Karl Kaiser and Pierre Keller receive Spanish Order of Merit from the King of Spain

On the occasion of the inaugural Transatlantic Conference organized by the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship in Madrid and Segovia in July 2018, King Philip VI of Spain awarded the Spanish Order of Merit to Pierre Keller and Karl Kaiser for their services to European and transatlantic cooperation.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Joseph Borrell, presented the decoration at a ceremony during the conference. Pierre Keller created the Transatlantic Relations Program at Harvard and endowed the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship at the Kennedy School. Karl Kaiser, now a Senior Associate at the Belfer Center, is the former Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations and was the founding director of the Transatlantic Relations Program, now the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Belfer Center.