The Challenge of Immigration: Benefits and Obstacles to Seeking an Integrated Workforce 

The Minneapolis Eric M. Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany 

and the 

German American Chamber of Commerce Midwest, Minnesota Chapter

 cordially invite you to a

Discussion and Luncheon with

 Christopher Cermak
Journalist, Former Editor at Handelsblatt Global

 on

 “The Challenge of Immigration: Benefits and Obstacles to Seeking an Integrated Workforce.”

Tuesday, November 27, 2018
11:30 - 12:00 - Registration & Lunch
12:00 - 1:30 - Presentation Followed by Discussion Q & A 

at

Turck, Inc.
3000 Campus Drive, Plymouth, MN 55441

 $25.00 - GACC & ACG Members
$35.00 - Non-Members 

Register Now! 

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Christopher Cermak is a journalist who has returned to the United States after more than six years in Germany. He has most recently worked as an editor and correspondent for Handelsblatt Global in Berlin, covering a range of issues including politics, finance and economics. Before that he worked for the financial news agency MNI (Market News International) out of Frankfurt and as a U.S. correspondent in Washington D.C. for the German Press Agency dpa. A native English and German speaker, Chris graduated from the University of York in England and the London School of Journalism, and recently completed a course in political psychology at Stanford. Chris has recently returned to the United States in a bid to understand, explore and counter the dynamics of partisanship, polarization, prejudice and integration challenges that have divided people and communities across the country.

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This program was made possible by a generous grant to the American Council on Germany through the European Recovery Program – Transatlantic Encounters 

About the American Council on Germany:

The Eric M. Warburg Chapters of the American Council on Germany provide members and the general public around the United States with a dynamic forum for discussing economic, political, and social issues on the transatlantic agenda. 

There is a strong, active and close-knit community of German-Americans in Minnesota and the Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter is a critical component of the network of German-American organizations in Minnesota.  The chapter provides programming for events conducted by the German-American Chamber of Commerce (GACC); Germanic-American Institute and the Honorary Consul and works in cooperation with the German Immersion School and the Center for German and European Studies.