Sven Kraemer

Sven Kraemer (academic)
Alma mater	Harvard, UCB
Parents	Fritz G. A. Kraemer
Member of	Institute of World Politics, Le Cercle
Interests	• National Security • U.S. Foreign Policy • Arms control
[[|?]] In office 1987 - 1989 Employer U.S. House of Representatives  Director of Arms Control In office 1981 - 1987 Employer National Security Council  Senior Staff Member for Defense and Foreign Policy In office 1978 - 1981 Employer U.S. Senate  Staff member In office 1967 - 1976 Employer National Security Council  [[|?]] In office 1963 - 1967 Employer Office of the Secretary of Defense

Sven F. Kraemer has worked as a policy advisor to Douglas J. Feith, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy[1].

Background

Sven Kraemer's father was Fritz G. A. Kraemer, a veteran Pentagon policy advisor and sometime friend of Henry Kissinger. In 1961 he studied at Harvard College. In 1964 he was awarded an MA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Career

Kraemer was a guest lecturer at the Institute of World Politics [2], where he is teaching a course on "U.S. National Security Strategy, Emerging Threats, and Arms Control" [3].

He has worked with Frank Carlucci, the US National Security Advisor.

Kraemer was also project director for "The Soviet Union Fights The Cold War", a CD-ROM of Reagan administration documents produced by the American Foreign Policy Council. The page on the AFPC site promoting the CD features endorsements from prominent neo-conservative luminaries. For example, Donald Rumsfeld says the disc contains "Compelling details on the specifics of the Soviet threat to the world." [4]

In 2000 he was President of Global Challenge.

Kraemer was an instructor in political philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley [5].

Award

Sven Kraemer was given the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, th highest civilian award, for the first time awarded to a non-Department of Defense Official.

External links

• Biography of Sven Kraemer (undated) on the website of The Institute of World Politics.
• List of Sven Kraemer's files for 1981-1987 at the Reagan Library. Obtaining access to most of these files will require a FOIA request.
• Promotional page for "The Soviet Union Fights The Cold War", American Foreign Policy Council website, 2003.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates	30 November 1979	1 December 1979		Spooky 1979 Washington conference
Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy	9 November 1984	10 November 1984		A spooky conference in November 1984
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)	7 January 1985	10 January 1985	US Washington DC	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011

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