Chairman, Munich Security Conference Ambassador Ischinger has been Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) since 2008. A German career diplomat, he was the State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister) from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he was the Federal Republic of Germany's Ambassador to the US, and from 2006 to 2008, to the Court of St James'. He is a Senior Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and serves on the boards of numerous companies as well as non-profit-institutions, including Atlantik-Brücke/Berlin, AICGS/Washington D. C., the American Academy/Berlin, and the Atlantic Council of the United States/Washington D.C.