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ANNUAL REPORT
ABOUT THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY
The Council and Its Mission ..............................................................................................Page 1
A Message from the Chairman and the President ............................................................Page 2
POLICY PROGRAMS
2013 Calendar of Events ...................................................................................................Page 4
Policy Conferences ........................................................................................................Page 7
Eric M. Warburg Chapters .................................................................................................Page 8
Study Tours .....................................................................................................................Page 12
PROGRAMS FOR THE SUCCESSOR GENERATION
American-German Young Leaders Conference ...............................................................Page 14
Tripartite Young Leaders Conference ..............................................................................Page 17
Fellowships .....................................................................................................................Page 18
Publications .....................................................................................................................Page 21
PARTNERS IN PROMOTING TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION
John J. McCloy Awards Dinner ........................................................................................Page 22
Corporate Membership Program ....................................................................................Page 23
Co-Sponsors and Collaborating Organizations ................................................................Page 24
Foundation and Individual Support ................................................................................Page 25
Roster of Individual Members .........................................................................................Page 26
In Memoriam ...................................................................................................................Page 28
Officers, Directors, and Staff ...........................................................................................Page 29
Table of Contents
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The American Council on
Germany (ACG) is an
independent, nonpartisan
nonprofit organization
which promotes dialogue
among leaders from
business, government, and
the media in the United
States and Europe. The ACG
strengthens transatlantic
understanding and
coordinates policy
initiatives on key issues in
the post-September 11th
world.
The ACG was incorporated in 1952 in NewYork to encourage reconciliation andunderstanding following the two disastrouswars in the first half of the 20th century.Among its early leaders were John J. andEllen McCloy, General Lucius D. Clay,Christopher Emmet, Joseph Kaskell, GeorgeN. Shuster, and Eric M. Warburg. Because oftheir vision of transatlantic cooperation, theCouncil has served as a key bridge betweenGermany and the United States for morethan 60 years. In the 21st century,transatlantic cooperation on a range ofglobal economic, political, and social issuesis more important than ever. As theEuropean Union continues to evolve, theACG provides Americans with a betterunderstanding of Europe as a whole.
Through its range of programs and outreachactivities, the American Council onGermany anticipates emerging challengesfor the transatlantic relationship andencourages innovative approaches toproblem solving. The ACG supports theopen exchange of views and builds personalnetworks among leaders on both sides of theAtlantic by:
• convening regular policy discussions inNew York City and Washington, D.C.,and at its Eric M. Warburg Chaptersthroughout the United States to informindividuals about German and Europeanaffairs as well as global challenges thatEurope and the United States are facing;
• identifying leaders from the successorgeneration on both sides of the Atlantic toengage in American-German YoungLeaders Conferences and in multilateralYoung Leaders Conferences;
• organizing high-level policy conferencesand Study Tours in Europe and theUnited States on important political andeconomic issues;
• awarding fellowships to American andGerman mid-career professionals fromthe fields of agriculture, environmentalpolicy, journalism, and urban affairs,along with academia andentrepreneurship, to enable them toconduct research and collaborate withtheir professional counterparts; and
• distributing occasional papers on a rangeof issues affecting the transatlanticrelationship to more than 1,000individuals and other timely newscontent to corporate members.
The Council and Its Mission
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The past 12 months have been a tumultuoustime for the German-American partnership.The NSA spying scandal has damaged trustand highlighted a yawning gap in securityperceptions between two close allies.Germans emphasize the need to protectprivacy in the Internet age, whileAmericans, still traumatized by the 2001attacks on New York and Washington, recallthat a number of perpetrators were based inHamburg and insist on going to greatlengths to avert future terrorist attacks.
Other problems have tested transatlanticcohesion. Trade negotiations designed tointegrate the American and Europeaneconomies in the 21st century have run intoserious political opposition. Germany hasrebuffed frequent Administration pleas tostimulate its economy to help boost jobs andgrowth in order to revive Europe’s stagnanteconomy. And the quest to find effectivecommon strategies to deal with Russia, theUkraine crisis, and burgeoning problems inthe Middle East, such as Syria’s civil war, theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, and Iran’spossible acquisition of nuclear weapons, hasat times frustrated policymakers on bothsides of the Atlantic.
Despite these challenges, the United Statesand Germany recognize their continuingpartnership is vital to the health of theAtlantic alliance. Their mutual agendashows that perhaps no other pair of
countries shares such an important array ofglobal issues demanding policy cooperation.The September 2013 elections in Germanythat resulted in a new ruling coalitionbetween Chancellor Angela Merkel’sChristian Democrats and their longstandingrivals, the Social Democrats, reaffirmed thatfact. In their coalition contract, the CDUand the SPD stressed the centrality ofrelations with the United States as thecornerstone of Germany’s security andeconomic strength. Through four decades ofYoung Leader programs, our high-levelconferences with the Atlantik-Brücke, ouractivities at 19 Warburg Chapters in citiesacross the United States, our almost 40annual research and travel fellowships, andour frequent breakfast and lunch policydiscussions, we at the American Council onGermany have sought to fortify this uniqueand special partnership in ways that reflectthe changing dynamics of German-American relations in the post-Cold War era.
We believe that both countries can betterappreciate the value of this partnership bylearning from each other’s best practices.Last year, we inaugurated a fellowshipprogram that brings young Germanentrepreneurs to the United States toexchange ideas with their counterparts inSilicon Valley and other regions where high-tech enterprise has flourished. In recentyears, Berlin has emerged as a new hub forstart-ups that have sought to emulate thesuccessful achievements of Americantechnology pioneers. We also supported aconference on digital entrepreneurship inNew York with Berlin Partners to promoteinnovation in the two cities. In anotherinitiative, we collaborated with the GermanEmbassy in Washington in organizing afour-city “road show” to show howAmericans can learn from Germany throughvocational training skills. The Berufsschulesystem is a unique form of business andclassroom cooperation that trains youngworkers for rewarding careers that can last alifetime. It is considered a critical factorbehind Germany’s economic prowess, andwe believe it may serve as a useful model tohelp improve the training of America’sworkers, drawing also on the communitycollege system.
