattle will host a discussion and luncheon with Ambassador (ret.) Stefan Schlüter, Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy of the German Foreign Office in Berlin.
Stefan Schlüter served in the German Foreign Office until the summer of 2017 and is now a Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy in Berlin. After studying political science at the University of Hamburg, Mr. Schlüter joined the German Foreign Office in 1979. His first foreign assignments brought him to Buenos Aires and Algiers. From 1986 to 1990, he served as the spokesman of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv before returning to the Foreign Office in Bonn as desk officer for the Maghreb countries. From 1992 to 1995, he served as Deputy Consul General in Los Angeles before returning to Bonn as Deputy Director for the southern part of Latin America. From 2000 to 2004, he was posted to the United States a second time, and served as Deputy Consul General in New York City before moving to Buenos Aires as Deputy Chief of Mission. In 2007, he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin to assume the position of Director for Conflict Prevention, Peace-Building, Democracy Promotion, and State-Building, furthering German projects in this field worldwide. In 2010, he was appointed Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean Region, residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, before moving on to his last assignment as Consul General in San Francisco in 2014.

Germany’s Zeitenwende: How It’s Being Viewed in Different Regions of the U.S.”
2022-10-31 12:00 - 14:00
On October 31, the ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Ambassador (ret.) Stefan Schlueter, Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy of the German Foreign Office in Berlin.
Stefan Schlüter just completed a speaking tour to North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Washington, and Minnesota with the ACG. He met with a range of people, and will reflect on his trip. Mr. Schlüter served in the German Foreign Office until the summer of 2017 and is now a Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy in Berlin. After studying political science at the University of Hamburg, Mr. Schlüter joined the German Foreign Office in 1979. His first foreign assignments brought him to Buenos Aires and Algiers. From 1986 to 1990 he served as the spokesman of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv before returning to the Foreign Office in Bonn as desk officer for the Maghreb countries. From 1992 to 1995 he served as Deputy Consul General in Los Angeles before returning to Bonn as Deputy Director for the southern part of Latin America. From 2000 to 2004, he was posted to the United States a second time and served as Deputy Consul General in New York City before moving to Buenos Aires as Deputy Chief of Mission. In 2007 he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin to assume the position of Director for Conflict Prevention, Peace-Building, Democracy Promotion and State-Building, promoting German projects in this field world-wide. In 2010 he was appointed Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean Region, residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago before moving on to his last assignment as Consul General in San Francisco in 2014.

Building European Sovereignty in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil
2022-11-01 10:00 - 11:00
In recent years, Europe has faced major foreign policy challenges – including the 2008 global financial crisis, the migration crisis of 2015, the COVID-19 pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine. At the same time, Europe has had to grapple with issues such as China’s global ambitions and the rise of populism.
In a European context, foreign policy is shaped at the national level, but it is coordinated to some degree within the frameworks of the European Union, NATO, and to a certain degree, other multilateral frameworks such as the G7 and the United Nations. How has the war in Ukraine impacted European foreign policy, and what are the prospects for the future development of European foreign and security policy against the backdrop of this conflict? How do countries manage to balance national interests and policies with coordinated multilateral efforts? Join the American Council on Germany for a discussion about European sovereignty with Dr. Jana Puglierin, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and head of its Berlin office. Dr. Jana Puglierin is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and has been Head of its Berlin office since January 2020. Her work focuses on German and European foreign, security, and defense policy, as well as Germany’s role in Europe and transatlantic relations. She also directs ECFR’s Re:shape Global Europe project, which seeks to develop new strategies for Europeans to understand and engage with the changing international order.
She headed the Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) from December 2015 to December 2019 and was a research fellow with its Berlin Future Forum from September 2013 to November 2015. Before joining DGAP, she worked as an adviser for a member of the Bundestag on disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation, as well as German and European foreign and security policy. Between 2003 and 2010, she was a researcher and lecturer to the chair of political science and contemporary history as well as in the program for North American studies at the University of Bonn. In the summer of 2010, she held a lectureship at the Chemnitz University of Technology.
After her Abitur in Siegen in 1997, she spent a year in Paris – where she completed the Cours de civilization française de la Sorbonne. She then studied political science, public law, and sociology at the University of Bonn from 1998 to 2003, as well as at Venice International University for a semester in 2002. In studying for her doctorate at the University of Bonn, she focused on the life and thought of political scientist John Herz and conducted research in the United States.
Dr. Puglierin was an associate at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin from October 2010 to October 2011. In November 2017, she was a visiting fellow at the American-German Situation Room, a joint initiative of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and the German Marshall Fund. She was part of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Working Group of Young Foreign Policy Experts between 2007 and 2016.

