2024 Young Leaders Conference Report

Published on February 14, 2025

The American Council on Germany’s 44th American-German Young Leaders Conference brought together 23 Americans and 28 Germans representing mid-career professionals from various industries, fields, and personal backgrounds from business, academia, politics, and government.

This year’s conference witnessed both parallels and contrasts to the previous year’s. Continuing themes were Russia’s war in Ukraine and the ongoing question of how to respond to China’s growing geopolitical power. In addition, growing populism within both the American and German publics and a turn away from international engagement would continue to challenge participants to consider previously axiomatic assumptions of transatlantic cooperation and how they might communicate the strength of U.S.-German ties to the average citizen.

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