Senior Counsellor, Noerr LLP, Berlin

Expertise:
•    Transatlantic Relations
•    European Affairs

Ambassador Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as one of the most eminent American experts on European-American political and economic relations, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe. Ambassador Kornblum served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that he occupied a number of high level diplomatic posts including Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Special envoy for the Dayton Peace Process, Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process), deputy U.S. Ambassador to NATO and U.S. Minister and Deputy Commandant of Forces in divided Berlin. From 2001 - 2009, he was chairman of Lazard Freres Germany. Nowadays, he serves as Senior Counsellor to the international law firm Noerr, Stiefenhofer Lutz and as a senior advisor to the world wide consultancy Accenture. Mr. Kornblum has served on a number of supervisory and advisory boards including Thyssen-Krupp, Technologies AG, Bayer AG, Russell Reynolds and Motorola Europe. He is a member of the boards of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, the American Academy in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and of numerous non-profit organizations on both sides of the Atlantic.