Sigmar Gabriel is chairman of Atlantik-Brücke and a Senior Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). In fall 2018, he served as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at CES.
Gabriel brings a wealth of experience at the local, federal and international levels. He assumed several leading posts in the German government, most recently as Minister for Foreign Affairs (2017-2018) and Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018). Prior to that, he was Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (2013-2017) and Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (2005-2009). Gabriel was one of the longest-serving leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 2009 to 2017.
