The American Council on Germany and ZIRNGIBL Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB will host a discussion and reception in Munich with Dr. Kenneth Weinstein, President Emeritus and Japan Chair, Hudson Institute, and Dr. Anna Sauerbrey, Foreign Editor, Die Zeit.
Understanding the Foreign Policy Priorities of Trump 2.0
February 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Dr. Kenneth Weinstein served as the President and CEO of Hudson from 2011 through 2020, after joining the institute in 1991. In March 2020, he was nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Japan, but his nomination was not confirmed by the Senate before the end of the administration. Widely respected in the diplomatic and policy arenas, Dr. Weinstein has written on international affairs for leading publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia. From 2017 until 2020, Dr. Weinstein chaired the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the oversight body for US Agency for Global Media, and was chair of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting, and the Open Technology Fund.
Dr. Weinstein earned his B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, D.E.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from Sciences-Po Paris, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Dr. Weinstein has been decorated with a knighthood in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
Dr. Anna Sauerbrey is the Foreign Editor at the German largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit. Before assuming this position, she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Der Tagesspiegel, a daily newspaper based in Berlin. She has written about German politics in The New York Times and comments on German and international politics on public German radio and television programs. She has also appeared on CNN and the BBC world service. She is the author of Machtwechsel. Wie eine neue Politikergeneration das Land verändert (Rowohlt Berlin, 2022) a book on the generation of German policymakers succeeding Angela Merkel.
Dr. Sauerbrey received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Mainz in 2009. She has also studied Political Science and Journalism. She was an Arthur F. Burns Fellow with the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2013 and has extensively written about transatlantic relations and U.S. domestic politics since.