Wolfgang Ischinger

Ambassador (ret.) Wolfgang Ischinger is the President of the Munich Security Conference Foundation Council. He also serves as Chair of the Munich Security Conference (MSC).
A German career diplomat, he was State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister) from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the U.S., and from 2006 to 2008, to the Court of St James’s.
Professor Ischinger is a Senior Fellow at the Hertie School, Berlin, and serves on the boards and advisory boards of numerous companies as well as non-profit-institutions, including Atlantik-Brücke/Berlin, the American Academy/Berlin, and the Atlantic Council of the United States/Washington D.C. Furthermore, he is member of the Advisory Boards of several international businesses.