Sigmar Gabriel is chairman of Atlantik-Brücke and a Senior Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). In fall 2018, he served as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at CES.
Gabriel brings a wealth of experience at the local, federal and international level. He assumed several leading posts in the German government, most recently as Minister for Foreign Affairs (2017-2018) and Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018). Prior to that he was Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (2013-2017) and Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2005-2009). Gabriel was one of the longest serving leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 2009 to 2017.
This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.
A frank discussion by Sigmar Gabriel, CES John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow this fall, on Germany’s relationship with the United States, the European Union, and China. Germany's former Vice Chancellor spoke to the Harvard Gazette ahead of his public address on November 1 to open the Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany.
CES is pleased to announce that H.E. Sigmar Gabriel, Member of the German Bundestag and Vice Chancellor from 2013-2018, will serve as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard this fall.
