Creating value through dialogue, expertise, and networks.

The Foreign Council On Economic Relations is a platform for bilateral relations, FDI, and geopolitics.

We provide foreign embassies, politics, investors, and multinational companies a one-stop-shop for expertise and collaboration.

Leadership

Promoting mutual understanding, the rule of law, sustainability, and multilateralism.

Maximilian Hoffmann

President

– President, Foreign Council On Economic Relations (Jan 2024 – Present)
– President and CEO, Foreign Council On Economic Relations (2022 – 2023)
– Executive Chairman and Secretary-General, Foreign Council On Economic Relations (2019 – 2022)
– Deputy-Spokesperson of the Executive Board, Alliance of Associations (2020 – 2023)
– Secretary-General, Federal Business Associations of Germany and the Gulf Cooperation Council (2016 – 2019)
– Chairman, German Partner (2017 – 2018)
– Member of the Board of Directors, Federal Association of German Business in Ukraine (2008 – 2016)

Alexander Kulitz, MdB a.D.

Vice-President and Chairman

– CEO, Foreign Council On Economic Relations (Jan 2024 – Present)
– Chairman, Foreign Council On Economic Relations (2021 – 2023)
– Member, German Federal Parliament / Bundestag, FDP (2017 – 2021)
– Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag (2018 – 2021)
– Deputy Chairman, Parliamentary Group for Relations with the ASEAN States German Bundestag (2018 – 2021)
– Federal Chairman, Junior Chamber of Commerce Germany WJD (2017 – 2018)

Andrej Gross

Vice President (hon.)

– Director, Deutsche Messe AG