2022 World Affairs Council of the Year
Network of Independent World Affairs Councils of America

War in Europe | Ambassador John Kornblum

February 25, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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The Tennessee World Affairs Council

in association with Belmont University Center for International Business, and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

SPECIAL EDITION

GLOBAL TOWN HALL SERIES

via Zoom

War in Europe

Ambassador John Kornblum

Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs

February 25, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m. CT

This special event is free but please consider becoming a member or making a donation when you register. Thank you.

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You can view Ambassador Kornblum’s January 17th, February 1st and February 25th TNWAC conversations about the Ukraine crisis on our YouTube channel.


Ambassador John C. Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as an eminent expert on U.S.-European political and economic relations, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he occupied a number of high-level diplomatic posts, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European affairs, Special Envoy for the Dayton Peace Process, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process), Deputy U.S. Ambassador to NATO, and U.S. minister and deputy commandant of forces in divided Berlin. From 2001 to 2009, he was chairman of Lazard Freres Germany. He currently serves as senior counsellor to the international law firm Noerr LLP and as a senior adviser to the worldwide consultancy Accenture. Mr. Kornblum has also served on a number of supervisory and advisory boards including those of Thyssen-Krupp, Technologies AG, Bayer AG, Russell Reynolds, and Motorola Europe. He is a member of the boards of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, the American Academy in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, and of numerous nonprofit organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964, and he has been the recipient of many awards, including a Knights Cross of the Order of Merit from Germany and an Order of Merit from Austria.


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Details

Date:
February 25, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm