FORA.tv Speaker - Klaus Scharioth

Dr. Klaus Scharioth (born October 8, 1946) is a German diplomat, currently Germany's ambassador to the United States. Scharioth was born in Essen, located in the Ruhr Area in western Germany. He studied law in Bonn, Freiburg and Geneva and political science, sociology and psychology at Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. He is also a graduate of the Fletcher School, where he studied international relations, international law and international economics and received his PhD.