The American Council on Germany and the Global Coalition on Aging are launching a series of virtual events called “The Road to Silver Economy Forum,” which will take place in the run-up to the Forum itself on October 15 and 16 in Berlin. The series will focus on a range of issues building on the...
The LA Warburg Chapter will host a discussion and luncheon with Peter Beyer, Member of the Bundestag (CDU)Peter Beyer has served in the German Bundestag since 2009. After finishing his higher education entrance qualification in 1991, he completed his military service in Wuppertal. Beyer then studied law at the universities of Düsseldorf and Bonn. In...
On May 2, the American Council on Germany, the German Law Journal, the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association, and Orte der Demokratiegeschichte will host a discussion and reception with Prof. Eckart Goebel, Chair of Comparative Literature and German Philology at the University of Tübingen, and Dr. Natalia Savelyeva, Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and Future Russia...
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, May 6 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Bojan Pancevski, Germany Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s Germany correspondent, covering all aspects of Europe’s largest economy and its...
From April 19 to June 1, general elections are being held in India to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha (the House of the People, India’s lower house) and the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi is running for a third consecutive term. This is the biggest election in history – and lasts 44 days...
The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer, Member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board and Author of Krisenzeit - Sicherheit, Wirtschaft, Zusammenhalt – Was Deutschland jetzt tun muss (September 2023). Please email events(at)acgusa.org for more information. Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer joined the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in...
In 2022-2023 the American Council on Germany implemented a series of immersive study tours to Germany – three with America Works (an initiative of the MEP National Network) and another in collaboration with the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness and the State Economic Development Executive network – to learn about Germany’s dual vocational education system...
With elections for the European parliament early next month and the U.S. Presidential election on the horizon, campaigning in 2024 is heating up on both sides of the Atlantic. We are seeing increasing polarization and fragmentation of the political landscape – and even a calcification of positions. Yet, on both sides of the Atlantic, many...
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, May 13 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Henrike Roßbach, Deputy Head and Correspondent for the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.Henrike Roßbach is the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Office for the Süddeutsche...
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, May 20 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with ACG Alumna Sonja Gillert, Head of Audio and Podcaster for Die Welt. Sonja Gillert (2019 ACG Young Leader) is the head of audio for Welt. Previously, she served as...
oin The American Council on Germany and the Hanns Seidel Stiftung for a Discussion and Luncheon on “Unraveling Alliances? Assessing the U.S. Role in NATO”, with Alexander Radwan, Member of the German Bundestag (CDU/CSU). The Luncheon will be held on Monday, May 20, 2024 at 12:30 pm (PDT) at Credo (360 Pine St, San Francisco, CA 94104). The cost of attendance is $35 for active ACG...
This year elections are being held all around the world. In addition to concerns about free and fair elections, disinformation spread by state and non-state actors via social media or messengers has become a threat to electoral integrity. For example, compared to the last election cycle in Germany, people are much more concerned about the...
The American Council on Germany, the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York, and the University of Cologne New York Office cordially invite you to a breakfast briefing on “Bridging Borders: Navigating Open Scientific Collaboration with China” with Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the DAAD and Rector of the University of Cologne, and Christopher Walker, Vice President for Studies and...
While global challenges are addressed by national governments, increasingly subnational actors such as states, communities, and cities have needed to step up to take action when traditional nation-states have not been able to make progress due to political polarization and partisan gridlock. In the next German-American State Legislator, legislators will discuss the common challenge of...
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Tuesday, May 28 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sturm, Head of the Berlin Office for Der Tagesspiegel..Dr. Daniel Friedrich Sturm has been the head of the Tagesspiegel's Berlin office since April 2023 and reports...
The American Council on Germany and the Global Coalition on Aging have launched a series of virtual events called “The Road to Silver Economy Forum,” which will take place in the run-up to the Forum on October 15 and 16 in Berlin. The series will focus on a range of issues building on the theme of this year’s Forum, which is...
On May 29, the ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Stefan Wintels, CEO of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau. Stefan Wintels as been CEO of KfW since November 2021. He joined KfW as Co-CEO in October 2021. Prior to joining KfW, Mr. Wintels worked at Citigroup for 20 Years (2001 - 2021) in various leadership...
The ACG and the Goethe Institut in New York will host a discussion and reception with Dr. Sheri Berman, Political Scientist and Author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancient Regime to Present Day; and Lukas Hermsmeier, Journalist and Author of Uprising - Amerikas neue Linke. This event is part of our series Foreign Correspondent Unplugged and will be available...