Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a special event with His Excellency Peter Wittig, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States who will discuss “Transatlantic Relations in a World in Turmoil.” The Project’s Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, will moderate. This event is co-sponsored by the Diplomacy Professional Interest Council. Light refreshments will be available. No RSVP required.
Peter Wittig has served as German Ambassador to the United States since April 2014. Prior to this, he was German Ambassador to the United Nations in New York and represented Germany during its tenure as a member of the UN Security Council in 2011 and 2012. There, he drew on his wide expertise in United Nations matters, having previously served as Director-General for United Nations and Global Issues at the German Foreign Office in Berlin. Ambassador Wittig joined the German Foreign Service in 1982. He has served at the Embassy in Madrid; as private secretary to the Foreign Minister at the headquarters, then located in Bonn; and as Ambassador in Lebanon and in Cyprus. He was the German Government Special Envoy on the “Cyprus question” (the division of Cyprus).