Fake News, Cybersecurity, and Election Manipulation
2022-11-02 08:00 - 09:30
On November 2, the ACG and the Hasso Plattner Insitute will host a breakfast briefing with Professor Dr. Christoph Meinel, Managing and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute and Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at Potsdam University.
Professor Dr. Christoph Meinel is Managing and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI) as well as the Founding Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam. He is the Chair of Internet Technologies and Systems and teaches courses on IT Systems Engineering on HPI’s MOOC platform openHPI, and at the HPI School of Design Thinking. His research currently focuses on security engineering, knowledge engineering, and Web 3.0–Semantic, Social, Service Web. He is also scientifically active in Design Thinking research. Dr. Meinel is the author or coauthor of more than 25 books, anthologies, and numerous conference proceedings. He has had more than 550 (peer-reviewed) papers published in scientific journals and at international conferences and holds a number of international patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, Honorary Professor at the TU Beijing and Dalian University of Technology, Visiting Professor at Shanghai University, Concurrent Professor at the University of Nanjing, and a member of numerous scientific committees and Supervisory Boards.

Navigating Troubled Water: The Transatlantic Partnership in the Face of Multiple Crises
2022-11-04 07:30 - 09:00
On November 4, the ACG will host a breakfast briefing with Sigmar Gabriel, former Foreign Minister, former Vice Chancellor, and Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke.
Sigmar Gabriel has been Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke e.V. since June 2019. He was the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2009 to 2017, which made him the party’s longest-serving leader since Willy Brandt. Before leaving politics in 2018, he held three respective positions at the level of Federal Minister: In addition to serving as Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018), Sigmar Gabriel was Minister for Foreign Affairs (2017-2018), Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (2013-2017), and Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (2005-2009).
In 2005, he was first elected to the Bundestag representing Salzgitter-Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony – and remained a member of Parliament until 2018. Earlier in his career, he served as Minister-President of Lower Saxony from 1999 to 2003. In the 1990s, he was Chairman of the Environmental Committee in Lower Saxony’s Parliament and a member of the SPD Executive Committee. In the 1980s, Sigmar Gabriel, who is certified as a high school teacher, assumed various responsibilities in adult education and was elected to Lower Saxony’s Parliament. He has been active in politics since 1976, when he joined a socialist youth organization.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-11-07 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, November 7, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Berlin Correspondent for Die Zeit, Petra Pinzler (2010 Kellen Fellow). Petra Pinzler is a journalist with the German weekly DIE ZEIT based in the Berlin office. She writes on the EU and foreign policy as well as economic affairs and development. She has been with DIE ZEIT since 1994, first as an economics editor based in Hamburg, then from 1998 – 2002 as a US correspondent based in Washington D. C. In 2001, she was a Bucerius Fellow at the de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 2002 – 2007, she was the paper’s European Correspondent based in Brussels.
She studied economics and politics at the University of Cologne and journalism at the Cologne Journalism School. Ms. Pinzler has won a number of awards for her work including the Robert Bosch Foundation Journalism Prize in 1999, the Karl Klasen Prize in 2003, and the Journalism Prize for Development Policy in 2006. In 2010, she was awarded a Kellen Fellowship from the American Council on Germany.

Watching China from Berlin: Does Germany’s Zeitenwende Extend to Relations with China?
2022-11-08 11:00 - 12:00
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Beijing today. He is the first European leader to visit China since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – and his trip with a dozen German CEOs has sparked some controversy. This visit comes on the heels of Scholz’s decision to push through the approval of Chinese shipping giant COSCO’s bid for a stake in a Hamburg port terminal over the objections of cabinet members, Germany’s intelligence services, and international partners. And, it comes in the run-up to the release of a new national security strategy and a China strategy, both of which are slated to be released before the end of the year (or in January).
Join us for a virtual discussion with Noah Barkin, Senior Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Managing Editor at Rhodium Group, about Germany’s evolving position on China. Noah Barkin is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund based in Berlin. He specializes in Europe’s relationship with China and the implications of China’s rise in the transatlantic relationship. He is also the managing editor in the China practice at Rhodium Group. Prior to joining GMF, he had a 25-year career as a journalist in Berlin, Paris, London, and New York. His work has appeared on Reuters, where he served as a bureau chief, regional news editor, and roving Europe correspondent. In 2019, he was a visiting fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington (AICGS). He is also a host on KCRW, an NPR-affiliated radio station in Berlin, and the author of a book on the euro. A native Californian, Noah has a bachelor’s degree in political science and French from UC Berkeley and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-11-14 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, November 14, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with journalist Miriam Hollstein, (2008 ACG McCloy Fellow) Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin. Miriam Hollstein serves as the Chief Reporter for T-Online in Berlin. Prior to this position, she served as the Chief Political Reporter for FUNKE Zentralredaktion from November 2020 to December 2021. She wrote for the Berliner Zeitung while still a student and worked as an editor for Internationale Politik. She worked as a foreign reporter for the Welt am Sonntag, and from 2006-2014 was a WELT-Gruppe’s domestic policy editor and reporter. From 2015-2020 she worked for the Bild am Sonntag, first as domestic policy and then from 2018 as chief reporter of politics. Her reporting brought her into regular contact with the office of the German Chancellor. Since March 2020 she works as a freelance writer and moderator.
In 2009 she published the first graphic biography of Angela Merkel, entitled “Miss Tschörmanie,” together with illustrator Heiko Sakurai. She appears regularly on the German news program “Phoenix,” where she speaks on political and societal issues. She regularly travels internationally for reporting assignments. In addition, she was a 2005 Marshall Memorial Fellow, a 2008 ACG McCloy Fellow, and was recognized in 2015 by the DEFA Stiftung (German Film Corporation Foundation) for her contribution to the preservation of German film heritage.

