H.E. Wolfgang Ischinger
Wolfgang Ischinger was born in 1946 near Stuttgart in southern Germany. He joined the German Foreign Service in 1975 with a German law degree and a Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He worked at the UN in New York and was then posted to Washington, D.C. and to Paris. In Bonn, he served as special assistant to Foreign Ministers Genscher and Kinkel. From 1993 to 1998, Ambassador Ischinger served in various senior positions in the Foreign Ministry, where he led the German delegations to a number of international negotiating processes, including the Bosnia Peace Talks at Dayton, Ohio, the negotiations concerning the NATO-Russia Founding Act, as well as the negotiations on NATO enlargement and on the Kosovo crisis. From 1998 to 2001, Mr Ischinger served as State Secretary, the highest civil service post, in the German Foreign Office. From 2001 to 2006, he served as Germany's Ambassador to the United States of America in Washington, D.C. Mr Ischinger has published widely on foreign policy, security and arms control policy as well as on European and transatlantic issues. He serves on several non-profit boards, including the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the East-West Institute in New York, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt, the Council on Public Policy, and AFS Germany (American Field Service).
