Distinguished Guests

Future Guests
Coming soon
Past Guests
December 1, 2022 – Mio Maeda, Consul General of Japan in Atlanta to the US Southeast; Nao Arii, Consul at the Consulate of Japan in Atlanta; and Hiroyuki Akiyama, JETRO Chief Executive Director for the US Southeast
November 16, 2022 – Rory Power and Jane O’Sullivan from Enterprise Ireland
November 4, 2022 – French Delegation including Xavier Bressaud and Benoit Faivre of the French Embassy
November 3, 2022 – German American Chamber of Commerce, Marshall Memorial Fellowship
November 3, 2022 – Clayton County Development Authority
October 5, 2022 – Noodoe CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Chang and Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Atlanta Director, Economic Division Martin Chen
October 5, 2022 – PROCOLOMBIA Regional Trade Representative Hernando Galindo
September 27, 2022 – Graduate students from FOM in Essen, Germany participating in a program at Mercer University
September 20, 2022 – Consular Corps – see list of attendees
August 17, 2022
- Cordell Schachter – U.S. Department of Transportation Chief Information officer
- Ken Leonard – Federal Highway Administration Director ITS Joint Program Office
- Carl Andersen – Federal Highway Administration Technical Director, Operations, Office of Safety and Operations
August 17, 2022 – Consul Arii Nao and Consul Kenji Inoue from the Consulate-General of Japan in Atlanta and MUFG Vice President Yoko Harrison and Managing Director Keiichiro Mizutani
July 27, 2022 – Irish Consul General
July 7, 2022 – Josh Delaney – Legislative Director for Reverend Raphael Warnock
July 28, 2022 – Laurens van Doeveren, Netherlands Deputy Consul General to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama; and Martijn Asselbergs, Senior Economic Policy Officer
July 27, 2022 – Irish Consul General
July 7, 2022 – Josh Delaney – Legislative Director for Reverend Raphael Warnock
June 6, 2022 – Bruxelles Fiscalité – Fiscaliteit Brussel General Director Dirk De Smedt, PA to General Director Tom Ghijsels and Head of IT and Projects Roselyne Goossens
June 7, 2022 – French Delegation visit including:
- Dr. Carine BERNAULT, President of Nantes University,
- Dr. Olivier MENARD, Dean of the Law and Political Sciences School, Nantes University,
- Dr. Catherine DELCONT, Vice-Dean for International Relations at the Law and Political Sciences School, Nantes University,
- Dr. Etienne PICARD, Professor Emeritus University in Public Law Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ex Director of the International and Comparative Law Institute, Oxford University,
- Professors and members of the Center for Ethics at Emory and the French Embassy.
June 7, 2022 – JETRO
May 18, 2022 – Volkswagen with T-Mobile
May 16, 2022 – EU Diplomat visit including:
- Mr. Michael Curtis, Deputy Ambassador of the European Union to the US
- Mr. Pablo Sanz, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Spain in the US
- Mr. Henrik Bramsen Hahn, Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of Denmark in the US
- Ms. Alexandra Bilreiro, Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of Portugal in Washington
- Mr. Jan Gruenhage, Head of Political Department, Embassy of Germany in US
- Ms. Svetlana Doboszova, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Czech Republic in the US
- Mr. Danijel Medan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Croatia in the US
- Mr. Gilles Bauer, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Luxembourg in the US
- Mr. Boris Ecker, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Slovak Republic in the US
- Mr. Adam Krzywosądzki, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Poland in the US
- Mr. Alessandro Gonzales, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Italy in the US
- Mr. Dovydas Spokauskas, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Lithuania in the US
- Mr. Margus Särglepp, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Estonia in the US
- Ms. Maria Savvidou-Panayiotou, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Cyprus in the US
- Mr. Juris Pekalis, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Latvia in the US
- Mr. Maarten Boef, Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the US
- Ms. Aurélie Bonal, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of France in the US
- Ms. Anita Stanković Pavlič, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Slovenia in the US
- Mr. Jan De Pauw, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Belgium in the US
May 4, 2022 – Canadian Consul General James Hill and Senior Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Reid
May 3, 2022 – Representative Carolyn Bourdeaux
March 25, 2022 – Georgia Department of Economic Development
March 25, 2022 – Kennesaw State University
March 16, 2022 – Bosch
February 17, 2022 – German Consul General
February 14, 2022 – Dean of Consular Corps and Consul General of Mexico
January 20, 2022 – Peach County Innovation Partners
December 9, 2021 – Israel Consul General and Deputy Chief of Mission
September 9, 2021 – French American Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting at Curiosity Lab
September 2, 2021 – Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce CEO Katie Kirkpatrick
August 27, 2021 – Swiss Ambassador
July 29, 2021 – City of Aurora, IL
June 25, 2021 – Spanish Trade Commissioner
June 21, 2021 – Ministry of International Relations of Quebec
April 28, 2021 – Canadian Consul General
April 26, 2021 – Congresswoman Carolyn Bordeaux
April 1, 2021 – Belgian Consul General and Flemish Investment and Trade Commissioner
March 26, 2021 – Japanese Consul General
March 24, 2021 – Louisiana Tech
January 20, 2021 – Georgia Tech