Breakfast and Discussion with Oliver Owcza

“Transatlantic Challenges – A European Perspective”

Today´s world faces a growing number of challenges: unsettled political and humanitarian crises in the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan; a corresponding increase of migrants challenging established immigration systems of receiving countries; an increasingly negative perception of globalization and even a growing skepticism about the merits of international cooperation and trade. Against this background the transatlantic partnership has been and is an essential pillar for jointly addressing these challenges and constantly highlighting the potential of trust and value based cooperation. The discourse intends to summarize the most important ones from a European/German perspective.

About Oliver Owcza

Since July 2015 Oliver Owcza serves as Head of Division for North America in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.

In the academic year 2014/15 he has been invited as Fellow to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he has researched and lectured in the area of Fragile States and International Crisis Diplomacy.

Previously, he has been serving as Germany´s Deputy Ambassador in Kabul between 2012 and 2014. His responsibilities encompassed the whole range of the German political, military, police, development and cultural engagement in Afghanistan. It included regular field visits, in particular to the Northern provinces.

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