Throughout 2013 we were privileged to hosta number of prominent politicians,
A Message from the Chairman and the President
ACG President William M. Drozdiak and ACG Chairman Ambassador Robert M. Kimmitt (left to right)
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diplomats, educators, journalists, andbusiness executives who share our senseabout the importance of transatlanticdialogue. Germany’s first female DefenseMinister, Ursula von der Leyen, spoke withus last year in her previous role as Labor andSocial Affairs Minister about how Europe isslowly emerging from five years of economiccrisis despite the immense challenge offinding jobs for unemployed youths. Wehosted a dinner for Finance MinisterWolfgang Schäuble on the eve of the WorldBank and International Monetary Fund’sspring meeting so he could discuss theeurozone crisis with senior financialmanagers in the United States. We alsoheard from Klaus Regling, the ManagingDirector of the European StabilityMechanism, about how Europe hopes toconsolidate its financial sector and pave theway for an eventual banking union thatwould prevent further disruptions to theglobal economy. Other leading Germanfigures, such as Green Party leader JürgenTrittin, Handelsblatt Editor-in-Chief Hans-Jürgen Jakobs, and the head of the EuropeanInvestment Bank, Werner Hoyer, providedilluminating updates on the economicsituation in Europe.
The leaked revelations by Edward Snowdenin the National Security Agency spyingaffair caused great consternation inWashington and Berlin, which we trackedclosely with the help of leading journalistscovering the story. Claus Kleber, Germany’stop anchorman/correspondent for the ZDFtelevision channel, gave the annual GarrickUtley Lecture on Global Media Issues andexplained why Germans were so incensed byaccounts that Chancellor Merkel’s cellphone was tapped by the NSA. GeorgMascolo, the former chief editor for thenewsweekly Der Spiegel and now a leadinginvestigative reporter in Germany, gave ourmembers a fascinating account of hisinterview in Moscow with Snowden, the firstreceived by a Western journalist. StevenErlanger, the veteran foreign correspondentfor the New York Times now posted inLondon, gave his assessment about thedamage caused by spying among friends –and whether this affair could permanentlyimpair relations – from his talks withsources in Washington and around Europe.We also heard insightful analysis from a topGerman expert, Arne Schönbohm, thePresident of Cyber-Security Council
Germany, about why finding a compromiseto resolve the crisis and restore trust has sofar eluded policymakers in Washington andBerlin.
The September national elections inGermany and the two months of arduousnegotiations that stitched together a secondgrand coalition between the CDU/CSU andthe SPD – which together will control about80 percent of the Bundestag votes – wasanother subject that we followed closely in2013. In the aftermath of the Germanelections, we brought together variousexperts to explain the impact to Americanlisteners. Young Leader alumnus Eckart vonKlaeden, one of Chancellor Merkel’s toppolitical aides who recently joined Daimleras its senior executive for globalcommunications, talked about theChancellor’s looming priorities in her thirdterm in office. Other pundits, such as UlrikeGuérot of the European Council on ForeignRelations and Klaus Prömpers of ZDF,informed our members about the winnersand losers of the German vote and offeredtheir views on what the new government islikely to do.
The outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Germany,Philip Murphy, also gave his assessment ofthe elections’ political consequences as wewelcomed him and his wife, Tammy, backfrom their successful stint as America’senvoys to Germany. Ambassador Murphyoffered his views on the Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks,which were launched in July 2013 with theambitious goal of reaching a deal by the endof 2014. These negotiations are designed toimprove trade and investment flows byabolishing regulatory barriers, but have beenblocked by certain lobbies that fear the lossof jobs in their sectors. Nonetheless,Ambassador Murphy insists there is stilltremendous political will in Germany andthe United States to bring the talks to apositive conclusion, a view echoed byGermany’s Ambassador to the United States,Peter Ammon, who spoke of a “transatlanticrenaissance” if a deal can be reached.
The strong economic bonds between the twocountries were highlighted at our annualJohn J. McCloy Awards Dinner last June byour two CEO honorees, John Lechleiter ofEli Lilly and Frank Appel of Deutsche PostDHL. At a symposium the next day, Frank
Appel and ACG Board Member Alex M.Azar II, President of Lilly USA, deliveredopening remarks to put the TTIPnegotiations into context, and U.S. DeputyAssistant Secretary of State KathleenDoherty, Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel,Germany’s Deputy Chief of Mission JensHanefeld, and Bruce Stokes of the PewResearch Center unanimously agreed that aTTIP deal would strengthen the influence ofthe Western allies in the global economy andcreate more jobs and prosperity on bothsides of the Atlantic by adding severalhundred dollars a year in income gains forevery household.
In the coming year we intend to followclosely the evolution of the TTIPnegotiations, the continuing impact of theNSA affair, and top-level discussions amongChancellor Merkel, President BarackObama, and their senior advisors. There willbe other developments that affect thiscrucial partnership, notably in the energysector as Germany pursues its plans to shutdown all nuclear power plants by 2022 andshift toward renewable sources of power,while the United States seeks greater energyindependence through its shale gasrevolution. On these and other issues, ourwork at the American Council on Germanywill continue to seek ways to enhancedialogue and understanding betweenGermany and the United States, which areindisputably most important partners whosegood relations are absolutely essential to thefuture well-being of the Atlantic alliance.
March 2014
January 24 – Discussion and breakfast,hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP, withAmbassador John Kornblum, SeniorCounselor at Noerr LLP and former ACGBoard Member, on “Is ProvincialismOvertaking the Atlantic World?”