What Makes Putin Tick? Putin and Russia’s War in Ukraine
2022-11-14 10:00 - 11:00
It is being reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not travel to Bali next week to participate in the G20 Summit. This was confirmed overnight by Moscow’s embassy in Indonesia. At the same time, we are seeing reports that the Kremlin is withdrawing its troops from Kherson, the only regional capital it managed to capture since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February. The retreat from Kherson is one of the most serious blows to Russia in Putin’s war. Just a month ago, he declared that Kherson and three other regions in Ukraine are part of the Russian nation at an event in Moscow’s Red Square.
Join the ACG for a discussion with Putin biographers and Russia experts Katja Gloger and Andrew S. Weiss (ACG Young Leader) about the war in Ukraine.
This discussion is part of the series In Focus: Russia’s War in Ukraine, organized by the ACG and the Tennessee World Affairs Council, which provides continued updates on and insights into the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine that has rocked the world order. Journalist and author Katja Gloger studied Eastern European History and Political Science in Hamburg and Moscow and has an MBA from Purdue University, Indiana. She started her career as a news reporter for the German Television ARD. As Moscow Bureau Chief for Stern magazine, she witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. She also worked as Foreign Editor for Stern magazine – with a focus on Russia, international affairs, and security policy. She also served as Stern’s Senior Political Correspondent in Washington, DC, from 2004 until the end of 2008. Since 2009, she has served on the magazine’s editorial board.
Ms. Gloger won the prestigious German Henri Nannen Award for Best Documentary Reporting in 2010. She is a Board member of the German section of Reporters Without Borders, a human rights organization defending the freedom of the press, and a member of the Atlantik-Brücke. She has published several books on Russia, including Putin’s World: The New Russia, Ukraine, and the West.
Andrew S. Weiss (ACG Young Leader) is the James Family Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on Russia and Eurasia. His graphic novel biography of Vladimir Putin, Accidental Czar: the Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin, will be published by First Second/Macmillan in November 2022.
Prior to joining Carnegie, he was director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Russia and Eurasia and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum. Mr. Weiss’s career has spanned both the public and private sectors. He previously served as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council staff, as a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and as a policy assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush.
Before joining RAND, Mr. Weiss was a vice president and investment strategist at American International Group, Inc. subsidiary companies, where he worked primarily on global commodities, energy, and foreign exchange markets.

Germany’s Zeitenwende: A New Chapter for Transatlantic Relations”
2022-11-14 12:00 - 14:00
On November 14, the ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Michael Georg Link, Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office and Member of the Bundestag (FDP).
Michael Georg Link is a member of the German Bundestag, now in his fourth legislative term. He represents the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and his home electoral district, Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg. Mr. Link is the Spokesperson on Europe of the FDP Parliamentary Group, and since March 2022 he has been the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office.
Mr. Link is a member of the party council of the European Liberals (ALDE) and a member of the FDP national executive board in his capacity as party Treasurer. He is also a Vice-Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, where he collaborates closely with the U.S. Helsinki Commission. As a member of Heilbronn’s city council, he has remained politically active at the local level. In 2020, he was the Head OSCE observer at the U.S. general elections. From 2012 to 2013, he was Minister of State at the Federal Foreign responsible for relations with the United Nations, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and NATO, as well as bilateral relations with the United States and Canada. After his military service, Mr. Link studied Russian and French at the universities of Augsburg, Lausanne, and Heidelberg.

Germany’s G7 Presidency in a Period of Crisis
2022-11-15 08:30 - 10:30
On November 15, the ACG and the German Consulate General will host a breakfast briefing with Dr. Florian Toncar, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance and Member of the German Bundestag (FDP).

Dr. Florian Toncar has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance since December 2021. Since 2017, he has also been Parliamentary Secretary of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag. In 2009, he became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Chair of the FDP’s Expert Committee for Home Affairs and Law in Baden-Württemberg, positions he continues to hold. From 2009 to 2013, he was Chair of the Financial Markets Advisory Committee, and he served as Deputy Leader of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag from 2011 to 2013.
Dr. Toncar studied law in Regensburg, Cambridge, and Heidelberg.

