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SUMMARY:Kaffeepause: What's Abuzz in Berlin?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 8\, at 9:00 am ET for the first Kaffeepause of the year with Matthew Karnitschnig\, Chief Europe Correspondent for Politico.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Matthew Karnitschnig is POLITICO’s chief Europe correspondent\, based in Berlin. He joined the publication in 2015 from the Wall Street Journal\, where he spent 15 years in a variety of positions as a reporter and editor in the U.S. and Europe. \nIn a career spanning two decades\, Mr. Karnitschnig has been on the front lines of some of the defining political and economic stories of our time. In 2008\, he covered the fall of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis that ensued. He was part of a team of Journal reporters that won a Gerald Loeb award and was named a Pulitzer finalist for National Reporting in 2009. \nHe subsequently spearheaded the WSJ’s coverage of the eurozone debt crisis as the paper’s Germany bureau chief and European economics editor. He led the team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2011 and won an Overseas Press Club award in 2012. \nMr. Karnitschnig previously worked as a journalist for BusinessWeek\, Reuters\, and Bloomberg. \nThe son of an Austrian father and an American mother\, he grew up in Arizona\, where he got his start reporting as a stringer for the Phoenix Gazette during high school.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/kaffeepause-whats-abuzz-in-berlin-84/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Discussions
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SUMMARY:From Digitalization to Transportation: Understanding Germany’s Economy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On January 8\, the American Council on Germany will host a discussion and dinner with Dr. Volker Wissing\, Federal Minister for Digital and Transport and Member of the German Bundestag (FDP) on “From Digitalization to Transportation: Understanding Germany’s Economy” \nPrice: $95 for dues-paying ACG Members; $125 Non-Members \nDr. Volker Wissing has been the Federal Minister for Digital and Transport since December 2021. He is a Member of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (FDP)\, representing the Südpfalz. From 2020 to 2021\, he served as the Secretary General of the FDP. Previously\, he was a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Platinate and served as Deputy Minister-President of the state and as the Minister for Economic Affairs\, Transportation\, Agriculture\, and Viticulture from 2016 to 2021. Dr. Wissing was a Member of the Bundestag from 2004 to 2013\, and served as the Chair of the Bundestag’s Finance Committee from 2009 to 2011 and as the Deputy Chair of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag from 2011 to 2013. Since 2013\, he has been a member of the FDP’s Executive Committee. \nA lawyer by training\, Dr. Wissing was a judge and public prosecutor in Zweibrücken and Landau in der Pfalz from 1997 to 1999\, and was appointed judge at the district court in Landau in der Pfalz in 2001. He studied Law in Saarbrücken and Freiburg.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffrom-digitalization-to-transportation-understanding-germanys-economy-tickets-778430635987%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator” css=”.vc_custom_1703002342674{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/from-digitalization-to-transportation-understanding-germanys-economy/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T110000
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SUMMARY:Superwahljahr 2024: What to Watch in Taiwan’s Upcoming Election
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On January 13\, 2024\, Taiwan’s voters will go to the polls to elect a successor to President Tsai Ing-wen\, who is term-limited. Who will succeed her as three parties jockey for support? Some analysts believe the election will be a referendum on relations with China\, but others think domestic issues (like housing and wages) will be top of mind. What issues will inform Taiwan’s political debate? \nThe election is being watched closely as it will likely impact relations between Taiwan and China as well as Taiwan’s broader role in the world. Join the American Council on Germany for a discussion with ACG Board member and Young Leader alumna Tara Hariharan\, who just returned from a two-week study tour to Taiwan and serves as Managing Director of Global Macro Research at NWI Management LP\, and Dr. Gudrun Wacker\, Senior Fellow in the Asia Division of the German Institute for International Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik\, SWP). \nThis will be the first in a series of events organized by the ACG under the heading Superwahljahr 2024. Starting with Taiwan in January and running through the U.S. presidential election in November\, national elections will be held in more than 50 countries and some 3.9 billion people (or 49% of the world population) will be eligible to vote.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4517047332203%2FWN_a81uPSAPS_-KNSrH5T-hCA” css=”.vc_custom_1704733263871{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Tara Hariharan (ACG Board Member and 2016 Young Leader) is Managing Director of Global Macro Research at NWI Management LP\, a New York-based global macro hedge fund with an emphasis on emerging markets. As head of macro research for the firm since 2012\, Tara focuses on economic activity\, macro-political trends\, and policy in the U.S. and China and is a keen student of European political economy. She directs top-down analysis of macroeconomic data\, monetary and fiscal policy\, and political trends for countries and regions worldwide\, and well as maintenance and constant evolution of NWI’s “macro dashboard” with a strategic focus on potential investment opportunities in fixed income\, equities\, foreign exchange\, and commodities. Her analysis is notably informed by sustained dialogue with a diverse group of high-level global policymakers in both developed and emerging markets. \nMs. Hariharan earned a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2007. She was awarded a 2014 American Marshall Memorial Fellowship by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is closely involved with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. \nDr. Gudrun Wacker is a Senior Fellow in the Asia Division of the German Institute for International Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik\, SWP)\, a Berlin-based thinktank. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy (especially EU-China relations)\, Taiwan\, and security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific. She joined SWP in 2001. Prior to that\, she served as a Researcher at the Federal Institute for Russian\, East European\, and International Studies in Cologne. Since 2018\, she has been an EU representative at the ASEAN Regional Forum Expert and Eminent Persons[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/superwahljahr-2024-what-to-watch-in-taiwans-upcoming-election/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T120000
