This event is co-hosted by the United Nations Association of New York, the Columbia University Club of New York, the Columbia University Club Foundation and the Penn Club of New York.
AMBASSADOR CHRISTOPH HEUSGEN
Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN
6:00 to 6:30 p.m. | Registration
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. | Program with Q+A
7:30 to 8:00 p.m. | Reception
Penn Club of New York
30 West 44th Street
New York, New York 10036
ADMISSION
UNA Members: FREE
UNA Students Members: FREE
Guests and Non-Members: $15
Please join the members of the United Nations Association of New York, the Penn Club of New York, and the Columbia University Club of New York for a talk by Ambassador Heusgen on Germany’s responses to the complexities and common challenges facing us today.
AMBASSADOR CHRISTOPH HEUSGEN
Ambassador Christoph Heusgen was appointed Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations on July 26, 2017.
Prior to this appointment and since 2005, Heusgen was the Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to his country’s Federal Chancellor, Angela Merkel. He served as Director and Head of the Policy Unit for High Representative Javier Solana in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1999 to 2005.
Between 1988 and 1999, Heusgen served in various capacities at the Foreign Office in Bonn, including Deputy Director-General for European Affairs from 1997 to 1999; Head of Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel’s Private Office in charge of European Affairs from 1993 to 1997, serving as Deputy Head since 1994. From 1990 and 1992, he was Deputy Head of the special section in charge of negotiations on the Treaty of Maastricht. He held the position of Private Secretary to the Coordinator for German-French Relations from 1988 to 1990.
From 1986-88, Heusgen worked in Germany’s Paris Embassy, having begun his foreign service career in the Press and Economic Affairs Office of his country’s Consulate in Chicago, where he worked from 1983 to 1986. He joined the foreign service in 1980.
Heusgen is a graduate of the University of Saint Gallen in Switzerland, and Georgia South College in the United States. He earned a post-graduate degree from the University of Saint Gallen in 1980.
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