Officers
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
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Film Director
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
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
Josef Joffe
Freeman Spogli Insitute, Standford; Hoover Institution
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
John Kornblum
US Former Ambassador to Germany
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
Peter Y. Solmssen
Lawyer; fomer General Counsel and Management Board Member, Siemens AG
Anthony Vidler
Professor, Cooper Union, Yale University
Christine Wallich
Former Executive, World Bank
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
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 gGmbHAcademic Consultant
Officers, Executives, and Trustees Emeriti
Founders
Former US Ambassador to Germany, Diplomat, and Author; Founder
Philanthropist; Founding Benefactor
Co-Chairman, Arnhold & Bleichroeder Holdings; Philanthopist; Founding Benefactor
Former US Secretary of State; Founding Chairman
Attorney and Intelligence Officer; Founding Chairman
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany; Founding Chairman
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