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SUMMARY:Discussion and luncheon with Ambassador Andreas Michaelis
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the World Affairs Council of Charlotte will host a discussion and luncheon in Charlotte\, NC with H.E. Andreas Michaelis\, German Ambassador to the United States. \nAndreas Michaelis has been the German Ambassador to the United States since August 2023. Previously\, he served as State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Ambassador Michaelis joined the German Foreign Service in 1989. He served as Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Foreign Office\, at the Embassy in Tel Aviv\, and subsequently held several positions in Bonn and Berlin including Spokesman of the Federal Foreign Office. He then served as Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore\, as Director for Asian and Pacific Affairs\, and as Director for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs and North Africa at the Foreign Office before being appointed Ambassador to the State of Israel and then Political Director of the Federal Foreign Office. From 2018 to 2020\, he served as State Secretary for the first time; from 2020 to 2022\, he was Germany’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom; from 2022 to 2023 he again served as State Secretary.\nAndreas Michaelis studied Political Sciences and Philosophy at the Universities of Hanover and Oxford.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/discussion-and-luncheon-with-ambassador-andreas-michaelis/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T120000
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SUMMARY:Almost Three Years into Germany’s Geopolitical Zeitenwende: What to Expect in 2024
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In February 2021 Russia launched its war of aggression in Ukraine. Just days later the newly-minted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held his historic Zeitenwende speech. In it\, he said that things would not be the same as they were before Russia’s attack\, and he outlined some fundamental changes in Germany’s foreign\, security\, and energy policy. Almost three years later\, the war in Ukraine drags on\, and new crises have arisen\, such as the open conflict in Gaza and concerns over migration. Chancellor Scholz and his Ampelkoalition are struggling in the polls. \nJoin the American Council on Germany for a discussion about Germany’s role in the world in uncertain and volatile times and what to watch in the year ahead with Dr. Stefan Fröhlich\, Professor of International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F3017050069478%2FWN_suL1xPw5RP2JZMlYFuNGqw” css=”.vc_custom_1705006978737{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Stefan Fröhlich is Professor of International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is also currently a guest professor at the College of Europe (in Brugge and Natolin) at Oxford University and at the Universities of Bonn and Zurich. His fields of research include EU foreign\, economic\, and security policy; transatlantic relations; German foreign\, economic\, and security policy; and international political economy. He is a frequent commentator on international affairs for German and international media. \nDr. Fröhlich was Director of the postgraduate European Studies Program at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn from 1998 to 2002 and spent time in Washington\, DC\, as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins (2002-03); the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007); and the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy (2016-17). \nHe is a board member of the German Atlantic Council (Berlin)\, Center for European Integration Studies (Bonn)\, German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin)\, German Society for Political Science\, Association for European Integration (Berlin)\, and the Institute for European Politics (Berlin). He is the author of numerous books and more than 200 articles on German and European foreign policy and transatlantic relations. \nHe studied Political Science\, Economics\, as well as American and Spanish Literature in Bonn\, Paris\, and Washington (MA 1985; Ph.D. 1989; “Habilitation” (Dr.phil.habil.) 1996).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/almost-three-years-into-germanys-geopolitical-zeitenwende-what-to-expect-in-2024/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T110000
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SUMMARY:The AfD and a Secret Plan to Change Germany
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In late November\, senior representatives from Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) gathered for a secret meeting with neo-Nazis and other like-minded individuals to discuss Germany’s migration policy and who should count as being German. They developed a plan to expel millions of people from Germany. Critics have compared the meeting to the Wannsee Conference. \nThe story broke on January 10\, when journalists from CORRECTIV released a report on the meeting and its attendees. Since then\, many German cities have seen anti-fascist protests. Government leaders – including the Chancellor – have spoken out against the meeting\, and some have called for the expulsion of the AfD from the Bundestag. \nJoin us on January 24  at 11:00 am ET for a virtual discussion with CORRECTIV Editor-in-Chief Justus von Daniels\, who was a member of the investigative team behind the story.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F8817059327278%2FWN_kgddaYYMQPyD00o-UGGU4w” css=”.vc_custom_1705932844149{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr. Justus von Daniels (2016 Kellen Fellow) serves as Editor-in-Chief for the news organization CORRECTIV. In 2015\, he joined CORRECTIV as an investigative reporter. He has contributed to multiple award-winning projects. \nIn 2015 and 2016\, he was the only journalist who sat in front of the door during secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. He would get kicked out of the building only to come back again\, until finally\, the negotiators talked to him. \nSince 2019\, he has been Editor-in-Chief of CORRECTIV\, alongside Olaya Argüeso. In addition to investigating the secret channels of lobbyists and illegal party donations\, he developed the idea of citizen research\, which led to the development of the crowdsourcing tool CrowdNewsroom. \nDr. von Daniels studied law and completed a legal traineeship. He received the Humboldt Prize for his dissertation about Jewish Law at Humboldt University in Berlin. He spent two years as a postdoc at Princeton University and in New York as a German research community scholar. In 2016\, he was awarded a Kellen Fellowship by the American Council on Germany.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-afd-and-a-secret-plan-to-change-germany/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T110000