Global Trends in Authoritarian Interference in Elections
2022-11-15 11:00 - 12:00
Democratic backsliding has become a defining trend in global politics over the past two decades. This has caused authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes to gain more traction around the world. One of the many mechanisms for “antidemocratic” leaders is interference in elections, be it in their own countries or in other countries.
Join ACG and 1014 for another discussion as part of their virtual series Democracies und Pressure: Challenges for the Global Liberal Order. We will be joined by experts Dr. John Glenn and Sarah Pagung for a discussion about authoritarian influence through interference in elections ranging from resenting results to manipulating or pre-determine election outcomes. Dr. John K. Glenn is Senior Director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, where he oversees and develops the Forum’s cross-cutting analytic and research activity in areas including transnational kleptocracy, the integrity of the information space, emerging technology, and modern authoritarian influence.
Dr. Glenn has over 20 years of international experience in the nonprofit, foundation, and academic sectors, having previously served as policy director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, director of foreign policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and executive director of the Council for European Studies.
He serves as adjunct faculty at the Elliott School for International Relations at George Washington University where he teaches graduate seminars on transatlantic relations, having previously taught at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also an HFX Fellow on the Agenda Working Group for the Halifax International Security Forum.
He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and Ph.D. and A.M. from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of numerous articles, reports, and books on international affairs and democratic development, including Framing Democracy (Stanford University Press) and The Power and Limits of NGOs (Columbia University Press, co-edited with Sarah Mendelson).
Sarah Pagung has been an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) since February 2019. Her research focuses on Russian foreign and information policies and on Moldova. Until December 2018, Ms. Pagung worked as a Program Officer for the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, where she managed the discussion group on Russia and the Eastern Partnership as well as the joint project “A New Western Ostpolitik” with Johns Hopkins University. From 2013 to 2015, she worked in the project team of the Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Kolleg.
Ms. Pagung is currently working on a doctorate on the impact of Russian propaganda and information policy on Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she studied political science. She is also an adjunct lecturer there and serves as a seminar facilitator for various formats relating to European foreign policy and Eastern Europe. From 2012 to 2013, she worked in youth and adult education in Saint Petersburg on behalf of the European Voluntary Service’s German-Russian exchange program.

Food Security and the Economic Implications of the War in Ukraine
2022-11-16 09:00 - 10:00
The war in Ukraine has implications that reach far beyond its borders. The conflict has exacerbated critical issues in many parts of the world – like food insecurity. During the war, we have seen food prices increase as Ukraine (one of the world’s “bread baskets”) has come under attack. Grain prices have vacillated as shipping lanes through the Black Sea have opened and closed.
Join ACG and 1014 for another discussion as part of their virtual series Democracies und Pressure: Challenges for the Global Liberal Order. We will be joined by experts Ambassador Ertharin Cousin and Alexander Müller for a discussion about global food insecurity and how it has been made worse through the war in Ukraine. Ambassador Ertharin Cousin currently serves as the CEO and Managing Director of Food Systems for the Future, a nutrition impact investment fund; a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University, Center on Food Security and Environment.
From 2012 until 2017, she led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). As Executive Director, Ambassador Cousin guided the 14,000-member WFP team feeding more than 80 million people each year; while she identified and championed longer-term, more sustainable solutions for global food insecurity and hunger.
In 2009, Ambassador Cousin was nominated and confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. Prior to her global hunger work, she helped lead the U.S. domestic fight to end hunger including service as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of America’s Second Harvest -now Feeding America. She is currently a member of the Bayer AG Supervisory Board, the Mondelez International Board of Directors, the Royal DSM Sustainability Board, and a Trustee of the African agriculture thinktank Academia2063.
She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Georgia Law School, and the University of Chicago Executive Management Program-Finance for Non-Financial Executives. She has been listed numerous times on the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List, as the Fortune Most Powerful Woman in Food and Drink, on Time’s 100 Most Influential People list, and as one of the 500 Most Powerful People on the Planet by Foreign Policy magazine.
Alexander Müller is the Founder and Managing Director of TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability in Berlin and Study Leader of “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food (TEEBAgriFood)” hosted by UN Environment. He is a Member of the German Council for Sustainability.
Previously he served as Assistant-Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 2006 to 2013, as a member of the UN Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC), and as chair of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN). In Germany, he served as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food, and Agriculture, from 2001 to 2005, and as State Secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Family Affairs, and Health in the state of Hesse, among others.
Mr. Müller received a diploma in sociology from Philipps University in Marburg.

Recalibrating German Foreign Policy After the Zeitenwende
2022-11-16 12:00 - 14:00
On November 16, the ACG and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung will host a discussion and luncheon with Lars Klingbeil, Party Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Lars Klingbeil is a German politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 2021. Mr. Klingbeil first joined the SPD in 1996, and in 2009, he was elected to represent the Rotenburg I – Heidekreis district in the German Bundestag. Since 2017, he has been a directly elected representative. From 2017 to 2021, Mr. Klingbeil was Secretary General of the SPD, and from 2009 to 2017, he was digital policy spokesman for the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the Defense Committee. He is a founding member of D64 – Center for Digital Progress and a member of AWO, a national workers’ welfare association, and IG BCE, a trade union for the mining, chemistry, and energy industries. Mr. Klingbeil was born in Soltau in 1978 and grew up in Munster in the Lüneburg Heath.

