Dr. Martin Ney: The Nuremberg Principles and Modern International Law

American Friends of Bucerius and The American Council on Germany cordially invite you to a Discussion and Luncheon as part of the 2015 Transatlantic Global Agenda Series with

Ambassador Dr. Martin Ney
The Legal Adviser, German Federal Foreign Office

 who will speak on

 The Nuremberg Principles and Modern International Law

Ambassador Dr. Martin Ney is a career diplomat. He holds a doctoral degree in public international law as well as a M.A. in politics and economics from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes scholar. He started his diplomatic career in the Legal Department. From his posting in Thailand he was called back for the negotiations on the external aspects of German unification (the so-called “2+4-Negotiations”), where he acted as legal advisor and chair of the legal committee in the final round. After serving as Executive Assistant to the State Secretary of the Foreign Office he was posted to Washington as Counsellor for Politico-Military Affairs in 1993 before moving on to Tokyo in 1997.

From 2001 till 2005 he was the European Correspondent of the Foreign Office coordinating the German input to the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU. In 2005 he was appointed Ambassador and Senior Deputy High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. From 2007 till 2010 he served as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in New York.

Dr. Ney has been a member of the Toenissteiner Kreis since 1984; he is a former Young Leader of the Atlantik-Bruecke / American Council on Germany, and a member of the Atlantik-Bruecke e.V.