Volker Perthes

Volker Perthes      (academic)
Born	16 May 1958 Duisburg-Homberg, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Duisburg, University of Bochum
Member of	Atlantic Bridge (Germany), German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Trilateral Commission
German spooky double Bilderberger "security" academic, frequently chosen as commentator in German state and corporate media. TLC

Volker Perthes is a German political scientist. He was director and Executive Chairman of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (which was founded in 1962 under the direction of the CIA), and a member of the deep state Atlantik-Brücke. Perthes is frequently chosen as commentator in German state and corporate media on German and European foreign policy, international relations and geopolitics, as well as on the Middle East. He attended the 2007 and 2008 Bilderberg meetings.

Education

After studying political science at the University of Duisburg, Perthes received a graduate scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, with which he conducted research in Damascus from 1986 to 1987. He received his doctorate in Duisburg in 1990.

Career

From 1991 to 1993, Perthes was an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut and then taught at the Universities of Duisburg, Münster and Munich.

Since 1992 Volker Perthes has been working for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). The main task of the SWP is to advise the German Bundestag and the Federal Government on all issues of foreign and security policy. Until April 2005, Volker Perthes headed the Middle East and Africa Research Group, from October 2005 to September 2020 he was director of the SWP. He continued to teach as an adjunct professor at the Humboldt University and as an honorary professor at Free University of Berlin until 2019.

In September 2015, Perthes was called by the UN Special Representative for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, to the UN talks for a peace process in Syria, initially as Assistant Secretary General/Senior Advisor to the UN Special Representative. Since October 2016, he has headed the Cease Fire Task Force (CTF). In January 2021, Perthes was appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan and head of the new UN mission UNITAMS.

Due to the ongoing fighting in Khartoum and other cities, the UNITAMS mission under the leadership of Perthes moved to Port Sudan to continue its mission in a safer environment. On June 8, 2023, Sudanese general and de facto head of government Abdel Fattah Burhan declared Perthes, who was outside the country, an "undesirable person". He was accused of encouraging the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to take up arms against the Sudanese army.

After initially trying to carry out his job from outside the country, Perthes submitted his resignation on September 13, 2023. In view of the continuing military clashes in Sudan, he considered it impossible to effectively carry out his work from the outside.

Following his work for the United Nations in Sudan, Perthes was appointed in October 2023 as head of the independent strategic review of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which was launched by Security Council Resolution 2682.

"Rules-based international order"

[[QB|An alliance of willing states must devise international rules without raising the suspicion that this is about Western dominance.}}

Board positions

Prior to his nomination for the UN in Sudan, Perthes was a member of a number of advisory boards, including the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), as chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), and the Robert Bosch International Advisory Council.

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Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2007	31 May 2007	3 June 2007	Turkey Istanbul	The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly	The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Brussels Forum/2007			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2010	5 February 2010	7 February 2010	Germany Munich Bavaria	An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability."
Munich Security Conference/2011	4 February 2011	6 February 2011	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011	26 January 2011	30 January 2011	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".

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