Greeting by Darion Akins

Happy 10th Birthday, KLU! The US Consulate General Hamburg is delighted to join you in celebrating “10 years of award-winning teaching and research.” This is an exciting milestone for such a young institution. KLU can look back on an excellent record of accomplishments over the past decade. At the same time, it can look forward to its continued flourishing as a dynamic innovation hub and an inspiring launch pad for future leaders in what enables our trade relationship: transport and logistics.

KLU invites and forges global intersections: with its interdisciplinary approach to education and research as well as its international faculty and student body. Its exchange programs enrich our ability to jointly tackle global challenges. With its very location in Hamburg’s HafenCity, it is at once steeped in the Hanseatic and transatlantic traditions of connecting people and markets while also being future-oriented.

Congratulations to the KLU community on this special anniversary, and best wishes for its continued success!

Darion Akins
U.S. Consul General in Hamburg