Wolfgang Ischinger

Chairman of the Munich Security Conference

"Wolfgang Ischinger has published widely on foreign policy, security, and arms control policy as well as on European & transatlanc issues"

Wolfgang Ischinger is the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and Global Head of Government Relaons, Allianz SE, Munich. From 1998 to 2000 he was Deputy Foreign Minister in Berlin, then German Ambassador to the US and later to the UK.

TOPICS: IN DETAIL:

The Central Security Issues of our Time Wolfgang Ischinger studied law at the universies of Bonn and Geneva where he International Negotiating Processes obtained his law degree. He connued studying internaonal law, foreign Foreign Policy economic relaons and history at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Security at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA. His long career in the German Foreign Arms Control Policy Service gave him speciﬁc experse in internaonal negoang processes, having European & Transatlantic Issues been involved with the Bosnia Peace Talks at Dayton, Ohio and negoaons on The Future of the Security Architecture NATO enlargement and the Kosovo crisis. In 2007, he represented the European of Europe: "Europe Whole, Free, and Union in the troika negoaons on the future of Kosovo. He is also Chairman of United" the Ambassadors Advisory Board of the Execuve Council on Diplomacy in 1990-2010: The Unfinished Business of Washington, D.C Unifying Europe WHAT HE OFFERS YOU: LANGUAGES: Wolfgang Ischinger is an experienced German diplomat with the current mandate He presents in German and English. as Chairman of the Munich Conference on Security Policy to bring people together to discuss the central security issues of our me. Having published widely on foreign and security policy in German, English and French, he is ideally placed to oﬀer insights from his unique perspecve.

HOW HE PRESENTS:

In his invaluable and eloquent presentaons, Wolfgang Ischinger stresses the importance that we make the best possible use of the strategic opportunies that lie before us to strengthen US-European cooperaon across a wide spectrum of issues of common concern.