• Dr Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA;

  • he serves as a Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing,
    China (2018);  Email: "pol-6@peki.diplo.de"

  • he is a Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College/Tsinghua University in Beijing  &  a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, in Washington, DC;

  • he runs the Krasno Global Affairs & Business Council and organizes the Krasno Events Series at UNC-Chapel Hill:  www.krasnoevents.com
    he also runs a you tube channel:  www.youtube.com/KrasnoUNC;

  • he has 3 main research fields & is widely published in all these areas: 
  • - 1. relations (political and economic) among the U.S.-China-Europe/Germany
          &     western policy toward China
  • - 2. transatlantic relations & U.S., British, German foreign policy & EU politics 
  • - 3. the Cold War  &  the life and politics of Winston Churchill in war and peace.

  • Klaus Larres likes to travel and explore the world;
  • he is keen on swimming, conversing, reading & writing, and putting the world to rights;
  • he can be approached for speaking & consulting engagements;
  • he is happy to answer your messages  - please email me.

  • Klaus Larres is the former holder of the Henry A Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.  He was selected as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ.  Larres also served as a Fellow at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin dealing with Germany's security and China policy.

  • Previously Larres was the Clifford Hackett Visiting Professor in European History at Yale University and a Visiting Professor of European Politics at Johns Hopkins University/School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC.  He also was a professor in Politics & International Relations at the University of London and at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

    Klaus Larres grew up in the German Rhineland near Cologne and was educated in both Germany and the UK.