PUBLIC SPEECHES, LECTURES AND MODERATIONS
                                      
  • October 29, 2015: “Refugees in Europe – Facts & Solutions”, Community Forum at Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte
  • October 21, 2015: “Refugees in Europe”, at Providence Day School, Charlotte
  • July 23, 2015:  “Charlotte - Influence of German Business and Political Thought”, at Providence Rotary Club, Charlotte
  • July 9, 2015: “German Heritage and Economic Presence in Charlotte and Surroundings” at Kiwanis and Chamber of Commerce in Matthews, NC
  • May 21, 2015:  “Charlotte - Influence of German Business and Political Thought”, at Charlotte World Trade Association (CWTA)
  • February 20, 2015: “Why to Learn a Foreign Language” at Queens College of Charlotte
  • March 11, 2014: Speech at UNC Charlotte “Globalized Business From A Personal View”, Prof. Charles Bodkin
  • April 25, 2013: Speech at UNC Charlotte “Why to Learn Another Language and How Does One Integrate in An Ever Smaller Getting World”
  • April 8, 2013: Speech at Belk-College, MBA Program of UNCC, “Managing A Multinational Corporation”
  • February 19, 2013: Speech at Rotary Club Cividale (UD), Italy, “Il Sogno Americano è Ancora Realistico? Esperienza di un Imprenditore Straniero Negli Stati Uniti” (The American Dream: Is It still realistic? Experiences of a Foreign Entrepreneur in the United States)
  • February 12, 2013: Speech at Belk College of the UNCC, International Management Class: “Communicating Across Borders”
  • January 30, 2013: Speech at East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville N.C.”: The Competitive Edge: Studying Language for a Career in International Business” 
  • October 2012: Speech at Duke, University, Durham, N.C.: “The Transatlantic Relationship and its Relevance Today”
  • May 2012: Commencement Speech for the Master Class of Belk College of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • 2008 – December 2013: Regular Interviews Given to the German section of SBS-RADIO, the largest Australian Radio Station; Reporting about the Economic Situation in the United States. 
  • 2009 – Speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Challenges and Opportunities in the International Steel Trade”
  • 2008 - Staged a Speech-cum-Luncheon with Volker Schlöndorff, movie director (“Die Blechtrommel”)
  • 2008 – Speech at The Alemannia Society, Charlotte, about Hans Baldung Grien’s painting “Hexenlust und Sündenfall/Witches’ Lust and the Fall of Man” of 1523
  • 2005 – 2011: Instigation of “The Gateway Award” – awarding Companies/Institutions for Excellence in the German-American Business Relations; this Award was presented to the Recipient by the Secretary of Commerce of the State of North Carolina  
  • 2007 – Arranged an Art Exhibition for two German artists, Regine Bechtler and Dr. Birgit Wewers, at the German-American Chamber of Commerce, opened by the consul General of Germany, Dr. Lutz Görgens, and Kris Wolf, President and CEO of the German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern United States.
  • 2007 – Speech at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) “Why to Learn Another Language”
  • 2006 – Speech in Bilbao, Spain, at The Specialty Steel Conference, organized by SMR - Market Research, Reutte, Austria, and The Metal Bulletin, London, “Challenges and Opportunities in the International Steel Trade”
  • 1999-2008 – Yearly Moderation of the International Conference of the Southeastern World Affairs Institute organized by the American Freedom Association.
  • 1997 – Attendance of the Symposium “Entrepreneurship”, organized by the Wharton School of Economics; Participant in a Podium Discussion, among others with Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu (holder of most patents in the world)
  • 1996 – Inauguration-Speech at the Luncheon Celebrating the Merger of two law firms in Charlotte Kilpatrick-Stockton “Prejudices In the International Community”
  • 1996 - Speech in Pittsburgh at The Specialty Steel Conference, organized by the American Metal Market “Dangers of Anti-Dumping Actions Instigated by the U.S. Steel Industry” 
  • Since 1995 until to date, multiple steel-industry related speeches per year at the Pfeiffer University in Charlotte 
  • 1993 – 1995 – Numerous Speeches Nationwide in front of American Women in the Metal Industry “The Incredible Growth of SouthStar Steel – A Tale of A Small Privately-Held Company Among International Giants”


2005 – 2015: Great-Speaker Series within the GACC program. Arranged for speeches of

  • Jens Bischoff, Lufthansa General Manager of all of the Americas, (nowadays: Member of the Lufthansa Executive Board (Vorstand), Sales and Marketing
  •  Thorsten Meincke, Sr. Vice President for Sales and Marketing in the Executive Board of Kühne + Nagel
  • Theo Sommer, Editor-at-Large of DIE ZEIT
  •  Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States,
  • Gabor Steingart, at that time White House correspondent for DER SPIEGEL in Washington D.C., now Editor-in-Chief of DAS HANDELSBLATT
  • Dr. Margot Kaessmann, formerly Chair of the Evangelische Kirche Deutschland (EKD), now Professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • Josef Kerscher, CEO and President of BMW Manufacturing, Greer, S.C.
  •  Jürgen Siebenrock, Lufthansa German Airlines’ Vice President – The Americas, New York
  • Dr. Josef Joffe, Editor of DIE ZEIT – WACC Luncheon


Speakersare politicians, renowned international ambassadors, professors of top universities and representatives of the national and international media (e.g. CNN, DIE ZEIT).



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