February 6 – Discussion and luncheon,hosted by Alston + Bird LLP, with Hans-Ulrich Klose, Chairman of theGerman-American Parliamentary Group andMember of the Bundestag (SPD), on“Germany and the Geopolitical Landscape inthe Coming Decade”
February 12 – Discussion and luncheon,held in cooperation with the KonradAdenauer Foundation, with Ursula von derLeyen, German Federal Minister of Laborand Social Affairs, on “Europe Emerges fromthe Crisis”
February 25 – Reception and discussion withKlaus-Dieter Maubach, Member of theBoard of Management at E.ON SE, on “TheParadigm Shift in the Energy World,” held incooperation with the German Center forResearch and Innovation as part of theTransatlantic Global Climate and EnergyAgenda Series
February 28 – Reception and discussion withWolfgang Streeck, Director of the MaxPlanck Institute for the Study of Societies inCologne and Professor of Sociology in thefaculty of Economics and Social Science at theUniversity of Cologne, on “The Crisis of theEuropean State System,” held in cooperationwith the German Research Foundation, NewSchool for Social Research, and GermanCenter for Research and Innovation
March 4 – Discussion and luncheon withMichael Werz, Senior Fellow at the Centerfor American Progress, on “A New Way toLook at Foreign Policy: Complex CrisisScenarios in the 21st Century,” held incooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston + Bird LLPas part of the Transatlantic Global AgendaSeries
March 6 – Discussion and breakfast, held incooperation with Deutsches Haus at NYU,withGabriel Glöckler, Deputy Head of theEU Institutions Division of the EuropeanCentral Bank, on “The European SovereignDebt Crisis – A View from the EuropeanCentral Bank”
March 26 – Annual Meeting of the Members,with a discussion and reception withAmbassador Peter Wittig, PermanentRepresentative of Germany to the UnitedNations
April 3 – Discussion and luncheon withMatthew Levitt, Senior Fellow at theWashington Institute for Near East Policy, on“What Europe Should Do About Hezbollah,”held in cooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston + Bird LLPas part of the Transatlantic Global AgendaSeries
April 14-19 – Study Tour on immigrationissues in Berlin
April 17 – Discussion and breakfast, hostedby Warburg Pincus LLC, with WernerHoyer, President and Chairman of the Boardof Directors of the European InvestmentBank, on “Challenges in the Current DebtCrisis – Strengthening Growth, Employment,and Innovation in the European Union”
April 19 – Discussion and luncheon, hostedby Crowell & Moring LLP, with StanislawTillich, Prime Minister of the Free State ofSaxony, on “Silicon Saxony: HarnessingHigh-Tech to Gain a Global CompetitiveEdge”
April 19 – Discussion and dinner withWolfgang Schäuble, German FederalMinister of Finance, in Washington, D.C.
April 24 – Discussion and breakfast, hostedby Hodgson Russ LLP, with KurtBiedenkopf, former Minister-President ofSaxony, on “Germany’s Role in the Future ofthe Euro”
May 7 – Discussion and luncheon withJürgen Trittin, Chairman of Alliance 90/TheGreens in the German Bundestag, on “TheEuro and Its Geostrategic Dimension in the
2013 Calendar of Events
ACG Board Member David W. Detjen of Alston +
Bird LLP and speaker Ivan Vejvoda, Vice Presi-
dent of Programs at the German Marshall Fund
of the United States (left to right)
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ACG Board Member Garrick Utley, Senior Fellow at The Levin Institute of
the State University of New York, veteran news correspondent, and
namesake of the Garrick Utley Lecture on Global Media Issues; speaker
Claus Kleber, Lead Anchor of heute journal on ZDF German Television;
and ACG President William M. Drozdiak (left to right)
Lars Haensel, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and panelists
Thorsten Alsleben, Director of Political Relations at Kienbaum, and Eckart
von Klaeden (1997 Young Leader), Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor
(left to right)
21st Century,” held in cooperation with theHeinrich Böll Foundation and hosted byCrowell & Moring LLP
May 29 – Discussion and breakfast, hostedby Hodgson Russ LLP, with Joachim Poss,Member of the German Bundestag andDeputy Chairman of the SPD ParliamentaryGroup in the Bundestag, on “The EurozoneCrisis and the German Economy”
June 6 – Discussion and breakfast withJürgen Rüttgers, former Minister-Presidentof North Rhine-Westphalia and formerGerman Federal Minister of Education,Science, Research, and Technology, on “WhatLies Ahead for Germany and Europe Afterthe 2013 Federal Elections,” held incooperation with the Konrad AdenauerFoundation and hosted by NORD/LB
June 11 – McCloy Awards Dinner honoringJohn C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., Chairman,President, and Chief Executive Officer of EliLilly and Company, and Dr. Frank Appel,Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche PostDHL
June 12 – Symposium on “A TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership: Can theUnited States and Europe Lead the Way toGlobal Economic Recovery?” with openingremarks by Dr. Frank Appel, Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Deutsche Post DHL, and ACGBoard Member Alex M. Azar II, President ofLilly USA; and with panelists AmbassadorJ.D. Bindenagel, Special Advisor to thePresident at DePaul University in Chicago;Kathleen Doherty, Deputy AssistantSecretary in the Bureau of European andEurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of
State; Jens Hanefeld, Minister and DeputyChief of Mission at the German Embassy inWashington, D.C.; ACG ChairmanAmbassador Robert M. Kimmitt; and BruceStokes, Director of Global EconomicAttitudes at the Pew Research Center,moderated by ACG President William M.Drozdiak
June 18 – Discussion and breakfast, hostedby Crowell & Moring LLP, with BerendDiekmann, Head of Division, ExternalEconomic Policy – Canada, Mexico, USA,G8/G20 in the German Federal Ministry ofEconomics and Technology, on “TheTransatlantic Partnership – CurrentDevelopments and Perspectives”
June 25-27 – Policy conference on“Building a New Transatlantic Partnershipfor Global Success” in Berlin, held incollaboration with the Atlantik-Brücke
July 21-26 – XXXV American-GermanYoung Leaders Conference on“Transatlantic Relations in a GlobalizedWorld: Creating Cooperation or Conflicts?”in Munich and Berlin
September 10 – Discussion and luncheonwith Stefan Kornelius, Foreign Editor at the
Süddeutsche Zeitung, on “The Chancellor andForeign Affairs,” held in cooperation with theAtlantik-Brücke and hosted by GoldmanSachs & Co.
