Special Guests on board!
Special guests await the delegates at BRIMUN 2009 in Bremen's historical Obere Rathaushalle
Every year, BRIMUN invites senior guest speakers with experience in the world of international politics to share their insight and opinions with the delegates. For this year's conference we are delighted to welcome Willi Lemke, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace and John Kornblum, Senator for Education and Research of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Renate Jürgens-Pieper and former ambassador of the United States to Germany, as distinguished orators. Both Willi Lemke and Renate Jürgens-Pieper will be BRIMUN's 2009 Patrons. John Kornblum will deliver the keynote address during the opening ceremony, sharing some of his valuable experiences as a senior diplomat and appraisal of current transatlantic relations. We will soon announce the concrete topics of both talks and would like to express our gratitude for their support. Look forward to humorous and interesting speeches.
Willi (Wilfried) Lemke is a German politician and former manager of the football club Werder Bremen. He has just recently been appointed Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace. The record of his political career is closely tied to the City of Bremen for which he served as Minister for Science and Education from 1999 to 2007 and as Minister for the Interior and Sport from 2007 to 2008. Today, Willi Lemke is a member of the City Council of Bremen and chairman of the prominent football club Werder Bremen which successfully plays in Germany's First Division! Mr. Lemke will be our UN Patron.
Renate Jürgens-Pieper is a German politician (Social Democratic Party) and since 2007 Senator for Education and Research of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. She has been minister for education of the state of Niedersachsen/ Germany from 1999 to 2003. She will be our Senat Patron.
John C. Kornblum served as the US Ambassador to Germany from 1997 until 2001. Known as an entertaining and incisive speaker, he is one of the leading experts in transatlantic relations at the moment and can draw from many years of diplomatic experience in the US Foreign Service. The career diplomat enjoyed a distinguished career of over three decades as a United States representative to Europe, starting in 1964 as a junior official in Germany. After a decade in Germany he returned to Washington where he worked for several years in the State Department with repeated visits also to Germany. Between 1987 and 1991 John Kornblum was permanent representative of the Unites States to the NATO in Brussels and thereafter held the same position at the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) until 1994. For five years he represented the United States as ambassador in Germany and in the following worked as a manager for an investment bank.