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Please join Northwestern University's Center for International and Area Studies, the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program, and the Office of the Vice President for International Relations for this webinar with German Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger and Ambassador Ian Kelly.

Wolfgang Mössinger is Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Midwest, based in Chicago. After school and military service he studied German, French and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. He joined the Federal Foreign Office in 1987. His first postings abroad were Dakar, Helsinki and Moscow. From 2008 to 2012 he was Consul General in Edinburgh, from 2012 to 2015 Deputy Ambassador in Baku, from 2015 to 2019 Consul General in Dnipro (Eastern Ukraine). On July 1, 2019 he joined the Consulate General in Chicago.

Ian Kelly is Ambassador (ret.) in Residence at Northwestern University, where he serves on the Steering Committee of the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program. A 33-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, Kelly's last two overseas assignments were Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (2010-2013) and to Georgia (2015-2018). Other assignments include NATO, Rome, Ankara, Vienna, Belgrade, and Moscow. He has an MA from Northwestern and a PhD from Columbia in Russian Studies.

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