September 17 – Discussion and luncheonwith Gary Sick, Senior Research Scholar andAdjunct Professor at the School ofInternational and Public Affairs at ColumbiaUniversity, on “Are Iran and AmericaDoomed to Be Permanent Enemies?” held incooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston + Bird LLPas part of the Transatlantic Global AgendaSeries
September 19 – Discussion and luncheon,hosted by Alston + Bird LLP, with IvanVejvoda, Vice President of Programs at theGerman Marshall Fund of the United States,on the 2013 Transatlantic Trends Survey
September 23 – Panel discussion andluncheon, hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP,with Astrid Dörner, U.S. Correspondent forHandelsblatt;Ulrike Guérot, Representativefor Germany and Senior Policy Fellow at theEuropean Council on Foreign Relations;Nikolaus Piper, Correspondent for theSüddeutsche Zeitung; and Klaus Prömpers,Bureau Chief – New York for ZDF GermanTelevision, on “The Impact of Germany’s2013 Federal Elections”
September 26 – Panel discussion andluncheon, hosted by Pryor Cashman LLP,with Eckart von Klaeden (1997 YoungLeader), Minister of State to the FederalChancellor;Guido Beermann, PermanentSecretary in Berlin’s Senate Department ofEconomics, Technology, and Research; and
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Speaker Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the
European Stability Mechanism
Lars Haensel, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation; speaker Ursula
von der Leyen, German Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs; and
ACG President William M. Drozdiak (left to right) (Photo courtesy of the
Konrad Adenauer Foundation)
Ambassador Peter Wittig, Permanent Representative of Germany to the
United Nations, the speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Members
Thorsten Alsleben, Director of PoliticalRelations at Kienbaum, on “After theElections: What Will Germany Do at Homeand Abroad?”
September 27 – Discussion and breakfast,hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP, withHans-Jürgen Jakobs, Editor-in-Chief ofHandelsblatt, on “The German Elections andthe Future of Europe”
October 2 – Discussion and breakfast withRalf Fuecks, President of the Heinrich BöllFoundation, on “Smart Growth – The GreenRevolution,” held in cooperation with theHeinrich Böll Foundation and hosted byReiss+Preuss LLP
October 2 – Discussion and luncheon withSoner Cagaptay, Beyer Family Fellow andDirector of the Turkish Research Program atthe Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
on “Turkey’s Middle East Policy in theAftermath of the Arab Spring,” held incooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston + Bird LLPas part of the Transatlantic Global AgendaSeries
October 8 – Discussion and luncheon withKlaus Regling, Managing Director of theEuropean Stability Mechanism, on “HowEurope Is Overcoming the Euro Crisis,” heldin cooperation with the Council for theUnited States and Italy and the French-American Foundation and hosted by Crowell& Moring LLP
October 10 – Discussion and breakfast, heldin cooperation with Deutsches Haus at NYU,with Eckart Woertz, Senior Researcher at theBarcelona Centre for International Affairs(CIDOB), on “Germany, Spain, and the EuroCrisis”
October 15-18 – Tripartite Young LeadersConference in Washington, D.C., on “TheEuropean Union in Crisis and theTransatlantic Partnership in Trouble,” heldin cooperation with the Dräger Foundationand the Center for International Relations inWarsaw and hosted by the German MarshallFund of the United States
October 31 – McCloy Lecture and luncheonwith Ambassador Philip D. Murphy, formerU.S. Ambassador to Germany, on “SameBook. New Chapter. Germany and the U.S.”
November 4 – Discussion and breakfast,hosted by Hodgson Russ LLP, with ArneSchönbohm, President of Cyber-SecurityCouncil Germany e.V., on “Cyber-Security asa Business Enabler for the German-EuropeanMarket”
November 6 – Discussion and luncheonwith Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. SabbaghSenior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies atthe Council on Foreign Relations, on “TheLong Goodbye: The United States and theMiddle East in an Age of Change,” held incooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston + Bird LLPas part of the Transatlantic Global AgendaSeries
November 13 – Garrick Utley Lecture onGlobal Media Issues with Claus Kleber, LeadAnchor of heute journal on ZDF GermanTelevision, on “Lost in Translation – TheChallenges of Reporting in a GlobalizedWorld”
November 18 – Discussion and luncheonwith Ali Aslan (2010 YL), Talk Show Host atDeutsche Welle TV, on “One Woman to RuleThem All? The German Election and ItsImpact on Europe,” held in cooperation withAmerican Friends of Bucerius and hosted byAlston + Bird LLP as part of theTransatlantic Global Agenda Series
November 19 – Discussion and breakfast,hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP, withSteven Erlanger, London Bureau Chief atthe New York Times, on “Spying on Friends:Can the United States and Europe Restore aSense of Trust?”
2013 Calendar of Events (Continued)
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Transatlantic Global Agenda
Series
The Transatlantic Global Agenda Serieswas started in 2011 by the AmericanCouncil on Germany in cooperationwith American Friends of Bucerius tobring speakers to New York City toshare their insights on global issuesthat Germany and the United States areaddressing together as transatlanticpartners. Each event is generouslyhosted by Alston + Bird LLP. In 2013,seven programs were held on topicsincluding Iran, Turkey, U.S. andMiddle Eastern relations, Sub-SaharanAfrica, Hezbollah, German and U.S.foreign policy, and the impact of theGerman elections on Europe. Thissuccessful speaker series underlines theimportance of global issues in thefuture of the German-Americanpartnership.
Kenneth I. Juster (1989 Young Leader), Managing
Director at Warburg Pincus LLC and former U.S.
