Michael Werz is a Senior Adviser for North America and Multilateral Affairs to the Munich Security Conference and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington where his work over the past 15 years has been focused on the nexus of climate change, migration, and security and emerging countries, especially Turkey, Mexico, and Brazil. He is a non-resident fellow at the Center on Contemporary China and the World at Hong Kong University and the Co-director of Nexus25. Werz has published numerous articles and several books dealing with a wide range of scholarly and policy issues, including race and ethnicity in the 20th century; Western social and intellectual history; minorities in Europe and the United States; ethnic conflicts, politics in Europe, and anti-Americanism. He is a graduate of Frankfurt University’s Institute for Philosophy, a former professor at Hannover University in Germany, and a former and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies. Photo: © Michael Werz
