Joschka Fischer

Professional topics include international relations, nuclear issues, Europe, government and politics, foreign policy, environment and sustainability. Joschka Fischer was a former German Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2005. He pushed the Green Party to the center of German politics and led it to participate in national and federal government affairs for the first time. Fischer's tenure as Foreign Minister was an important period in the history of German diplomacy. He witnessed Germany's first military operation in the Kosovo War after World War II, as well as its deployment of troops in Afghanistan and joint intervention with NATO. Fischer took the lead in expressing the government's opposition to launching the Iraq War. In 2003, he and the foreign ministers of Britain and France held EU3 talks with Iran on their nuclear program. In 1994, Fischer began to participate in federal politics and became the co chairman of the Green Party's federal parliamentary group. He later joined Schroeder's cabinet in 1998. In 2005, Schroeder left the government department and became a senior independent researcher at the Liechtenstein Institute and a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Afterwards, he continued to actively participate in international diplomatic affairs and has been serving as a senior strategic advisor to the Albright Group since 2008. He is also a member of the Spinelli Group and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Crisis Group, as well as co chair of the European Committee on Foreign Relations.