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

  • previously he 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.;  and a Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College/Tsinghua University in Beijing.

  • he has recently been appointed to serve on the 'International Board' of the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung in Berlin and on the board of directors of the Carolina China Council in Raleigh, NC. He also is a senior adviser to the Chinese-American Friendship Association (CAECA) in Raleigh, NC; and a board member of the Berlin, Germany, based foreign policy journal WeltTrends.

  • 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. current economic, security and political relations among the U.S.-China-
           Europe &     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 also was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR) at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, in Washington, DC (2010-2018); and he  served 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.

  • 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.

  • Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2009 he was Jean Monnet Professor of European Foreign & Security Policy at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland; Professor in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of London (Royal Holloway) and the University of Ulster in N. Ireland.

  • Klaus Larres grew up in the German Rhineland near Cologne and was educated in both Germany and the UK.  He has two wonderful teenage daughters.

    -- 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 --