Under Secretary of Commerce, and speaker
Werner Hoyer, President and Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the European Investment
Bank, in front of a portrait of ACG founder Eric
M. Warburg, namesake of the ACG’s Warburg
Chapter program, who also founded Warburg
Pincus (left to right)
ACG Board Member John J. Calaman, Senior Vice President – Investments at Stifel, Nicolaus & Com-
pany, Incorporated; Birgit Kurtz, Attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP; Hari Hariharan, Chairman and
CEO of NWI Management LP; speaker Jürgen Trittin, Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in the
German Bundestag; ACG President William M. Drozdiak; and Ambassador Busso von Alvensleben,
Consul General of Germany in New York (left to right)
November 26 – Discussion and luncheon,hosted by Alston + Bird LLP, with GeorgMascolo, Visiting Scholar at the WeatherheadCenter for International Affairs at HarvardUniversity, on “Lessons from the Summer ofSnowden – The Hard Path Back to Trust”
December 3 – Discussion and luncheon withSuzanne Ehlers, President and CEO ofPopulation Action International, on“Demographics and Economics: TheBusiness Case for Investing in Sub-SaharanAfrica,” held in cooperation with AmericanFriends of Bucerius and hosted by Alston +Bird LLP as part of the Transatlantic GlobalAgenda Series
December 4 – Discussion and breakfast,hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP, withJoseph Quinlan, Senior Fellow at the Paul H.Nitze School of Advanced InternationalStudies at Johns Hopkins University andSenior Fellow at the German Marshall Fundof the United States in Brussels, on “TheTransatlantic Partnership: Coming Togetheror Drifting Apart?”
December 4-6 – TransatlanticEntrepreneur Conference on “What 2014Will Bring: Investing, Innovating, andCollaborating in Two Global Hubs – NewYork and Berlin,” held in cooperation withNew York International and Berlin Partners
December 6 – Discussion and breakfast,hosted by Sidley Austin LLP, with BjörnBöhning, Head of the Senate Chancellery ofBerlin, on “Berlin – Creative and InnovativeMetropolis and Up-and-Coming Start-UpHub”
December 8-13 – Study Tour on climateand energy issues in Berlin
December 10 – Discussion and breakfastwith Friedrich Merz, Chairman of theAtlantik-Brücke and Partner at Mayer Brown,on “Crossroads in Berlin: From HandygateHeadaches to New GovernmentNegotiations,” in cooperation with theAtlantik-Brücke and hosted by Booz &Company
December 17 – Discussion and luncheon,hosted by Sidley Austin LLP, withAmbassador Peter Ammon, GermanAmbassador to the United States, on “Towarda Transatlantic Renaissance”
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Policy Conferences
“Building a New Transatlantic Partnership for Global Success”
From June 25 to 27, 2013, theAmerican Council on Germanyand the Atlantik-Brücke joinedtogether for a conference on“Building a New TransatlanticPartnership for Global Success.”The conference coincided with the50th anniversary of President JohnF. Kennedy’s historic visit toBerlin in 1963. This eventcelebrated the past, present, andfuture of the German-Americanpartnership as signified by therenewed cooperation between theACG and the A-B.
During the opening reception,German Federal Minister ofFinance Wolfgang Schäubledelivered the keynote address onthe significance of the transatlanticpartnership. Former World BankGroup President Ambassador
Robert Zoellick, a former ACG Board Member, spoke at the opening dinner on theimportance of Kennedy’s visit to Berlin.
The next day, the conference was attended by more than 200 Americans and Germansas discussions covered a myriad of topics, such as the eurozone crisis, the TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the current state of the U.S. Congress, andGermany’s transition to renewable energies. Speakers included Robert F. Cekuta,Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the U.S.State Department; Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger (1978 Young Leader), GlobalHead of Government Affairs at Allianz SE and Chairman of the Munich SecurityConference; and former Congressmen Scott Klug (1986 McCloy Fellow in Journalism),James Kolbe, and Robert Wexler.
Transatlantic Entrepreneur Conference
From December 4 to 6, 2013, the American Council on Germany partnered with NewYork International and Berlin Partners to host a conference for young entrepreneursfrom Germany and New York. The Transatlantic Entrepreneur Conference – “What2014 Will Bring: Investing, Innovating, and Collaborating in Two Global Hubs – NewYork and Berlin” – brought together individuals from the tech sector, policymaking,and green industries in New York City to discuss topics such as the entrepreneurialspirit of Berlin, the future of technology, and expanding small start-ups intotransatlantic companies. Speakers included Nicole Glaros, Managing Director of NewYork Tech Stars; Holger Luedorf, Head of Business Development at Foursquare;Marty Markowitz, former Brooklyn Borough President; Frederik Pferdt, GlobalProgram Manager for Innovation and Creativity at Google Inc.; and CorneliaYzer, Senator for Economics, Technology, and Research for the City Government ofBerlin. Participants also had the opportunity to visit start-ups and venture-capitalfirms such as Etsy, KISI, and First Mark Capital.
Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of
the German Bundesbank; Bruce Stokes, Director of
Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research
Center; Katja Gloger (1992 Young Leader), Editor-at-
Large at Stern magazine; Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco,
President and CEO of GE Europe and CEO of GE
Germany; and former ACG Board Member Ambassa-
dor Robert Zoellick, former President of the World
Bank Group (left to right) (Photo courtesy of the
Atlantik-Brücke (Raum II/Jan Zappner))
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The Eric M. Warburg Chapters werelaunched in 1992 to promote transatlanticdialogue across the United States. TheChapters are named after ACG founder andlongtime Treasurer Eric M. Warburg. Thisunique network of 19 Chapters provides ACGmembers and local audiences with a dynamicforum to discuss economic, political, andsocial issues that are important to German-American and wider transatlantic relations.With the United States’ so-called pivot toAsia, it is more important than ever tostrengthen dialogue focused on thetransatlantic partnership, as Europe remains aclose partner for political, economic, andsocial policy.
The Warburg Chapters programmed morethan 70 events around the U.S. in 2013. Theseprograms focused on many pressing topics,including the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership (TTIP), the NSArevelations and their implications for theGerman-American partnership, global foodsecurity, immigration policy, climate changeand energy, the vocational training system inGermany, entrepreneurship in Germany, andGerman domestic policy.
