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Trustees

Stefan Asenkerschbaumer

Managing Partner, Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Robert Bosch GmbH

Klaus Biesenbach

Director, Neue Nationalgalerie

Manfred Bischoff

Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Mercedes-Benz Group

Leon Botstein

President, Bard College

Martin Brand

Blackstone Private Equity

Gahl Burt

Chairman Emerita

Benno Dorer

Consumer Goods CEO and Board Director, Philanthropist

Mathias Döpfner

Chairman & CEO, Axel Springer SE

Marina Kellen French

Philanthropist

Jeffrey Goldberg

Editor in Chief, "The Atlantic"; moderator, "Washington Week with The Atlantic" on PBS

Andrew Gundlach

Co-CEO / President, Bleichroeder LP

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Film Director

Tim Höttges

Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG

Johannes Huth

Partner and Chairman, EMEA, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR)

Dirk Ippen

Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag

Wolfgang Ischinger

President, Munich Security Conference Foundation Council

Carol Kahn Strauss

Former Director, Leo Baeck Institute; Philanthropist

Joe Kaeser

Senior Advisor, EIG; former Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy AG; Daimler Truck Holding AG

Michael Kellen

Chairman / co-CEO Bleichroeder LP

Michael Klein

Managing Partner, M. Klein & Company LLC

Joseph Koerner

Professor, Harvard University

Harold Hongju Koh

Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Regine Leibinger

Architect, Barkow Leibinger

Tess Lewis

Writer and Translator; American Academy Alumna

Kati Marton

Journalist & Author

Julie Mehretu

Visual Artist; Academy Alumna

Jeffrey A. Rosen

Deputy Chairman, Lazard

Volker Schlöndorff

Filmmaker

Michael Sen

CEO, Fresenius Management SE

Christine Wallich

Former World Bank Director

Caroline A. Wamsler

Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University

Kai Wegner

Governing Mayor of Berlin (trustee ex officio)

Maureen White

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Writer, Academy Alumnus

Andrew Wylie

The Wylie Agency

Leah Joy Zell

Lizard Investors LLC

Senior Counselors

Richard Gaul

Deutscher Rat für Public Relations

Bernhard von der Planitz

Former German Consul General to the United States

Victoria Scheibler

Karen Roth

Co-Founder and Advisory Board Treasurer, KCRW Berlin gGmbH

Academic Consultant

Michael Steinberg

Academy Alumnus; Brown University

Officers, Executives, and Trustees Emeriti

Gahl Burt

Chairman Emerita

Karl M. von der Heyden

Chairman Emeritus

Norman Pearlstine

President Emeritus

Gary Smith

Executive Director Emeritus

John P. Birkelund (1930-2019)

Trustee Emeritus; Saratoga Partners

Diethart Breipohl

Trustee Emeritus; Former CFO, Allianz SE

Richard Goeltz (1942-2020)

Trustee Emeritus; American Express

Wolfgang Mayrhuber (1947-2018)

Trustee Emeritus; Former CEO, Lufthansa

Fritz Stern (1926-2016)

Trustee Emeritus; Columbia University

Founders

Richard C. Holbrooke (1941-2010)
Former US Ambassador to Germany, Diplomat, and Author; Founder
Anna-Maria Kellen (1918-2017)
Philanthropist; Founding Benefactor
Stephen M. Kellen (1914-2004)
Co-Chairman, Arnhold & Bleichroeder Holdings; Philanthopist; Founding Benefactor
Henry A. Kissinger (1923-2023)
Former US Secretary of State; Founding Chairman
Thomas Farmer (1923-2015)
Attorney and Intelligence Officer; Founding Chairman
Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015)
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany; Founding Chairman

The American Academy in Berlin is a registered nonprofit organization in the United States and Germany. We would be pleased to provide any public-domain information. Please address any questions Bailey G. Bretz, Manager, Board Administration, at bbr@americanacademy.de

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