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Past Event
Seminar

Germany’s Response to the U.S.’s Crisis of Democracy and President Biden's Foreign Policy Agenda

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Fisher Family Fellow, Peter Wittig, former Ambassador of Germany to the U.S., UK, and UN, moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns about America’s foreign and domestic political challenges from the perspective of one of its closest allies, Germany. Ambassador Wittig will also address the expected reset in transatlantic relations under President Biden.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMof-uhqjMuGdfI1bJJ72CjKy_auWPHjp1n 

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Date: Time: - Location: Online
Then Vice-President Biden and Chancellor Merkel in Berlin in 2013

ABOUT

Peter Wittig recently retired from the German Diplomatic Service. He is a five-time Ambassador. He served in Spain, at the UN, in Lebanon and Cyprus before working in the cabinet of two Foreign Secretaries at headquarters. Most recently he was the German Ambassador at the United Nations in New York (2009 - 2014) representing his country in the Security Council, in Washington (2014 - 2018) and in the United Kingdom (2018 - 2020). His expertise include: Middle East region, conflict resolution and multilateral organisations, transatlantic relations and European Affairs. Before joining the Foreign Service he studied History, Political Science and Law at the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Canterbury and Oxford. He taught History of Ideas as a Junior Professor at the University of Freiburg. His PhD thesis dealt with British socialism in the late 19th and early 20th Century. He has published numerous articles on international affairs.