Midterm Assessment of the Transatlantic Relations
2022-11-17 18:00 - 20:00
On November 17, the ACG and the Freunde des ACG will host a discussion and reception with Timothy E. Liston, US-Generalkonsul in München, and Stefan Kornelius, Ressortleiter Politik, Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Timothy E. Liston ist seit Ende Juli 2021 US-Generalkonsul in München und seit 2002 als Beamter des Auswärtigen Dienstes tätig. Er absolvierte zuletzt ein Jahr am National War College, wo er einen Master of Science in National Security Strategy erwarb. Zuvor war er von 2016 bis 2020 stellvertretender Leiter des US-Konsulats in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt. Von 2013-2016 arbeitete er bei der Ständigen Vertretung der USA bei internationalen Organisationen in Wien, wo er als stellvertretender Botschaftsrat für Angelegenheiten der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde für die friedliche Nutzung der Kernenergie zuständig war und die JCPOA-Verhandlungen unterstützte. Zudem war Tim E. Liston in Washington in der Militärpolitik-Abteilung des Außenministeriums tätig und dort für Südostasien zuständig. Außerdem war er in der US-Botschaft in Hanoi, in welcher er sich auf das Südchinesische Meer, die vietnamesische Innenpolitik und politisch-militärische Fragen konzentrierte. Er war Handelsoffizier und Konsul für Politik & Militär bei den Botschaften in Berlin bzw. Vilnius. Vor seinem Eintritt in den Auswärtigen Dienst arbeitete er bei der RAND Corporation und war Stipendiat des Robert-Bosch-Instituts und Teilnehmer des Praktikumsprogramms des Deutschen Bundestags. Neben seinem Abschluss am National War College hat Tim E. Liston einen Master der School of International and Public Affairs der Columbia University und einen Bachelor der University of Wisconsin in Internationale Beziehungen und Germanistik. Er spricht Deutsch, Vietnamesisch und Litauisch.
Stefan Kornelius leitet seit 2021 das Politik-Ressort der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Von 2000 an war er für die Außenpolitik verantwortlich. Zuvor arbeitete er als stellvertretender Leiter des Berliner Büros und berichtete während der Clinton- Präsidentschaft als Korrespondent aus Washington. Von 1991 bis 1996 war Herr Kornelius als Korrespondent im Bonner Bundesbüro der SZ für die Berichterstattung über Verteidigung und sicherheitspolitische Themen sowie über die CDU zuständig. Er absolvierte die Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule und studierte an der Universität Bonn und der London School of Economics. Er ist Mitbegründer der Zeitschrift Medium Magazin.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-11-21 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse.
Join us on Monday, November 21, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Malte Lehming, Opinion Writer for Tagesspiegel. Malte Lehming works as a writer for the Tagesspiegel, where he heads the opinion page. From late 2000 to 2005, he was the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the Tagesspiegel in 1991 as foreign policy editor — focusing on security policy, transatlantic relations, and the Middle East. From 1989 to 1991, he worked as a personal assistant and speechwriter for former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Mr. Lehming studied philosophy, German literature, and European history in Hamburg.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-11-28 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, November 28, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Anja Wehler-Schoeck, International Editor, Tagesspiegel. Anja Wehler-Schoeck is the International Editor at the German newspaper Tagesspiegel. Prior to that, she served as Editor-in-Chief of IPG Journal, a debate forum for international and European policy. Previously, she worked as Political Counselor at the German Embassy in Washington, DC, and headed the Amman office of the German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung as Country Director for Jordan and Iraq.

Thoughts and Hopes: The Transatlantic Partnership in Turbulent Times
2022-11-28 12:00 - 13:30
On November 28, the Los Angeles Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Ambassador John B. Emerson, former U.S. Ambassador to Berlin, Vice Chairman at Capital Group International, and Chairman of the American Council on Germany.
Ambassador John B. Emerson was named Chairman of the American Council on Germany at the Council’s Annual Meeting of the Members on January 17, 2018. He is Vice Chairman at Capital Group International. Previously, he was 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.
Before going to Berlin, he was the President of Capital Group Private Client Services from 1997 to July 2013. Previously, he served on President Clinton’s senior staff, from 1993 to 1997, as Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel, and subsequently as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Ambassador Emerson also coordinated the Economic Conference of the Clinton-Gore transition team and led the Administration’s efforts to obtain congressional approval of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreement in 1994, and the extension of China’s Most-Favored-Nation trading status in 1996. In 2010, President Obama appointed Ambassador Emerson to serve on the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Earlier in his career, Ambassador Emerson served as the Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney, from 1987 to 1993.
In 1988, he traveled to Germany on an ACG Political Exchange Fellowship, carried out in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Before that, he was a Partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, specializing in business and entertainment litigation and administrative law.

