Lunch with German Ambassador (ret.) Stefan Schlüter

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Join The American Council on Germany, the Germanic-American Institute, the German-American Chamber of Commerce, and Global Minnesota for a lunch discussion with retired German Ambassador Stefan Schlüter. He will lead a discussion titled “Germany’s Zeitenwende: Setting New Priorities in Foreign, Security, and Energy Policy.”

Ambassador (ret.) Stefan Schlüter is completing a two-week tour of U.S. cities, through the support of the American Council on Germany, to engage with Americans and discuss current issues in Germany and the state of the transatlantic relationship. During this meeting Mr. Schlüter will discuss the domestic and international impact of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech in February, announcing a tremendous shift in Germany’s policies as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine. He will also address how the cut in Russian gas deliveries affects climate policy and sustainable development goals in Germany.

Ticket price includes a buffet-style lunch.

Stefan Schlüter served in the German Foreign Office until the summer of 2017 and is now a Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy in Berlin. After studying political science at the University of Hamburg, Mr. Schlüter joined the German Foreign Office in 1979. His first foreign assignments brought him to Buenos Aires and Algiers. From 1986 to 1990 he served as the spokesperson of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv before returning to the Foreign Office in Bonn as desk officer for the Maghreb countries. From 1992 to 1995 he served as Deputy Consul General in Los Angeles before returning to Bonn as Deputy Director for the southern part of Latin America. From 2000 to 2004, he was posted to the United States a second time and served as Deputy Consul General in New York City before moving to Buenos Aires as Deputy Chief of Mission. In 2007 he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin to assume the position of Director for Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding, Democracy Promotion and State-Building, promoting German projects in this field world-wide. In 2010 he was appointed Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean Region, residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago before moving on to his last assignment as Consul General in San Francisco in 2014.

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