One Year Later: Russia's War in Ukraine, Germany's Policy Pivot and Implications for Transatlantic Relations

Metin Hakverdi, German Bundestag member (Social Demcoratic Party), lecture from the American Council on Germany - One Year Later: Russia's War in Ukraine, Germany's Policy Pivot and Implications for Transatlantic Relations

Metin Hakverdi joined the Social Democratic Party in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He serves on the Bundestag's Committee on European Union Affairs and on the Budget Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag. Before being elected to the Bundestag, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companie and Assets. Mr. Hakverdi attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law. He was a distinguished visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in 2019 and a 2020 John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies (CES). He is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke e.V. The distinguished guest of Hunter's German Department, Mr. Hakverdi will speak on behalf of the American Council on Germany on February 23rd, 2023. Discussing Germany's refocussing on defense and security issues as a response to the invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Hakverdi will reflect upon the implications of this policy shift for the international stage.