Marking 30 Years of German Unification: What Lies Ahead?

Robert B. Zoellick’s government experience spans six U.S. Presidencies – during the Cold War, in its closing chapter, and into the first decades of the 21st  century. He has served as Deputy Secretary, Under Secretary, and Counselor of the State Department; Ambassador and U.S. Trade Representative; Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury; Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House; and President of the World Bank. Under Secretary of State James A. Baker III, Mr. Zoellick was the lead U.S. negotiator in the Two-Plus-Four process for Germany’s unification. The German Government awarded him the Knight Commanders Cross for his work.

Mr. Zoellick currently serves as Senior Counselor at Brunswick Geopolitical, an advisory service of Brunswick Group, and a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In addition, Mr. Zoellick serves on the boards of Temasek, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, and Twitter, Inc., chairs the International Advisory Council of Standard Chartered Bank, and is on the Advisory Board of Swiss Re. He is a member of the boards of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Carnegie Endowment, chairs the Global Tiger Initiative, and is a member of the Global Leadership Council of Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian agency. His most recent book, America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, was published in August.