Food for Thought: How States Can Contribute to Achieving a Sustainable Agricultural Future
2022-11-30 11:00 - 12:00
While global challenges are addressed by national governments, increasingly subnational actors such as states, communities, and cities have needed to step up to take action when traditional nation-states have been unable to make progress due to political polarization and partisan gridlocks. This trend has also characterized transatlantic relations and the German-American partnership. The German-American State Legislator Dialogue draws on this notion, focusing on the role of state representatives from the United States and Germany in addressing common transatlantic challenges.
Agriculture is of crucial importance for the economy, society, the environment, and the future of the planet. An environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable agriculture can contribute to protecting natural resources, preserving biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and ensuring global food security. It also plays a significant role in promoting the future prosperity of rural areas and strengthening social cohesion. At the same time, the sector faces significant challenges due to rising population growth, declining biodiversity, new training demands, and the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Russia’s war against Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic have added stress to supply chains and led to rising investment costs, price volatility, and global trade conflicts. How can U.S. states and German Länder address these issues and shape the framework for a more sustainable agricultural future?
To discuss these issues, the American Council on Germany and the Aspen Institute Germany invite you to the next discussion in our virtual event series State-to-State: German-American State Legislator Dialogue with German and American state legislators including Representative Sydney Carlin (D), Kansas House of Representatives, Senator Russ Goodman (R), Georgia State Senate, and Elrid Pasbrig MdL (SPD), State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. Sydney Carlin has been a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 66th district, since 2003. She is the Ranking Minority Member of both the Kansas House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget. Ms. Carlin is a member of a number of community organizations, including the American Cancer Society, American Legion, Fraternal Order of Police, Habitat for Humanity, the American Heart Association, and the Manhattan Arts Center. Prior to being elected to the Kansas House, she served on the Manhattan City Commission from 1993–97 and as mayor of Manhattan from 1996-97.
Russ Goodman has been a member of the Georgia State Senate since 2021, representing the 8th district. He serves as the Secretary for the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Consumer Affairs. Mr. Goodman is a seventh-generation South Georgia farmer and entrepreneur with a passion for agriculture and rural Georgia. He is the co-owner of multiple businesses, including the Great American Cobbler Company, his family-operated fruit cobbler company, and Cogdell Berry Farm, his family’s farm where he is involved in every facet of the operation. He is also co-owner of EnviroSpec, a pressure washer supply store, and manager at Timberline Reforestation which does tree planting throughout the Southeast.
Elrid Pasbrig has been a member of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt since 2021. She is Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee for Agriculture, Food, and Forestry and spokesperson for agriculture, animal welfare, and petitions for the SPD parliamentary group. Born in 1974 in the Former German Democratic Republic in Zerbst/Anhalt, Elrid Pasbrig was raised on a farm in a rural area. This upbringing shaped her interest in agriculture at a very young age. Ms. Pasbrig got her Master’s Degree in politics, sociology, and English and American Studies after studying in Germany, Great Britain, and Norway. She is member of the Social Democrats since 2000 and held different offices from community to state levels since then. Before the election, she worked at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and at the Ministry of Economy and Science in Saxony-Anhalt.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-12-05 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, December 5, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Melissa Eddy, New York Times Correspondent based in Berlin. Melissa Eddy is a correspondent based in Berlin who covers German politics, social issues, and culture for The New York Times. Her most recent work has delved into the challenges of integrating one million refugees, the spate of Islamist terror attacks, and the legacy of a trove of Nazi-looted art.
She has covered Germany’s green energy transformation and Chancellor Angela Merkel since she entered office in 2005. A Minnesota native fluent in German and French, she came to Germany as a Fulbright scholar in 1996. Before joining The International Herald Tribune, now the international edition of The New York Times, in 2015, she was a correspondent for The Associated Press in Frankfurt, Vienna, and the Balkans

In Focus: Russia’s War in Ukraine Understanding the War’s New Phase
2022-12-06 11:00 - 12:00
The Tennessee World Affairs Council and the American Council on Germany launched the “In Focus: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine” series in January with a conversation with Ambassador John Kornblum as storm clouds gathered. The series has followed the twists and turns of the unprovoked war over the last nine months.
Now, Ukrainian forces have successfully pushed back Russian forces in the east while Russia continues to brutalize the civilian population with missile and drone strikes aimed at crippling infrastructure and energy supplies, turning out lights and turning off the heat, and weaponizing winter. Questions remain about the resilience of the West’s commitment to Ukraine — military, humanitarian, and other financial aid — and the endgame — what it will take to end the war.
The American Council on Germany and the Tennessee World Affairs Council are continuing their series of virtual events titled In Focus: Russia’s War in Ukraine. Join us for a discussion about the evolving crisis with Ambassador John Kornblum, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Ambassador John C. Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as an eminent expert on U.S.-European political and economic relations, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he occupied a number of high-level diplomatic posts, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European affairs, Special Envoy for the Dayton Peace Process, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process), Deputy U.S. Ambassador to NATO, and U.S. minister and deputy commandant of forces in divided Berlin.

Finding Common Ground: German and U.S. Policies Toward China
2022-12-07 12:00 - 13:00
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February recalibrated the attention of the transatlantic community toward Europe while pushing the longer-term challenges posed by China to the backburner. Yet, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “pro-Russia” neutrality in the Ukraine conflict and joint efforts by Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin to weaken the liberal rules-based order have not gone unnoticed in European capitals and Washington DC. In addition, persistent concerns about Chinese human rights abuses, influence operations in Europe, unfair trade practices, economic coercion, and military pressure on Taiwan make it likely that China will remain high on the transatlantic agenda.
Xi has officially secured another five years as the head of the Chinese Communist Party and emerged from the 20th Party Congress in a strong position to advance his agenda, which includes reshaping international politics and global governance so it is more favorable to China’s interests. Strengthened, he will be even more confident in exerting Chinese influence regionally and globally, less risk averse, and likely even less willing to listen to alternative views from within the party system.
In light of this, transatlantic coordination and cooperation will be even more critical. Join ACG and 1014 for another discussion as part of their virtual series Democracies under Pressure: Challenges for the Global Liberal Order. We will be joined by Sinologists Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer and Yun Sun for German and American perspectives on the complex relationship with China. Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer is a Professor of Sinology at the University of Trier and a Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS. She is an expert on China’s digital politics, media policy, civil society, and human rights.
From 2013 until September 2020, Dr. Shi-Kupfer headed MERICS’ research area on Public Policy and Society. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Sinology. She earned her Ph.D. from Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on spiritual and religious groups in China after 1978. From 2007 to 2011, she was based in Beijing, covering China for various German-speaking media like the Austrian magazine Profil, the German Protestant Press Agency EPD, and the public radio station Deutsche Welle. Since 2019 she has been a member of the Sino-German Working Group on Digital Business Models initiated by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Yun Sun is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. Her expertise is in Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and China’s relations with neighboring countries and authoritarian regimes.
From 2011 to early 2014, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, jointly appointed by the Foreign Policy Program and the Global Development Program, where she focused on Chinese national security decision-making processes and China-Africa relations. From 2008 to 2011, Yun was the China Analyst for the International Crisis Group based in Beijing, specializing in China’s foreign policy towards conflict countries and the developing world. Before ICG, she worked on U.S.-Asia relations in Washington, DC for five years. Yun earned her master’s degree in international policy and practice from George Washington University, as well as an MA in Asia Pacific studies and a BA in international relations from Foreign Affairs College in Beijing.

