J.D. Bindenagel is a former U.S. career diplomat who was appointed by
President Bill Clinton in 1999 as U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy for
Holocaust Issues. He also served as Special U.S. Negotiator for “Conflict
Diamonds.”

Ambassador Bindenagel is an expert on German diplomacy and US -
German relations. He served in West, East and in united Germany, including
as deputy chief of mission (1994-1996) and Chargé d’Affaires in the U.S.
Embassy, Bonn, from 1996 to 1997.

From 2014 to 2019, he served as the founding Henry Kissinger Professor for
security and governance at Bonn University. He currently teaches strategic
foresight as Senior Professor at Bonn University and has published widely
on international security issues in the 21st century.

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