Europe and the Emerging New Global Order

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kreft (Hrsg.)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kreft, Ambassador (retired) is President of the Diplomatic Council (DC). For the last four years until August 2024 Professor Dr. Kreft M.A., B.A. (USA), held the Chair for Diplomacy and was Program Director "International Relations and European Studies" at Andrássy University Budapest and Director of its Center for Diplomacy. Previously, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (July 2016-August 2020), Special Ambassador for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue and for International Academic Relations, and Deputy Head of the Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Other assignments in his 40-year long diplomatic career have taken him to Washington, Tokyo, Madrid and La Paz. From 2006-2010 he was a foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Foreign Relations Committee of the German Bundestag. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institutions, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, DC. Heinrich Kreft studied political science, modern history and sociology at Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA (USA), at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Institut des Hautes Etudes de L'Amérique Latine of the Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. He has published extensively on international relations. Most recent publications on China, the broader Middle East, Hungary, Cencral Europe and on the Western Balkans as well as outer space topics including space security.

Dr. Horst Walther (Hrsg.)

Dr. Horst Walther completed studies in chemistry, oriental studies, computer science and economics at the University of Hamburg. He holds a doctorate in chemistry. Before founding his own company SiG, he worked for various companies such as Price Waterhouse, KPMG, Hapag Lloyd and Grünenthal. He is member of the Diplomatic Council, where he was appointed commissioner of UN affairs, founder of the corporate culture institute in Vienna, initiator of the international standardisation initiative GenericIAM, which aims at the definition of generic processes for the Identity and Access Management and founding member of the German political party Europeans for the Planet, where he serves as a chairman. He maintains several blogs, authored or co-authored several books dealing with geopolitical and societal topics as well as artificial intelligence.

Jochen M. Richter (Hrsg.)

As an Executive Member of the Think Tank Diplomatic Council (UN reg.) Jochen M. Richter chairs its Global Security Forum. He holds a degree in public administration. About three months after the fall of the Berlin Wall (February 1990) he joined the European Institutions. For the next 30 years, he worked in both the Commission and the Parliament. In addition to positions in research, competition, internal market and conciliation, he served two Commissioners in their private office. Retired as Director of the European Parliament at the end of 2020. He since has been teaching at universities in Luxembourg and Düsseldorf. Since January 2024 he has a lecture engagement at the Catholic University in Lviv. He is regularly at security conferences such as the Warsaw Security Forum and those of the New Strategy Center.