Many prominent figures spoke at theChapters, including Ambassador PeterAmmon, German Ambassador to the UnitedStates; Ali Aslan (2010 Young Leader), TalkShow Host for Deutsche Welle TV; BerndFischer, Consul General of Germany in LosAngeles; Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger,Foreign Editor at Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung; Katja Gloger (1992 YL), Editor-at-Large at Stern magazine; Ulrike Guérot, thenSenior Policy Fellow and Representative forGermany at the European Council on Foreign
Relations; Hans-Ulrich Klose, thenChairman of the German-AmericanParliamentary Group at the GermanBundestag; Hannelore Kraft, Prime Ministerof the State of North Rhine-Westphalia;Manfred Lahnstein, Executive Chair of theZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius;Harald Leibrecht, then Coordinator ofTransatlantic Cooperation at the GermanFederal Foreign Office; and Christoph vonMarshall (1999 Kellen Fellow), ChiefDiplomatic Correspondent at Der Tagesspiegel.
ACG President William M. Drozdiak visitedthe Chapters in Denver and Phoenix to speakon the current state of transatlantic relationsand the TTIP. Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel,then Special Advisor to the President forInternational and Global Chicago Affairs atDePaul University, also toured manyChapters to discuss the importance of theTTIP for the United States and Germany.
ACG Study Tour participants spoke beforemany Chapters on the topics of immigrationand climate and energy issues. Theirprofessional knowledge coupled withinformation learned while on ACG StudyTours allowed Evelyn Cruz, Professor ofImmigration Law, Asylum, andComprehensive Law Practice at the SandraDay O’Connor College of Law, and BruceLeimsidor, Professor of Asylum Law at Ca’Foscari University in Venice, Italy, to speakon the importance of immigration policy forEurope and the United States. Tracey Grose,Strategic Advisor for Next 10 and Co-Chair ofthe Cleantech Industry Group for theGerman American Business Association, andShane Owl-Greason, Co-Founder of GeorgiaSolar Utilities, Inc., shared their expertise onrenewable and clean energy, as well asdomestic energy security.
The Chapters also held a number of uniqueprograms in 2013. In Boston, an event co-sponsored with the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies at HarvardUniversity looked into the visual aspects ofocean exploration in film. The San DiegoChapter, in partnership with the GermanConsulate in Los Angeles, supported theAlbert Einstein Day of Innovations at AlbertEinstein Middle School. This programbrought German companies into theclassroom to work on innovative scienceexperiments with students. In addition, theSt. Louis Chapter co-sponsored a panel
discussion on the legacy of German art andculture in St. Louis with the Mildred LaneKemper Art Museum.
The programs at the Warburg Chapterscontinue to expand and attract largeraudiences. The need for a growingtransatlantic network around the country ismore important than ever as we confront themost pressing global issues of the day.
2013 Calendar of Warburg
Chapter Events
February 11 – Minneapolis/St. PaulWarburg Chapter event with HaraldLeibrecht, Coordinator of TransatlanticCooperation at the German Foreign Office,on “The Dual Vocational Training System inGermany,” co-sponsored with the GermanAmerican Chamber of Commerce of theMidwest, Minnesota Chapter
February 15-16 – Boston Warburg Chaptersupport of the Annual German Conferenceat Harvard University
Eric M. Warburg ChaptersAlexandria, Virginia | Atlanta, Georgia | Boca Raton, Florida | Boston, Massachusetts | Charlotte, North Carolina | Chicago, Illinois | Dallas, Texas | Denver,
Colorado | Indianapolis, Indiana | Madison, Wisconsin | Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota | Nashville, Tennessee | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Phoenix, Arizona
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | St. Louis, Missouri | San Diego, California | San Francisco, California | Seattle, Washington
Dallas Warburg Chapter Director Hansjörg
Heppe (2006 Young Leader), International
Partner at Locke Lord LLP, with speaker
Katja Gloger (1992 YL), Editor-at-Large at Stern
magazine
Skills Initiative Road Show
Through its network of Eric M.Warburg Chapters, the AmericanCouncil on Germany partnered withthe German Embassy to bring aprogram on job skills to Atlanta,Charlotte, Indianapolis, andPittsburgh. The Skills Initiative RoadShow brought experts from Germanyto exchange best practices with thesecommunities. The speakers introducedGermany’s successful dual-trackeducational system to local educatorsfrom vocational schools, trainees, andcompany trainers. The educationalsystem in Germany has resulted in ahighly skilled, specialized workforcethat has buoyed the German economyeven amid the eurozone crisis. TheACG hopes to continue supporting thisinitiative further through the Chapternetwork.
March 5 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventas part of The Halle Foundation SpeakerSeries with Shane Owl-Greason, Co-Founder of Georgia Solar Utilities, Inc.,co-sponsored with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S.
