CLC’s Latest Rosenmeier Forum: Global Challenges After the 2022 Midterm Elections

Release from Central Lakes College:

The community is invited to attend the next Rosenmeier Forum with former State Department
official Thomas Hanson at both noon and 7 pm on Wednesday, November 30 in the Chalberg
Theatre, Central Lakes College Brainerd campus.

With winter approaching, war in Ukraine rages and US allies struggle with energy crises that
have caused some to turn away from green policies. Meanwhile, the world economy is impacted
by food and energy inflation and by an incipient U.S. tech war against China. This program will
analyze these and other global trends.

Hanson is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State whose diplomatic
postings included East Germany, France, Norway, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and the former
Soviet Republic of Georgia. He also participated in the opening of new U.S. embassies in
Mongolia and Estonia, worked on the Foreign Relations Committees of the U.S. Senate and
House of Representatives, and served as Director for NATO and European Affairs at the Atlantic
Council of the United States in Washington, D.C.

Chair of the forum Laura Raedeke said, “Back by popular demand, Thomas Hanson will
continue to inform us about the far-reaching effects of our state and federal elections on the
wider world, as well as on our own regions and localities. His ability to see the comprehensive
big picture enables us to make the necessary connections that we may otherwise miss, in a world
where everything is now interconnected.”

Hanson is currently Diplomat in Residence at the Alworth Institute for International Affairs at
the University of Minnesota – Duluth and has taught diplomacy at Carleton College. He also
serves as Chair of the Minnesota Committee on Foreign Relations and as Co-Chair of the
Minnesota China Business Council. He is a past board member of the Oslo Center for Peace and
Human Rights and past Director at the Institute for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (IEECA).