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Thomas Bagger

Thomas Bagger

Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Thomas Bagger has served as Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany since March 2017. Before joining the German Diplomatic Service in 1992, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of International Affairs (SWP) in Ebenhausen, Germany. His postings abroad have included Prague (1996-1998), Ankara (2002-2006), and Washington D.C. (2006-2009). Prior to his current assignment, Bagger was Head of Policy Planning at the German Foreign Ministry from 2011-2017. He also worked as a speechwriter for Foreign Ministers Klaus Kinkel and Joschka Fischer.
Subjects:
Defence, Europe, European Union, Germany, History, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Updated: January 25, 2016

Agenda

Thinking Cannot Be a Campaign
LMC 2019
Defence, Ukraine
Future of Ukraine: “Is Minsk Doable?”
LMC 2016
European Union, United Kingdom
The UK-EU Relationship: Therapy or Divorce?
LMC 2013
Europe, Germany, Poland
Poland and Germany: Rebalancing the Weimar Triangle?
LMC 2013
Europe, European Union, Germany
Lostpolitik: Can Germany Rise to Its Leadership Challenge?
LMC 2011

Talks

Kadri Liik and Thomas Bagger
Europe, Germany, History, Russia
Time for International Sobriety

The world of yesterday is gone or rapidly eroding, and it makes it hard to establish foreign policy directions. In the great power competition, Europe seems to be confused because Russia today is not the Russia that the West imagined it to become after 1989.…

Thomas Bagger ,  Kadri Liik
January 25, 2021