Officers
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Treasurer
Secretary
Trustees
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Stefan Asenkerschbaumer
Managing Partner, Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Robert Bosch GmbH
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Klaus Biesenbach
Director, Neue Nationalgalerie
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Manfred Bischoff
Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Mercedes-Benz Group
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Leon Botstein
President, Bard College
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Martin Brand
Blackstone Private Equity
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Gahl Burt
Chairman Emerita
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Benno Dorer
Consumer Goods CEO and Board Director, Philanthropist
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Mathias Döpfner
Chairman & CEO, Axel Springer SE
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Marina Kellen French
Philanthropist
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Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor in Chief, "The Atlantic"; moderator, "Washington Week with The Atlantic" on PBS
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Andrew Gundlach
Co-CEO / President, Bleichroeder LP
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Film Director
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Emily Haber
German Ambassador to the United States (ret.)
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Tim Höttges
Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG
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Johannes Huth
Partner and Chairman, EMEA, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR)
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Dirk Ippen
Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag
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Wolfgang Ischinger
President, Munich Security Conference Foundation Council
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Joe Kaeser
Senior Advisor, EIG; former Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy AG; Daimler Truck Holding AG
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Carol Kahn Strauss
Former Director, Leo Baeck Institute; Philanthropist
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Michael Kellen
Chairman / co-CEO Bleichroeder LP
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Michael Klein
Managing Partner, M. Klein & Company LLC
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Joseph Koerner
Professor, Harvard University
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Harold Hongju Koh
Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
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Regine Leibinger
Architect, Barkow Leibinger
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Tess Lewis
Writer and Translator; American Academy Alumna
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Kati Marton
Journalist & Author
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Julie Mehretu
Visual Artist; Academy Alumna
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Jeffrey A. Rosen
Deputy Chairman, Lazard
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Volker Schlöndorff
Filmmaker
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Christoph Schweizer
CEO, Boston Consulting Group
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Michael Sen
CEO, Fresenius Management SE
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Christine Wallich
Former World Bank Director
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Caroline A. Wamsler
Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
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Kai Wegner
Governing Mayor of Berlin (trustee ex officio)
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Maureen White
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
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Thomas Chatterton Williams
Writer, Academy Alumnus
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Andrew Wylie
The Wylie Agency
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Leah Joy Zell
President, Joy Foundation
Senior Counselors
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Richard Gaul
Deutscher Rat für Public Relations![](https://www.americanacademy.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Von-Der-Planitz-Bernhard.png)
Bernhard von der Planitz
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Victoria Scheibler
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Karen Roth
Co-Founder and Advisory Board Treasurer, KCRW Berlin gGmbHAcademic Consultant
Officers, Executives, and Trustees Emeriti
Founders
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Former US Ambassador to Germany, Diplomat, and Author; Founder
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Philanthropist; Founding Benefactor
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Co-Chairman, Arnhold & Bleichroeder Holdings; Philanthopist; Founding Benefactor
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Former US Secretary of State; Founding Chairman
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Attorney and Intelligence Officer; Founding Chairman
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Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany; Founding Chairman
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