UNA-USA Dane County Events

UN Day Luncheon at the Monona Terrace

12:30 to 3:30 pm  Sunday October 24, 2010

Our speaker will be  Wolfgang A. Schmidt,  chair of the Governor’s Commission on the United Nations in Madison, Wisconsin.

Wolfe has eighteen years of executive experience in Europe and the United States (including twelve years as an entrepreneur and owner of a manufacturing company in the U.S.). His business expertise is complemented by years of academic research and lectures in the field of international affairs along with a broad range of civil society engagements on both sides of the Atlantic.

He is presently a member of the boards of the Foreign Policy Association in New York, International Institute of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and the Center for International Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He serves on the Advisory Councils of the International Business Center at the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business and the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the latter of which he chairs.

Wolfe is currently involved with international organizations where public and private sectors, acting together work to make a difference on the human level. He holds a masters degree in international relations and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.