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

Gerhard Casper
Stanford University

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

Nina von Maltzahn
Philanthropist

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
Trustees, Officers, and Executives Emeriti

John P. Birkelund (1930-2019)
Saratoga Partners

Diethart Breipohl
Former CFO, Allianz SE

Gahl Burt
Chairman Emerita

Richard Goeltz (1942-2020)
American Express

Karl M. von der Heyden
Chairman Emeritus

Wolfgang Mayrhuber (1947-2018)
Former CEO, Lufthansa

Norman Pearlstine
President Emeritus

Gary Smith
Executive Director Emeritus

Fritz Stern (1926-2016)
Columbia University
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