Bridge Over Troubled Water: The Transatlantic Relationship in an Era of Insecurity
2022-12-07 12:00 - 13:30
Join the ACG-Los Angeles for a discussion and luncheon with Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner, the Executive Director of Aspen Institute Germany.
Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner (M.Sc.) became Director of the Aspen Institute Germany in Berlin, a renowned policy-oriented think tank focusing on transatlantic relations and issues of global importance, in January 2021. As an adjunct professor, she teaches political economy at the Hertie School. From 2014 to 2020, she served as head of the External Economic Policy Department at the Federation of German Industries (BDI), where she was responsible for international trade and investment issues. She spearheaded the German Business7 Presidency (2015) and the German Business20 Presidency (2016-2017) as Sherpa. Prior to joining BDI, she was member of the Board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), worked as a lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin, and headed the Globalization and the World Economy program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). She completed research fellowships at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington. She earned a Master of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. During her doctoral studies, she conducted a one-year fellowship at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-12-12 09:00 - 10:30
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, December 12, at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Marina Kormbaki, Journalist for Der Spiegel. Marina Kormbaki has been with the weekly Der Spiegel since August 2022. She is in the Berlin bureau and covers German politics – with a special focus on the Green Party and foreign policy. She has been reporting on people, politics, and power in Berlin since 2015. Previously, she worked for The Pioneer and, before that the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). Earlier in her career, she wrote for the Hannoverschen Allgemeinen Zeitung. She was born in Hannover and studied Social Sciences there.

After COP27: The G7 and the Global South
2022-12-12 11:00 - 12:00
Under the Climate and Environment Track during Germany’s G7 Presidency, environment, climate and energy ministers from G7 countries have pursued several goals including the accelerated global phase-out of coal; the forced decarbonization of certain sectors; the systematic transtition toward environmental sustainability in all areas of life; and initiatives to protect the ocean. This work builds on the previous G7 agenda, which includes the sustainable use of resources, adapting to the impact of the climate crisis, and the development of environmentally sustainable supply chains.
After COP27 and as Germany’s G7 Presidency draws to a close, join the American Council on Germany and the German Embassy in Washington, DC for the final event in their series of online discussions highlighting Germany’s G7 Presidency.
On Monday, December 12, climate experts Jennifer Lee Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action in the German Federal Foreign Office, and Dr. Jonathan Pershing, the Program Director of Environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will discuss new initiatives to tackle the climate crisis and how the G7 countries can work with the Global South to address common challenges. Jennifer Lee Morgan is a German-American environmental and climate expert who has worked extensively on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action in the German Federal Foreign Office since March 2022. Before that, she served as the Executive Director of Greenpeace International. From 2013 to 2016, she was a Member of the German Council for Sustainable Development, and from 2009 to 2016, she was the Global Director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC. She served as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and has worked at the WWF International, the U.S. Climate Action Network, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Earlier in her career, she served as Coordinator of the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign at ICLEI in Freiburg.
Ms. Morgan earned her BA at Indiana University in Bloomington and a MA in International Affairs at the School of International Service at American University. She had a Robert Bosch Fellowship and served at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment
Dr. Jonathan Pershing is the Program Director of Environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He leads a team of grantmakers focused on climate change in the United States, China, India, Europe, and Latin America, and conserving the North American West. He served as Hewlett’s Environment Program director from 2017 to 2021 and returned to lead the program in 2022.
From 2021 to 2022, Dr. Pershing supported Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in advancing various international commitments over the past year. Previously, he served as Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State and lead U.S. negotiator to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. In this capacity – as well as in his earlier capacity as Deputy Special Envoy – he was instrumental in securing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, and subsequently, as senior international climate advisor to the White House and Secretary of State, was charged with overseeing its early implementation.
He holds a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from the University of Minnesota. A scientist by training, he served as a lead author, review editor, and contributor for reports of the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has taught at the University of Minnesota and American University, and he has published and lectured widely on climate and energy issues.

