Die USA, die EU und Russland: was ändert sich mit der neuen US-Regierung?
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheIn kaum einer Region Europas wird die Auswirkung der jüngsten US-Präsidentschaftswahl so groß sein wie in Zentral- und Osteuropa. Welchen Weg wird die transatlantische Zusammenarbeit in dieser Region gehen? Wie wird sich die Kooperation mit dem Nachbarn Russland entwickeln?
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MPA MA Cathryn CLÜVER ASHBROOK
Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge
| Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is a German and American national and the founding Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), which examines the challenges to negotiation and statecraft in the 21st century. In January 2018, she was named Executive Director of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship. From 2011-2017, she served as the Executive Director of the India and South Asia Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at HKS, a program which ended formal activities in 2018. Her areas of expertise include EU-US relations - including trade and security policy - and digital public policy in urban and national contexts. She served on the management team of the European Policy Centre in Brussels, where she was the Deputy Editor of its public policy journal, Challenge Europe and the think tank’s Communications Director, before joining Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as Senior Journalist and consultant in 2005. There, she worked on public policy issues (demographic change, urban competitiveness, green energy) and advised both the consultancy’s Chinese and French offices on branding and communication strategies. In 2009 she served in the second Bloomberg mayoral administration, where she implemented an online program for New York City's 1.8 million limited-English-proficiency migrants to access essential public services. She began her public service career as a legislative adviser at the European Parliament and later the UK House of Commons. |
Ph.D. Thomas Edward GRAHAM
Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York
| 1984-1998 | US Foreign Service Officer |
| 1998-2001 | Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C. |
| 2001-2002 | Associate Director, Policy Planning Staff, United States Department of State, Washington D.C. |
| 2002-2007 | Director, then Senior Director for Russia, United States National Security Council Staff, Washington D.C. |
| since 2007 | Senior Director; then Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc. |
| 2011-2017 | Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, CT |
Ph.D. Alexey GROMYKO
Director, Institute of Europe, and Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
| Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS). Professor of RAS. | |
| Graduated from the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Doctor of Sciences (History). | |
| Associate researcher at Ruskin College and associate visitor at St Antony’s College at Oxford University. | |
| Since 2000, works at IE RAS. | |
| President of the Association of European Studies (Russia) | |
| Academic focus: British studies, European integration and security, international relations. |
Walter STEVENS
Chair, PSC - Political and Security Committee, Brussels
| since 2013 | Chair, PSC - Political and Security Committee, Brussels |
| 2011 | Head of Crisis Management and Planning Department, EEAS - European External Action Service, Brussels |
| 2009 | Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Belgium to the Political and Security Committee of the EU and to the Western European Union |
| 2007 | Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belgium |
| 2004 | Deputy Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium |
| 2003 | Chief of Staff of the Minister of Development Cooperation of Belgium |
| 2000 | Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Belgium |
| 1999 | Multilateral Trade Negotiations, WTO Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Brussels |
| 1995 | First Secretary (Economic and Financial Affairs) and Head of the Foreign Investments Office Embassy of Belgium, Washington DC |
| 1992 | First Secretary (Political and Economic Affairs) Embassy of Belgium, Riyadh, |
| 1991 | Attaché, Belgian Permanent Representation to the United Nations, Geneva |
| 1990 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Brussels |
| Commercial Attaché Embassy of Belgium, The Hague | |
| 1986 | Commercial Attaché for Nigeria, Benin and Togo Embassy of Belgium, Lagos |
| 1985 | Commercial Attaché Belgian Office for Foreign Trade, Brussels |
| 1983 | Cargo and Airline Services, Belgavia Brussels Airport Studies |
| 1982 | Post-Graduate - Center of Developing Countries, Catholic University Louvain-la-Neuve (U.C.L.) |
| 1980 | Masters, Political and Social Sciences, Catholic University Leuven (K.U.Leuven) |
Kurt VOLKER
Executive Director and United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, McCain Institute for International Leadership, Arizona State University, Washington, D.C.
| Ambassador Kurt Volker is a leading expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with over 30 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities. Ambassador Volker serves as Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University based in Washington, DC. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, a Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council, and a Trustee of IAU College in Aix-en-Provence, France. He is a consultant to international business, a member of the Board of Directors of CG Funds Trust, and had previously served as Managing Director, International, for BGR Group. He has taught Transatlantic Relations at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. |
Dr. Thomas MAYR-HARTING
Chair, International Advisory Board, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| 1977 | Law Studies in Vienna (Dr. iur.) |
| 1977-1978 | Postgraduate-Studies, College of Europe, Bruges |
| 1978 | Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague |
| 1979 | Joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service |
| 1982-1986 | Austrian Mission to the European Communities, Brussels |
| 1986-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Moscow |
| 1991-1993 | Private Office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Mock and Schüssel, Vienna |
| 1995-1999 | Director for Security Policy and Policy Planning, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1996-1999 | Deputy Political Director, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1999-2003 | Ambassador of Austria to Belgium and Head of the Austrian Mission to NATO, Brussels |
| 2002-2004 | Special Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans |
| 2003-2004 | Representative of the Federal Chancellor of Austria in the Commission on the Reform of the Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna |
| 2003-2008 | Political Director (Director General for Political Affairs) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 2008-2011 | Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, New York |
| 2009-2010 | Also represented Austria on the United Nations Security Council, New York (President of the Security Council in November 2009) |
| 2011 | Vice-President of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, New York |
| 2011-2015 | Ambassador, (Head of the Delegation) of the European Union to the United Nations, New York |
| since 2015 | Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service, Brussels |
| Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin |
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