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SUMMARY:Road to Election: The Pulse of the Nation after Iowa and New Hampshire
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2024 U.S. election will significantly shape the transatlantic political environment and policy landscape. The results of this monumental election will have serious implications for the future of the United States\, but also for the transatlantic relationship. Transatlantic organizations play an integral role in convening thought leaders\, bringing a transatlantic perspective to U.S. and European domestic policy discussions\, and influencing public discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. This will be particularly important in 2024\, which is why the American Council on Germany is pleased to partner with over 20 other transatlantic organizations and political foundations on the “Road to Election 2024” virtual event series. \nRunning from January 2024 to January 2025\, the virtual event series will host in-depth discussions and foster a vibrant exchange of ideas in the lead-up to the pivotal 2024 U.S. election. The aim of the series is multifold: to inform\, to engage in dynamic dialogues\, and to champion democratic values by presenting diverse perspectives. The initiative’s events will feature prominent researchers\, policymakers\, commentators\, and civil society representatives\, exploring diverse formats and a wide array of topics. From public polling and media impact to electoral demographics\, the future of U.S. democracy\, and pressing policy issues like trade and immigration\, the “Road to Election” series aims to offer comprehensive insights for audiences in both the United States and Germany. \nJoin us on January 25 at 11:00 am ET as we kick off this series with a virtual discussion featuring two expert political advisors\, Matt Gorman\, Vice President of Target Victory\, and Margie Omero\, Principal at the Democratic polling firm GBAO\, and moderated by Juliane Schäuble\, U.S. Correspondent for der Tagesspiegel.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4717059329289%2FWN_F_WzoI2SRSaa0rYTHnRc4A” css=”.vc_custom_1705932992141{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Matt Gorman has advised presidential candidates\, members of Congress\, and Fortune 50 companies on communications and messaging. He is currently a Vice President at Targeted Victory\, a Washington D.C.-based public affairs and digital marketing firm. \nA veteran of three presidential campaigns\, he most recently served as a senior advisor to Tim Scott for America. Before that\, he was the Communications Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)\, rapid response director and national spokesman for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign\, and an aide to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. \nMr. Gorman regularly appears as an analyst on network and cable news programs. A native of Torrington\, Connecticut\, he is a graduate of Stonehill College and resides in Washington\, DC. \nMargie Omero is a Principal at the Democratic polling firm GBAO with over 25 years of experience providing strategic advice and qualitative and quantitative research to candidates\, organizations\, and brands. In 2022\, she worked on the two most competitive gubernatorial races in the country—Governors Tony Evers (WI) and Laura Kelly (KS)—and with the only Democratic Senate pickup\, Senator John Fetterman (PA). She also worked with the DSCC to help re-elect Senators Patty Murray (WA) and Michael Bennet (CO). \nHer other clients have included AARP\, AFL-CIO\, The Center for American Progress\, Third Way\, Groundwork Collaborative\, DCCC\, DLCC\, DNC\, EMILY’s List\, Planned Parenthood\, NARAL\, Everytown for Gun Safety\, and Brady PAC. Her work has explored some of the country’s most challenging public opinion questions\, such as race\, abortion rights\, immigration\, economic policy\, climate change\, corporate accountability\, voting and participation\, guns\, aid in dying\, and the January 6th riots. \nMs. Omero graduated from the University of Texas at Austin\, with High Honors and Special Honors in the University honors program\, writing her honors thesis using longitudinal survey data. She is professionally and academically trained in statistics and sampling and has led over a thousand qualitative sessions and focus groups. \nJuliane Schäuble is the U.S. Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel\, Berlin’s biggest newspaper. Before she moved to Washington\, DC\, in June 2018 she was the head of the political department of the paper where she was responsible for the front page and the political section. She has more than twelve years of experience in the business and the political department of Der Tagesspiegel. \nMs. Schäuble earned her Master’s in Political Science at the University in Potsdam\, Germany. Her studies included one semester at American University in Washington\, DC\, where she took classes in American foreign policy and worked part-time for the “American Council of Young Political Leaders” (“Washington Semester Program”).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/road-to-election-the-pulse-of-the-nation-after-iowa-and-new-hampshire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T180000
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SUMMARY:30th John J. McCloy Awards Dinner
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On January 31\, the ACG will hold the 30th John J. McCloy Awards Dinner honoring Dr. Belén Garijo\, Chair of the Executive Board and CEO of Merck KGaA\, Darmstadt\, Germany\, and Alexander C. Karp\, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Palantir Technologies Inc. [/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”More Information” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Facgusa.mystagingwebsite.com%2Fsupport-the-acg%2F30th-john-j-mccloy-awards-dinner%2F” css=”.vc_custom_1703089398868{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/30th-john-j-mccloy-awards-dinner/
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