Klaus W. Larres is a German-born historian and political scientist, currently the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina, and also an author.
[1] Larres was educated at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He is currently a Global Europe & Kissinger China Institute Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
[2] Along with previously holding the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at Library of Congress,[3] he is a member of the Royal Historical Society, International Institute for Strategic Studies and American Academy of Political and Social Science.
[4][5][6] He also formerly served as a senior policy advisor at the German Embassy in Beijing.