The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Ambassador Klaus Scharioth
German Ambassador to the U.S.

"Resume' of the German EU Presidency and
Challenges of the G-8 Presidency"

Wednesday, 11th July, 2007 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Monday, 9th July to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only
 

Ambassador Dr. Klaus Scharioth was born in 1946 in Essen, North Rhine Westfalia, Germany. Klaus Scharioth studied political science, sociology and psychology at the College of Idaho. He studied law in Bonn, Geneva and Freiburg and obtained his law degree in 1973. From 1973 to 1975 Klaus Scharioth studied international relations, international law as well as international finance and economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government receiving his M.A., M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. degrees.

In the German Foreign Office, Dr. Scharioth responsibilities have included Security and Defense Policy, Transatlantic Relations, European Policy (also the European Constitution and the Financial Perspective), crisis management, arms control and disarmament, negotiations with Iran, Russia, G 8, as well as budget and personnel.

Dr. Scharioth assumed charge as Ambassador of Germany to the United States of America in March 2006.

For information on the embassy of Germany in Washington DC, go to the website www.germany.info.