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. At present he is also a Global Europe & Kissinger China Institute Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
Larres served as a Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China (2018). He also worked as a Fellow at Germany's leading think tank, the Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin where he dealt with Germany's security and China policy.
He recently was a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. At UNC he is also the Director of the Krasno Global Affairs & Business Council/Krasno Global Events Series.
Larres’ policy and research expertise includes the following: 1. Current economic, security and political relations U.S.--China--EU/Germany; 2. Transatlantic relations, U.S., German, British, Russian & EU foreign policies; 3. The Global Cold War & 20th century international history.
Previously Klaus Larres was the holder of the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; a Member (Fellow) of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ.; a Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College/Tsinghua University in Beijing and a visiting professor at the Beijing Culture and Foreign Languages University and Tongji University in Shanghai. Larres also 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.
Born in Germany, Larres was educated at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics (LSE) in the UK. He has published widely on all of the above research themes. He frequently gives interviews to the global media and is often consulted by media organizations & think tanks and international businesses.
For his many book and article publications, please click on the taps below or above.
Klaus Larres likes to travel and explore the world.
He is keen on swimming, conversing, cultural things & putting the world to rights.
Klaus Larres grew up in the German Rhineland near Cologne and has two wonderful daughters.
He can be approached for speaking & consulting engagements.
He is happy to answer your messages - please email me on "[email protected]"
The pictures above display the locations where I spent a significant period of time in my life: Olef, Cologne, London, Belfast, Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, Berlin, Beijing --
