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Krasno Global
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In-Person ONLY event at UNC-Chapel Hill
Monday & Tuesday, Nov. 17-18, 2025
Monday, Nov. 17, 9.00am-4.30pm -- Tuesday, Nov.18, 9.00am-1.00pm
Inaugural Krasno Global Policy Forum
on Transatlantic Relations - Russia & the West - China & its Global Allies
For other infos, see HERE
Our many distinguished guests include:
The Ambassador of the EU to the U.S.: Amb. Jovita Neliupšienė
The Ambassador of Kosovo to the U.S.: Amb. Ilir Dugolli
The Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the U.S.: Amb. Georg Sparber
The Ambassador of Lithuania to the U.S.: Amb. Gediminas Varvuolis
Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: General CQ Brown
Ambassador Philip Reeker, Former Assistant Secretary of State
Mihaela Osorio, Minister Counselor, Embassy of Romania
Maria Markowska, Head of Political Section, Embassy of Poland
General Norbert Huber, Defense Attaché, Embassy of Austria
General Geoffrey F. Weiss, US Air Force, US Department of Defense
Lt Col Bogdan Berciu, Assistant Military Attaché, Embassy of Romania
Robin Quinville, former Charge d'Affaires, US Embassy Berlin
James Townsend, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Dennis Wilder, Initiative for US-China Dialogue, frm Intelligence official
Dietmar Rieg, Frm President, German American Chamber of Commerce
Robert Gerber, Sr. Fellow, Ctr for the Study of the Presidency & Congress
Hon Mark Kennedy, Director, Wahba Initiative for Strategic Competition
Paweł Markiewicz, Exec. Director, Polish Institute of International Affairs
Klaus Becker, Chair, N.C. Zeitgeist Foundation; frm German Hon.Consul
Major Mary E. Weiss, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Dept. of Defense
Captain Christopher Burkard, US Marine Corps, US Dept. of Defense
James M Lindsay, Disting. Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Kaiser Kuo, Founder and Host of Sinica podcast
Sandra Sirvydyte, Advisor, Political Section, Embassy of Lithuania
Marcus Vinicius De Freitas, Professor, China Foreign Affairs Univ., Beijing
David Yu, Professor of Finance, New York Univ. Shanghai & Stern Schools
Jason Moyer, Fellow, Atlantic Council, Washington, DC
Vita Golod, Economist PhD,Board Member, Ukrainian Assoc. of Sinologists
Cofounder Ukrainian Platform for Contemp. China
Michael Cunningham, Center for China Studies, National Taiwan Univ.
Justina Budginaite-Froehly, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, Wash., DC
Wei Xie, Professor, Computer Information Systems, Appal. State Univ., NC
Lea Thome, AidData China analyst
and other renowned scholars & experts
Hosts:
Prof. Klaus Larres, UNC-Chapel Hill
Christian Forstner, Hanns-Seidel Foundation
Location:
Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library
(main campus of UNC-Chapel Hill)
No RSVP necessary; just come along on Nov. 17, 9.00am
For further information email:
[email protected]
*** We are most grateful for the financial support of the UNC Peace, War and Defense Curriculum (PWAD), the UNC Department of History, the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC, the Office of the Provost, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS - https://tiss-nc.org/), the Center of European Studies, the Asia Center, the Kenan-Flagler Business School. We are also much obliged to the generosity of the Hanns-Seidel Foundation, Munich.
These sponsorships are all greatly appreciated! ***
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In the meantime, please watch our more than
190 event videos
available for free on our YOU TUBE channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/KrasnoUNC
Thank you for your continued support.
Greatly appreciated!
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