March 14 – San Diego Warburg Chapterevent – Albert Einstein Day ofInnovations: “The Roots of Innovations,or How the Success Started” – co-sponsored with Bernd Fischer, GermanConsul General of Los Angeles, andHonorary Consul General in San DiegoStephan Hollmann
March 14 – San Diego Warburg Chapterevent with Bernd Fischer, German ConsulGeneral of Los Angeles; Honorary ConsulGeneral in San Diego Stephan Hollmann;and Klaus M. Brisch, Co-Director of theCologne office of BridgehouseLaw, on“Workforce & Skill Initiative SanDiego/Tijuana for Regional EconomicDevelopment,” sponsored byBridgehouseLaw
March 18 – Phoenix ACG alumni breakfastwith Helena Kane Finn, Vice President andDirector of Programs at the AmericanCouncil on Germany
April 9 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event withTracey Grose, Strategic Advisor for Next 10and Co-Chair of the Cleantech IndustryGroup for the German American BusinessAssociation, on “The Energiewende:Evidence of the Energy Transformation fromGermany and the U.S.,” co-sponsored withLocke Lord LLP
April 10 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter eventwith Tracey Grose, expert on the cleanenergy economy, innovation systems, andgrowing global linkages; Gregg PascalZachary (1997 McCloy Fellow inJournalism), Professor of Practice at theWalter Cronkite School of Journalism andMass Communication; and Ed Finn,Director of the Center for Science and theImagination at Arizona State University, on“Global Networks of Innovation and SiliconValley’s Ties to the Future” at Arizona StateUniversity
April 16 – Chicago Warburg Chapter eventwith Kurt Biedenkopf, former Governor ofSaxony, on “European Difficulties inCyprus,” co-sponsored with Dentons USLLP and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
April 16 – Dallas Warburg Chapter eventwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, SpecialAdvisor to the President for Internationaland Global Chicago Affairs at DePaulUniversity, on “The Time Is Ripe for theTransatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership,” co-sponsored with LockeLord LLP
April 17 – Boston Warburg Chapter eventwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on “TheTime Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership,” co-sponsored withthe Goethe-Institut Boston and the GermanConsulate General of Boston
April 18 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, aspart of a Conversations on EuropeVideoconference on “Sharing the Wealth:An EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement,” co-sponsored with the University of PittsburghEuropean Union Center of Excellence andEuropean Studies Center
April 19 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on“Quo Vadis Germania – Whither Germany?Making of a Nation and German Leadershipin the 21st Century,” co-sponsored with theWorld Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
April 22 – Alexandria Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on“Speaking on the Peacekeeping Role of theBundeswehr,” co-sponsored with the GeorgeC. Marshall International Center
April 23 – Nashville Warburg Chapter eventwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on “TheTime Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership”
April 23 – San Francisco Warburg Chapterevent with Ulrike Guérot, Senior PolicyFellow and Representative for Germany atthe European Council on Foreign Relations,on “Germany and the Crisis of Europe:Democracy Improvement and Developmentin the European Union,” co-sponsored withthe Goethe-Institut San Francisco
April 24 – San Diego Warburg Chapter eventwith Ulrike Guérot on “Germany inEurope”
April 25 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on “TheTime Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership,” co-sponsored with
the German American Chamber ofCommerce of the Southern U.S.
April 26 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter eventwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on “TheTime Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership,” co-sponsored withDavidson College
April 29 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventwith Hans-Ulrich Klose, Chairman of theGerman-American Parliamentary Group atthe German Bundestag, on “Pivot to Reality– New Strategies for the West,” co-sponsoredwith the German American Chamber ofCommerce of the Southern U.S.
May 1 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event withHans-Ulrich Klose on “Pivot to Reality –New Strategies for the West,” co-sponsoredwith Locke Lord LLP
May 2 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter eventwith Hans-Ulrich Klose on “Pivot toReality – New Strategies for the West,” co-sponsored with the George C. MarshallInternational Center
May 3 – Nashville Warburg Chapter eventwith Hans-Ulrich Klose on “Pivot toReality – New Strategies for the West”
May 7 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter eventwith Mark Pringle, Vice-President ofSiemens Energy, Inc., with an introductionby Tony Weiss, President of CentralPiedmont Community College, on“America’s Energy Future and the Role ofCharlotte USA as ‘America’s New EnergyCapital,’ ” co-sponsored with the GermanAmerican Chamber of Commerce of theSouth and Parker Poe
May 13 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventwith Evelyn Cruz, Professor of ImmigrationLaw, Asylum, and Comprehensive LawPractice at the Sandra Day O’ConnorCollege of Law, on “Dual Citizenship andGlobalization: Challenges andOpportunities,” co-sponsored with theGerman American Chamber of Commerce ofthe Southern U.S.
May 14 – Denver Warburg Chapter eventwith William M. Drozdiak, President of theAmerican Council on Germany, on “TheDeepening Crisis in Europe and Its Impacton the United States”
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May 15 – Boston Warburg Chapter eventwith Franziska Torma, John F. KennedyMemorial Fellow at the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies at HarvardUniversity, on “The Life Aquatic. On VisualAspects of Ocean Exploration,” co-sponsoredwith the Minda de Gunzburg Center forEuropean Studies
May 15 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter eventwith William M. Drozdiak
May 16 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter eventwith Philipp S. Kruger, CEO of exploristInc., on “Transatlantic Digital Companies: IsBerlin the Next Silicon Valley?”
May 17 – Keynote address by William M.Drozdiak before the German AmericanChamber of Commerce Gala in Minneapolis
May 30 – San Francisco Warburg Chapterevent withHannelore Kraft, Prime Ministerof the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, co-sponsored with Consul General Peter Rothenand the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
June 3 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter eventwith Bruce Leimsidor, Professor of AsylumLaw at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy,on “Immigration and Asylum in Europe andin the U.S.: Similarities, Differences, andWhat We Can Learn from Each Other,” incollaboration with Professor Evelyn Cruz atArizona State University
June 4 – Denver Warburg Chapter event withBernd Fischer, Consul General of Germanyin Los Angeles, on “Developments in Europewith an Impact for Colorado,” co-sponsoredwith the German American Chamber ofCommerce of the Midwest, Inc.
June 5 – Philadelphia Warburg Chapter eventwith Bruce Leimsidor on “Immigration andIntegration in Germany and the EuropeanUnion: Recent Trends,” in collaboration withthe German American Chamber ofCommerce, Philadelphia
August 6 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventwith Tracey Grose, Strategic Advisor forNext 10 and Co-Chair of the CleantechIndustry Group for the German AmericanBusiness Association, on “The Energiewende:Evidence of the Energy Transformation fromGermany and the U.S.,” co-sponsored withLocke Lord LLP
August 23 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter
event with Benjamin Rohé (2011 YoungLeader), Founder and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Berlin-based Make a Startup AngelFund (MAS), on “Venture Capital in Europe– The Highs and Lows and Why Now?”
