Great Decisions | NATO's Future

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has come under increased scrutiny, not because NATO troops are involved in the conflict, but because of its role in relations between Russia and its neighbors. Will expanding membership in NATO protect countries, or will it further provoke Russia?

Join us for a timely discussion of this topic with Dr. Sonja Kreibich, Consul General of Germany to New England and Mustafa Soykurt, Consul General of France in Boston. The program will feature an expert discussion, live audience Q&A, and time for networking and discussion with other globally-oriented participants in the Newsfeed Café.

This program is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

The program will be live-streamed to Zoom from 6:00-7:00 PM. To attend virtually, please register here.

Dr. Sonja Kreibich took up her post as the Consul General of Germany to  the New England States in July 2022. Before arriving in Boston, she  served at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin as the Head of  Division for Pan African Issues, Southern Africa and the Great Lakes  from 2018-22. Prior to this, she served as the Head of Unit for European  Migration Policy from 2014-2018, and as press spokesperson in the  Speaker’s Office from 2002-2006. Sonja’s roles within the Foreign Office  have taken her abroad to the German Permanent Mission to the UN in  New York as well as to the German Embassy in Bucharest, Romania.  She studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of  Edinburgh and obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn.

Mustafa Soykurt is the Consul General of France in Boston, held the position of Technical Advisor for European Affairs at Matignon, in the offices of Édouard Philippe, Jean Castex and Élisabeth Borne. He had previously held the position of spokesperson, head of the press service of the Embassy of France in Italy (2016-2020) and had served in the Permanent Representation of France to the European Union in Brussels ( 2012-2016). In Paris, he worked at the Quai d'Orsay in the Directorate General for Globalization (2009-2012) and at the Ministry of Economy and Finance (2003-2009).