Founder & Founding Chairmen
Former US Ambassador to Germany, Diplomat, and Author; Founder
Former US Secretary of State; Founding Chairman
Attorney and Intelligence Officer; Founding Chairman
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany; Founding Chairman
Officers
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Co-Secretary
Co-Secretary
Trustees

Leon Botstein
President, Bard College

Martin Brand
Blackstone Private Equity

Gerhard Casper
Stanford University

Roger Cohen
Columnist, New York Times

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Film Director

Matthias Döpfner
Chairman & CEO, Axel Springer SE

Marina Kellen French
Philanthropist

Hans-Michael Giesen
Attorney, Giesen Heidbrink

Anthony Grafton
Princeton University

C. Boyden Gray
Boyden Gray & Associates

Vartan Gregorian
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Andrew Gundlach
Director, First Eagle Holdings

Wolfgang Herrmann
President, Technische Universität München

Stephan von Holtzbrinck
CEO, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Dirk Ippen
Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag

Wolfgang Ischinger
Chairman, Munich Security Conference

Josef Joffe
Editor & Publisher, Die Zeit

Michael Kellen
Director, First Eagle Holdings

Michael Klein
Managing Partner, M. Klein & Company LLC

Regine Leibinger
Architect, Barkow Leibinger

Pascal Levensohn
Levensohn Venture Partners

Vincent Mai
Chairman & CEO, Cranemere Group

Wolfgang Malchow
Managing Partner, Bosch

Nina von Maltzahn
Philanthropist

Kati Marton
Journalist & Author

Julie Mehretu
Visual Artist

Nader Mousavizadeh
Macro Advisory Partners

Sandra E. Peterson
Worldwide Chairman, Johnson & Johnson

Volker Schlöndorff
Filmmaker

Peter Y. Solmssen
General Counsel, AIG

Michael P. Steinberg (ex officio)
President, American Academy in Berlin

Anthony Vidler
Professor, Cooper Union, Yale University

Christine Wallich
Former Executive, World Bank

Ulrich Wilhelm
Director General, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Maureen White
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Andrew Wylie
The Wylie Agency

Pauline Yu
President, American Council of Learned Societies

Leah Joy Zell
Lizard Investors LLC
Senior Counselors

Richard Gaul
Deutscher Rat für Public Relations
Xavier Ohnesorg
Stiftung Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Bernhard von der Planitz
Former German Consul General to the United States
Victoria Scheibler

Karen Roth
Co-Founder and Advisory Board Treasurer, KCRW Berlin gGmbHTrustees, Officers, and Executives Emeriti

John P. Birkelund
Saratoga Partners

Diethart Breipohl
Former CFO, Allianz SE

Richard Goeltz
American Express

Karl M. von der Heyden
Chairman Emeritus

Wolfgang Mayrhuber
Former CEO, Lufthansa

Norman Pearlstine
President Emeritus

Gary Smith
Executive Director Emeritus

Fritz Stern (1926-2016)
Columbia University
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