Officers
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Treasurer
Secretary
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
Emily Haber
German Ambassador to the United States (ret.)
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
Joe Kaeser
Senior Advisor, EIG; former Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy AG; Daimler Truck Holding AG
Carol Kahn Strauss
Former Director, Leo Baeck Institute; Philanthropist
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
Christoph Schweizer
CEO, Boston Consulting Group
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
President, Joy Foundation
Senior Counselors
Academic 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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