The Sustainable Development Goals provide the political, economic and social framework for the United Nations’ efforts to respond to the challenges of the 21st century. With the current questioning of multilateralism, however, the World Organization sees many of the most urgent matters of the 2030 Agenda unresolved. H.E. Christian Braun will offer a global perspective on international cooperation and its most pressing, albeit disputed topics, including trade, climate and migration.

Christian Braun is the Luxembourg Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2016.

He graduated with a law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1985. After entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg and serving in the Political Affairs Directorate, he joined the Permanent Representation of Luxembourg to the EU in Brussels. He became the Luxembourg Permanent Representative to the Vienna based international organizations in 2005 and Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia.

After one year as the Director for International Economic Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg in 2008, Christian Braun subsequently became the Luxembourg Permanent Representative to the EU.