JD Bindenagel and Hubertus Hoffmann

James D. Bindenagel Former American ambassador and 28-year veteran of the U.S. diplomatic corps, Bindenagel was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 as U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust issues and negotiated agreements on compensation for World War II-era forced labor, insurance, art, and property restitution as well as Holocaust education, research and remembrance. From 2002-2003, Bindenagel was special U.S. negotiator for "Conflict Diamonds" and negotiated a worldwide ban on sales of illicit, rough "conflict" diamonds which had financed insurrections against legitimate governments in Africa. He was U.S. Chargé d'Affaires and deputy chief of mission in the U.S. Embassy, Bonn, Germany, from 1994 to 1997 and director for Central European Affairs in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs at the State Department from 1992 to 1994. He was U.S. deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, East Germany, at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and helped negotiate the reunification of Germany. He received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001, the Commander’s Cross of the Federal Order of Merit from the President of Germany in 2001 and the Presidential Meritorious Service Award from President George W. Bush in 2002. Hubertus Hoffmann Founder and President of globalo.com and the World Security Network Foundation.