Explainer Series

Why is Germany interested
in the Indo-Pacific?

April 2025

Bertil Wenger, Director, Regional Office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for Australia, New Zealand and the Southern Pacific.

Bertil is the director of the regional office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for Australia, New Zealand and the Southern Pacific since 2021. He is a lawyer by profession with more than 20-years of experience in policy consulting in the German Bundestag, public affairs companies and the CDU Headquarters in Berlin, where he was Director of International Relations from 2011 – 2021. His fields of experience include international relations and party developments, as well as foreign and security policy.