Covid, War, and Energy: The Economic and Social Impact of Simultaneous Crises
2022-12-14 11:30 - 12:30
COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have created huge disruptions – with lasting implications at the global, national, and local levels. Although some concerns about the pandemic have subsided, the medical community is talking about a “tripledemic” as the year draws to a close. The enduring public health crisis and the war have led to supply chain disruptions, food shortages, and rising prices for commodities like energy and food. What are the economic and social impacts of the myriad crises we are facing? And how can they be addressed? By government? Business? Civil society?
Join ACG and 1014 for another discussion as part of their virtual series Democracies under Pressure: Challenges for the Global Liberal Order. We will be joined by Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger, President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Dr. Adam Tooze, Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History and Director of the European Institute at Columbia University, to look at the economic and social impact of the simultaneous crises we are facing. The discussion will be moderated by journalist Ines Pohl, Washington bureau chief for Deutsche Welle. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger is President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of educational sociology and labor market research at Humboldt University. She is also a senior fellow at CES. Her research interests focus on gender inequality in the workplace, sociology of the labor market, rising inequality in Europe, and educational reform in Germany.
Dr. Allmendinger earned her doctorate in social studies from Harvard. Before joining the WZB in 2007, she was a Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1992 to 2007 and director of the Institute of Employment Research in Nuremberg from 2003 to 2007. She was a fellow at Harvard Business School from 1991 to 1992.
Dr. Allmendinger serves on numerous advisory boards in Germany and abroad. She is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Academy of Engineering Science acatech, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Dr. Adam Tooze has held the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History at Columbia University since 2015 and also serves as Director of the European Institute.
Having received his BA in Economics from King’s College Cambridge in 1989, he had the good fortune to witness the end of the Cold War in Berlin, where he began his postgraduate studies. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. From 1996 to 2009, Dr. Tooze taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College. After Cambridge, Dr. Tooze was appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies.
In February 2011, he served as Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor in Military History at West Point. Dr. Tooze’s first book, Statistics and the German State: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge, appeared in 2001; Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was published in 2006; Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931 in 2014; Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World in 2018; and Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy in 2021. He has written and reviewed for the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, the New Left Review, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Dissent, Die Zeit, Spiegel, Tageszeitung, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Moderator: Ines Pohl is the Washington bureau chief for Deutsche Welle. She served as the Editor in Chief of Deutsche Welle from 2017-2020. During her three-year tenure, she focused on increasing DW’s social media presence and the exclusive content of all 30 language services. She joined DW in 2015 as a correspondent in the Washington bureau. As a journalist, she is particularly interested in questions of democratic legitimacy and transition and is passionate about human rights and the role of democratic structures in developing countries. Ms. Pohl strongly advocates using social media to enhance the connection between audiences and journalists in the digital age.
She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2005, where she spent the year focused on immigration and the impact of religion and leadership. She currently serves on the board of trustees for “Reporters without Borders” and “Youth Against AIDS”. From 2009-2015, Ms. Pohl was the editor-in-chief of Die Tageszeitung “taz,” a national daily German newspaper, where she launched a new weekend edition and restructured www.taz.de, now one of Germany’s popular news sites.

A Constant State of Crisis: Olaf Scholz’s Ampelkoalition One Year In
2022-12-15 11:00 - 12:00
When the three-party coalition under the leadership of Social Democrats assumed office a year ago, no one could have anticipated the number – or severity – of the crises it would face. The Ampelkoalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats would have faced a steep learning curve under the best of circumstances. Lingering concerns over Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine have overshadowed the first year of this fledgling coalition. While it has met some of its campaign promises and had some other achievements, two recent public opinion polls indicate that two-thirds of the population is dissatisfied with the Ampel.
Join us for a conversation with Stefan Kornelius, the Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, assessing the first year of the new government. Stefan Kornelius is the Political Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Previously he served as the Foreign Editor of the paper for nearly 20 years. In his reporting career, he has covered Germany’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl, and defense issues in Europe. He served as Berlin Bureau Chief, and from 1996 to 1999, he was the paper’s Washington correspondent. Before that, he was a correspondent in Bonn.
His biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, entitled Angela Merkel, the Chancellor and her World, has been translated into 13 languages. Mr. Kornelius is a graduate of the Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule and studied in Bonn and at the London School of Economics.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2022-12-19 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, December 19, at 9:00 am ET for the last Kaffeepause of the year with ACG Young Leader alumnus Matthias Deiß, Deputy Director of ARD’s television studio in Berlin. Matthias Deiß is the Deputy Director of ARD’s Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin and deputy editor-in-chief of television. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the editorial director for ARD’s political magazine Kontraste. Before this, he worked from 2012 to 2017 as a TV correspondent with ARD. He studied communications and political science at the University of Munich and at the German School of Journalism in Munich.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-01-09 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, January 9, at 9:00 am ET for the first Kaffeepause of the year with Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth. Andreas Kluth is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Between March 2017 and February 2019, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global, the English-language edition of Germany’s leading business newspaper. For the two decades before that, he wrote for The Economist — in London, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Berlin.

Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
2023-01-23 09:00 - 10:00
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us for a Kaffeepause with Sonja Gillert, Head of Audio and Podcaster for Die Welt.
