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SUMMARY:Looking at the U.S. Election: The Race is On!
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a very short period\, the dynamics of the U.S. election have changed dramatically: Beginning with President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance\, followed by an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump\, and then the announcement that President Biden was dropping out of the race and endorsing his Vice President Kamala Harris\, the past few weeks have been consequential for U.S. politics. \nJoin the American Council on Germany and Atlantik-Brücke for a virtual discussion with Ambassador John B. Emerson\, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Chairman of the American Council on Germany\, and Juliane Schäuble\, U.S. Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel\, for a discussion about the recent developments in U.S. politics and what to expect in the weeks ahead.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F2217222681868%2FWN_pnY-B3_7SqSFKzDMarkrfw” css=”.vc_custom_1722268223816{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ambassador John B. Emerson was named Chairman of the American Council on Germany 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. \nPrior to accepting the ambassadorial posting\, John 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 led 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\, Ambassador Emerson served as Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney\, and was a partner in the law firm of Manatt\, Phelps\, Rothenberg\, and Phillips. \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/looking-at-the-u-s-election-the-race-is-on-2/
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SUMMARY:Data Quality in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join The American Council on Germany and The Hasso Plattner Institute in NYC for a discussion with Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann\, Professor for Information Systems\, Digital Engineering Faculty at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam. \nProf. Dr. Felix Naumann studied mathematics\, economy\, and computer sciences at the University of Technology in Berlin and completed his PhD thesis in the field of data quality at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2000. After working as a Postdoctoral Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center working on data integration topics\, he became assistant professor for information integration at Humboldt-University. Since 2006 he holds the Chair for Information Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam in Germany. He has been visiting researcher at QCRI\, AT&T Research\, IBM Research\, and SAP. His research interests include data profiling\, data quality and cleansing\, and data integration\, recorded in over 250 scientific publications. Next to numerous program committee memberships for international conferences\, he has organized several conferences in various roles and he is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM’s Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/data-quality-in-the-age-of-ai/
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SUMMARY:Transatlantic Relations in a Super Election Year: Two Perspectives from Berlin
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will hold a Breakfast Briefing in Chicago with two members of the German Bundestag\, Metin Hakverdi (SPD) and Thomas Silberhorn (CDU/CSU). The event will take place from 8:00am-9:30am (CDT) at The Chicago Club.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Metin Hakverdi joined the SPD in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. His reelection in Hamburg-Harburg in 2021 was resounding — with nearly 40 percent of the vote. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs and on the Finance Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag. \nBefore being elected to the Bundestag\, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013\, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets. He attended high school in Simi Valley\, California\, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. He became licensed to practice law in 2000. \n  \nThomas Silberhorn has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. Since 2021 he has served as the Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group for Transatlantic Relations. Mr. Silberhorn was the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2014 to 2018. From 2009 to 2013\, he was the Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on the Legal Affairs Committee. He chaired the CSU regional group’s working group on foreign affairs\, defense\, Europe\, economic cooperation and development\, human rights and humanitarian aid from 2005 to 2013. He joined the CSU in 1987 and was on the Board of the CSU’s Junge Union from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Silberhorn is a lawyer. After his second state examination in 1994\, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth. Then\, in 2001\, he took up work as a lawyer in Munich and Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Facgusa.mystagingwebsite.com%2Fpolicy-engagement%2Faugust-20-chicago-breakfast-briefing-with-metin-hakverdi%2F|title:August%2020%20%E2%80%93%20Chicago%20%E2%80%93%20Breakfast%20Briefing%20with%20Metin%20Hakverdi%20%26%20Thomas%20Silberhorn”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/transatlantic-relations-in-a-super-election-year-two-perspectives-from-berlin/
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SUMMARY:Thuringia and Eastern Germany before the State Elections
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nA Conversation with the Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia Bodo Ramelow\n\nNext month\, state elections will be held in the three eastern German states of Brandenburg\, Saxony\, and Thuringia. Coming off of the European parliamentary elections in early June\, when the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won most of the votes in all five eastern German states\, poor polling numbers for the parties making up the governing coalition at the federal level\, and the development of a new party\, the Bündnis Sahra Wagenkecht (BSW)\, there are lots of questions about how people will vote. \nSupport for the AfD in the former communist eastern German states was much higher than the national average of 15.9 percent and gave the party enough of a boost to make it the second strongest party in Germany after the Christian Democrats. Exit polls showed that the majority of AfD voters were concerned about their economic well-being and irregular migration. \nJoin the American Council on Germany and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung New York Office for a virtual discussion with the Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia\, Bodo Ramelow\, about the trends in eastern Germany before voters take to the polls in three states. The discussion will take place in German with simultaneous translation into English. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Register Here” style=”classic” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2F4817238139639%2FWN_zWtw_957RYy_ZqpQU0h55A” css=”.vc_custom_1723814011004{background-color: #1e73be !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column_text]Bodo Ramelow is a German politician who has served as the Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia since March 4\, 2020. He previously held this office from 2014 until February 5\, 2020. In this capacity\, he has also been a member of the Bundesrat\, and served as its President for one year from November 1\, 2021 until October 31\, 2022. Mr. Ramelow is a member of the Left Party and previously chaired his party’s group in the Thuringian state assembly (Landtag). \nMr. Ramelow was born and raised in West Germany. He trained as a retail salesman and became an official in the Gewerkschaft Handel\, Banken und Versicherungen (HBV)\, the union for trade\, bank\, and insurance employees\, during the 1980s. He moved to the eastern German state of Thuringia after German unification and joined the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He was elected to the Landtag in 1999 and became Deputy Chairman and then\, in 2001\, Chairman of the party’s parliamentary group in the state parliament. \nIn February 2004\, Mr. Ramelow was elected top candidate of the PDS in the Thuringian state elections\, and was re-elected as the Chairman of the PDS in Thuringia. Starting in June 2005\, Mr. Ramelow was chief negotiator during unification talks which ultimately led to the creation of a new party\, Die Linke (The Left). From 2005 to 2009\, he was a Member of the German Bundestag and Deputy Chairman of the Die Linke parliamentary group\, and from 2009 to 2014\, he served as the Chairman of the Die Linke state parliamentary group in Thuringia. Following elections in September 2014\, Mr. Ramelow was elected by the Landtag as the Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia – with the support of the Social Democratic Party and the Greens\, which had joined Die Linke in a coalition. This vote marked the first time Die Linke had won the leadership of any of Germany’s states since German unification in 1990.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/thuringia-and-eastern-germany-before-the-state-elections/
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