Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger was born on April 6,1946 and is a German diplomat who served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference from 2008 to 2022.
15 Facts About Wolfgang Ischinger
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From 2001 to 2006, Ischinger was the German ambassador to the United States, and from 1998 to 2001, he was Staatssekretar in Berlin.
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Wolfgang Ischinger was Germany's ambassador to the Court of St James's from 2006 to May, 2008.
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Wolfgang Ischinger was Global Head of Government Relations of Allianz SE from March 2008 until December 2014.
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Wolfgang Ischinger serves on the supervisory board of Allianz Deutschland AG, on the European Advisory Board of Investcorp and on the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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Wolfgang Ischinger has been described as "Germany's best-connected former diplomat".
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Wolfgang Ischinger earned a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1973.
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From 1973 to 1975, Wolfgang Ischinger served on the staff of the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York.
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Wolfgang Ischinger joined the German Foreign Service in 1975, and has served in Washington, DC, Paris, and in a number of senior functions in the German Foreign Office.
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From 1993 to 1995, Wolfgang Ischinger was director of the Policy Planning Staff under Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel; from 1995 to 1998, as director general for political affairs, Wolfgang Ischinger participated in 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 EU and NATO enlargement and on the Kosovo crisis.
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In 2007, Wolfgang Ischinger was the European Union Representative in the Troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo, which ended up leading to the declaration of independence of Kosovo and the recognition of Kosovo by most EU member countries, the United States, and a number of other countries, in February, 2008.
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Reportedly, Wolfgang Ischinger entered the talks "with only one goal and idea: for Kosovo to become independent in the end, with the Serbian authority's willing consent".
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From 2019 until 2020, Wolfgang Ischinger co-chaired the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund and the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung, alongside Karen Donfried.
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Wolfgang Ischinger has published widely on foreign policy, security, and arms control policy as well as on European and transatlantic issues.
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Wolfgang Ischinger is married to Jutta Falke, a journalist and writer, and the couple have one child.