• 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"

  • 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.

  • Prior to moving to the U.S. he was a professor in Politics & International Relations at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland and at the University of London.

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

    -- The pictures above display the locations where I spent a significant period of time in my life. --