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Mark Kennedy Lectures

Wolfgang Ischinger at the Minneapolis Club

April 15, 2009

Ambassador Ischinger is the former German Ambassador to the US and the UK and is now the Global Head of Government Relations for Allianz, the largest financial service provider in the world.

Wolfgang Ischinger was born in Nürtingen/Baden-Württemberg, Germany, April 6, 1946. He studied law at the universities of Bonn and Geneva and obtained his law degree in 1972.  From 2006 to 2008, he was the Federal Republic of Germany’s ambassador to London. Prior to this last assignment, he was the German ambassador to the United States of America for almost five years, and from 1998 to 2001 State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office. In 2007, he represented the European Union in the troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo.

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Pictured above are Debbie Kennedy, Lindsay Ganong ’11, Will Ranieri ’12, Mark Kennedy and Laura Schnieder ’09 at the Minneapolis Club after the presentation given by former German Ambassador, Wolfgang Ischinger.