Washington, Berlin, & Brussels November 11 – 21, 2021

Meet Alina at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)

Meeting location: Terminal B, Baggage Claim

Participants who do not fly into DC, please proceed to the hotel directly.

Shuttle transfer to the home of Michael Werz
1837 California St NW
Washington, DC 20009

Shuttle transfer to The Gathering Spot
1720 I St NW
Washington, DC 20006

· Spencer Boyer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, US Department of Defense
· Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University
· Elizabeth Lopez-Sandoval, Communications and Special Projects Director, Office of Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16)

Harry S Truman Building
2201 C St NW
Washington, DC 20520

· John Ashworth, Senior German Desk Officer, U.S. Department of State
· Benjamin Stegmann, Senior Military Advisor & Germany Desk Officer, U.S. Department of State
· Ingrid Specht, Public Diplomacy Officer – United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany, U.S. Department of State

Discussion on U.S. News from a German Perspective with

· Claudia Buckenmaier, Journalist
· Torsten Teichmann, Journalist

Shuttle transfer to the home of Ricklef Beutin
2500 Foxhall Rd NW
Washington, DC 20007

Host:

Ricklef Beutin
Deputy Chief of Mission
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Transatlantic Guests:

· Aysha Afzal Chowdhry, Senior Director, RiceHadleyGates LLC
· Liudmila Batista, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs
· Max Bergmann, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
· Esther Brimmer, Executive Director and CEO, NAFSA: Association of International Educators
· Suzanne Brown Fleming, Director of International Academic Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mandel Center
· Jacob Comenetz, German Embassy
· Matt Duss, Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Bernie Sanders
· Sebastian Ernst, German Embassy
· Jan Grünhage, German Embassy
· Michael Hasper, German Embassy
· Grant Murphy, Policy Advisor, Office of Terrorist Finance and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury
· Anke Popper, German Embassy
· Sandy Radmanesh, German Embassy
· Rachel Rizzo, Director of Programs, Truman Center for National Policy
· Majid Sattar, Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung & Member of the Advisory Board NEW BRIDGE PROGRAM
· Erica Sayers, Director, Client Strategy, Y Media Labs
· Howard Solomon, Director of Western European Affairs, U.S. Department of State
· Markus Teglas, German Embassy
· Gönül Tol, Founding Director, Middle East Institute’s Turkey Program
· Sarah Wildman, Co-creator, Host, and Producer, First Person Podcast
· Markus Ziener, Helmut Schmidt Fellow, German Marshall Fund

Shuttle transfer to Heurich House Museum
1307 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036

Tracing German Footprints in the U.S. Capital

Walk to Farmers & Distillers (10 minutes)
600 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001

Grab luggage

Check-in

Walk to TERAS Döner Kebap (10 minutes)
Wilhelmstraße 45
10117 Berlin

Take-out

COVID-19 rapid tests

Beisheim Center
Berliner Freiheit 2
10785 Berlin

Dr. Julian Jaursch
Project Director “Policy | Platform Regulation”
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Dr. Jan Boehm
Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Jürgen Trittin
Member of the German Parliament (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

Cem Özdemir
Member of the German Parliament (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

Shuttle transfer to Einstein Stammhaus
Kurfürstenstraße 58
10785 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman
Director of Einstein Forum
Author of “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil”

· Ye-One Rhie, Member of the German Bundestag (SPD)
· Helga Lukoschat, Chairperson of the Board, EAF Berlin
· Tannaz Falaknaz, Politician (SPD) and Diversity Expert, EAF Berlin
· Lena Wagner, Junior Chair, Society of Hertie School for Inclusion, Equity, Liberty and Diversity (SHIELD)
· Eduardo Alberto Campbell Bethancourt, Junior Chair, Society of Hertie School for Inclusion, Equity, Liberty and Diversity (SHIELD)

Eingang Protokollhof
Werderscher Markt 5
10117 Berlin

Michelle Müntefering
Minister of State
German Federal Foreign Office

Ruby Au
Head of Ecosia North America

Snack

Hauptstadtbüro
Georgenstraße 22
10117 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther
Director of the German Economic Institute
Vice Chairman of the Board of Atlantik-Brücke

Back entrance at the corner of Behrenstraße and Ebertstraße

Clark Price
Chargé d’Affaires
U.S. Embassy

Dr. Matthias Roßbach

Head of “Coordination of Federal and European Policy and International Affairs”

State Chancellery of North-Rhine Westphalia, Berlin Representation

· Henrike Cremer, Fridays for Future Activist
· Darya Sotoodeh, Fridays for Future & Migrantifa for Future Activist
· Markus Vollmar, Executive Director Communications and Campaigns, WWF Germany

Public transportation to Berlin Hauptbahnhof

Walk to Volkswagen AG (10 minutes)

Tour through Volkswagen AG

Lunch

Ludwig Blaurock
Deputy Head of Security Division
Bilateral Affairs USA, Canada, and Turkey

Meet in the hotel lobby

Join Alina for a Glühwein and a snack at the Christmas Market

Winterwelt am Potsdamer Platz (20 minutes by foot)
Alte Potsdamer Straße 1
10785 Berlin

Walk to Munich Security Conference (3 minutes)
Friedrichstraße 154
10117 Berlin

Ambassador Boris Ruge
Vice Chairman Munich Security Conference
Member of the NBP Advisory Board

A Tour of German History with Refugee Guides

Snack

Free time

Shuttle transfer to Axel Springer
Zimmerstraße 50
10117 Berlin

Dr. Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief, WELT TV

Fill out Belgian registration form

Dinner on your own

Shuttle transfer to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)

Shuttle transfer to tbd

Roland Freudenstein, Vice President and Head of GLOBSEC Brussels office

27 Avenue Des Arts, 1040 Brussels (7^th floor)

Brexit, Digitalization, Health, and the Green Deal

Walk to Fritland (5 minutes)
Rue Henri Maus 49
1000 Bruxelles

Take-away fries from Fritland