Lutz Gorgens, Germany’s consul general here, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta in his position as dean of the Atlanta Consular Corps.

Dr. Gorgens replaced Reda Mansour, former dean of the consular corps and former consul general of Israel to the Southeast, who has returned to Israel.

The World Affairs Council, a non-profit and non-partisan organization affiliated with Georgia State University and the university’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, automatically invites the acting dean to represent the corps as an ex officio member of the board. The dean is the longest serving consul general of the consular corps.

Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, serves as founding chairman of the council’s board of directors.

Other members of the board include David P. Abney, chief operating officer, United Parcel Service Inc.; Mark Becker, president, Georgia State University; W. Frank Blount, chairman and CEO of JI Ventures Inc.;

Jeffrey T. Bowman, president and CEO, Crawford & Co.; Dave R. Forquer, assistant dean for executive education, J. Mack Robinson College of Business; Helene D. Gayle, president and CEO, CARE;

Gordon Giffin, partner and chair of the Public Policy and International Department, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP; Kwanza Hall, District 2 member of Atlanta City Council and director of business development, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.;

H. Fenwick Huss, dean, J. Mack Robinson College of Business; Eric J. Joiner, vice chairman, AJC International Inc.; Board of Advisors, J. Mack Robinson College of Business,

Jagdish Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt professor of marketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, founder and  chairman of India, China, America Institute and director, Wipro Ltd.; Clyde C. Tuggle, senior vice president for Global Public Affairs and Communications, Coca-Cola Co.

Officers of the council are Wayne Lord, president; Cedric L. Suzman, executive vice president and director of programming and Christopher C. Brown, vice president for research and analysis.

For more information, go to http://robinson.gsu.edu/wacatl/index.html or call Clare Morton at (404) 413-7083.

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