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Town Hall: German Foreign Relations in a Changing World
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Wed, May 27, 2026
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM MDT (GMT-6)
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Food Provided (A reception with light bites and refreshments will follow the event.)
Speakers
Tobias Bergner
Director
German Information Center – Public Diplomacy at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Tobias Bergner is the Director of the German Information Center – Public Diplomacy at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. A member of the German Federal Foreign Service since 1988, Bergner was a coordinator for the foreign policy dimension of global health issues at the Federal Foreign Office from 2015 to 2020. Prior to that, he headed the UN Unit Cooperation with Civil Society. From 2009 to 2013 he was foreign policy adviser to the Federal Minister of the Interior. Bergner was a permanent representative at the Embassy in Abu Dhabi and in the embassies in Sanaa, Yemen, Moscow, and at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York. At the Federal Foreign Office, he was head of the work unit for EU relations with Eastern Europe, Russia, the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Black Sea policy, among others. The MENA region, Eastern Europe and Russia are the main focus of his work. From 2020 to 2022, he additionally worked as a senior policy fellow at DGAP (the German Council on Foreign Relations), where he analyzed pandemic preparedness and the security aspects of public health crises.