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The Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation
Metin Hakverdi took up the post of Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation on 28 May 2025.
The transatlantic partnership is a key pillar of Germany’s foreign policy. The United States and Canada are Germany’s closest allies outside Europe. Large areas of common interests, shared challenges and fundamental values form a bond between our democracies on both sides of the Atlantic. How close transatlantic relations are is clear also from the multitude of societal and cultural contacts between Germany and the United States and Germany and Canada. Promoting these ties in the long term is the task of the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation. Metin Hakverdi assumed office as the new Coordinator on 28 May 2025.
His official title is Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy. The Coordinator’s work focuses, among other things, on cooperation in science and research, current social policy issues such as demographic trends and the impact of new media, as well as contacts to Jewish organisations. He also supports networking between people in Germany and North America and seeks to build bridges between the partners.
The office of Coordinator of German-American Cooperation was created as far back as 1981; it was later renamed and expanded to comprise cooperation with Canada. Germany’s Coordinators have included former Minister of State Hildegard Hamm-Brücher; political scientist Prof. Werner Weidenfeld, currently at LMU Munich; Member of the Bundestag Peter Beyer and, most recently, Member of the Bundestag Michael Link.