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
Trustees
Klaus Biesenbach
Director, MOCA
Manfred Bischoff
Daimler
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
Hans-Michael Giesen
Partner, Legerwall Law Firm
C. Boyden Gray
Boyden Gray & Associates
Vartan Gregorian
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Andrew Gundlach
Director, First Eagle Holdings
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
Joseph Koerner
Professor, Harvard University
Regine Leibinger
Architect, Barkow Leibinger
Wolfgang Malchow
Managing Partner, Bosch
Kati Marton
Journalist & Author
Julie Mehretu
Visual Artist, Academy Alumna
Nader Mousavizadeh
Macro Advisory Partners
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Deputy Chairman, Lazard
Volker Schlöndorff
Filmmaker
Peter Y. Solmssen
Anthony Vidler
Professor, Cooper Union, Yale University
Christine Wallich
Former Executive, World Bank
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
Michael Steinberg
Academy Alumnus; Brown UniversityOfficers, Executives, and Trustees Emeriti
Gahl Burt
Chairman Emerita
Gerhard Casper
President and Trustee Emeritus
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
Nina von Maltzahn
Trustee Emerita; Philanthropist
Wolfgang Mayrhuber (1947-2018)
Trustee Emeritus; Former CEO, Lufthansa
Fritz Stern (1926-2016)
Trustee Emeritus; Columbia University
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