September 3 – Indianapolis WarburgChapter event with David B. Audretsch,Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chairof Economic Development at IndianaUniversity, on “Creating an EntrepreneurialGermany,” co-sponsored with the ConsulateGeneral of Germany in Chicago and FrostBrown Todd LLC
September 4 – Chicago special dinner withHans-Ulrich Klose, Chairman of theGerman-American Parliamentary Group inthe German Bundestag, hosted byAmbassador J.D. Bindenagel
September 5 – Chicago Warburg Chapterevent with Hans-Ulrich Klose on “Pivot toReality – New Strategies for the West,” hostedby Baker & McKenzie LLP
September 6 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapterevent with Hans-Ulrich Klose on “Pivot toReality – New Strategies for the West,” co-sponsored with the World Affairs Council ofPittsburgh
September 7 – St. Louis Warburg Chapterevent on “The Legacy of German Art andCulture in St. Louis” at the Saint LouisMuseum of Art, held in cooperation with theMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
September 9 – Boston Warburg Chapterevent with Hans-Ulrich Klose on “Pivot toReality – New Strategies for the West,” co-sponsored with the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies at HarvardUniversity
September 10 – Dallas Warburg Chapterevent with Cornelia Doemer, Head of theDepartment of Events of the StateRepresentation of Rhineland-Palatinate, on“500 Years After the Reformation: IsGermany Still a Christian Country?”
September 18 – Minneapolis/St. PaulWarburg Chapter event with AmbassadorJ.D. Bindenagel, Special Advisor to thePresident for International and GlobalChicago Affairs at DePaul University, on“The Time Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership”
September 19 – Dallas Warburg Chapterevent with Klaus-Jochen Gühlcke, ConsulGeneral of Germany in Houston, on“Germany Before the Elections”
September 19 – Madison Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on“The Time Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership”
September 24 – Denver Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on“The Time Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership”
September 26 – San Diego Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on“The Time Is Ripe for the Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership”
October 2 – Nashville Warburg Chapterevent with Eckart Woertz, Senior Researcherat the Barcelona Centre for InternationalAffairs (CIDOB), on “The Global FoodCrisis, Geopolitics, and the Middle East”
October 3-5 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapterevents with Eckart Woertz on “The GlobalFood Crisis, Geopolitics, and the MiddleEast,” held in cooperation with the WorldAffairs Council of Pittsburgh
October 5-6 – San Diego Warburg Chaptersponsorship of the San Diego GermanCurrents Film Festival at the Museum ofPhotographic Arts
October 7 – Minneapolis/St. Paul WarburgChapter event with Eckart Woertz
October 7 – Philadelphia Warburg Chapterevent with Ambassador Peter Ammon,German Ambassador to the United States, incooperation with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce, Philadelphia
October 15 – Dallas Warburg Chapter eventwith Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, ForeignEditor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on“Germany, the Reluctant Hegemon”
October 16 – Denver Warburg Chapter eventwith Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger on “TheGerman Election Results: Domestic andInternational Perspectives”
October 16 – Nashville Warburg Chapterevent with Erik Kirschbaum, ForeignCorrespondent for Reuters, on “Rocking theWall”
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October 17 – Madison Warburg Chapterevent with Erik Kirschbaum on “Rockingthe Wall”
October 18 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventwith Manfred Lahnstein, Executive Chair ofthe ZEIT-Foundation Ebelin und GerdBucerius, hosted by the German AmericanChamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S.
October 18 – Boston Warburg Chapter eventwith Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, ForeignEditor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
October 18 – Charlotte Warburg Chapterevent with Erik Kirschbaum on “Rockingthe Wall”
October 21 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter eventwith Erik Kirschbaum on “Rocking theWall”
October 22-24 – Phoenix Warburg Chapterevents with Erik Kirschbaum on “Rockingthe Wall”
October 22 – San Diego Warburg ChapterBay Boat Cruise, in cooperation with theConsulate General of Germany, the GermanHonorary Consul, the German American SanDiego Foundation, the San Diego GermanAmerican Chamber of Commerce California,and the San Diego World Trade Center
October 24 – Minneapolis/St. Paul WarburgChapter event with Erik Kirschbaum on“Rocking the Wall”
November 13 – Atlanta Warburg Chaptercooperation with the German Embassy on theSkills Initiative Road Show, hosted by theGerman American Chamber of Commerce ofthe Southern U.S.
November 14 – Charlotte Warburg Chaptercooperation with the German Embassy on theSkills Initiative Road Show
November 18 – Chicago Warburg Chapterevent withKatja Gloger (1992 YL), Editor-at-Large at Stern magazine, on “Tough Times:Edward Snowden, the NSA, and theChallenges for the TransatlanticRelationship”
November 18 – Indianapolis WarburgChapter cooperation with the GermanEmbassy on the Skills Initiative Road Show
November 19 – Dallas Warburg Chapterevent with Katja Gloger on “Tough Times:Edward Snowden, the NSA, and theChallenges for the TransatlanticRelationship”
November 19 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chaptercooperation with the German Embassy on theSkills Initiative Road Show
November 19 – San Francisco WarburgChapter event withMichael Goering, CEOof the ZEIT Foundation, on “The Search forNew Global Leaders – Some Examples fromGermany,” hosted by Pillsbury WinthropShaw Pittman LLP
November 20 – Denver Warburg Chapterevent withKatja Gloger on “Tough Times:Edward Snowden, the NSA, and theChallenges for the TransatlanticRelationship”
November 21 – Boca Raton WarburgChapter event with Ali Aslan (2010 YL), TalkShow Host at Deutsche Welle TV, on “OneWoman to Rule Them All? The GermanElection and Its Impact on Europe”
November 22 – Boston Warburg Chapterevent withKatja Gloger on “Tough Times:Edward Snowden, the NSA, and theChallenges for the TransatlanticRelationship,” in cooperation with theGoethe-Institut Boston
December 17 – Charlotte Warburg Chapterevent with Christoph von Marshall (1999Kellen Fellow), Chief DiplomaticCorrespondent at Der Tagesspiegel, on “TheImpact of the NSA Revelations on U.S. SoftPower in Germany: Are We Losing the NextGeneration?”
Alexandria, VirginiaDale Medearis
Atlanta, GeorgiaMartina Stellmaszek
Boca Raton, FloridaCatherine S. Meschievitz
Boston, MassachusettsMarc Redlich
Charlotte, North CarolinaAlbert E. Guarnieri
Chicago, IllinoisJohn D. Gatto
Dallas, TexasHansjörg HeppeNicola Bremer
Denver, ColoradoWilliam M. BassBernhard Juergen Bleise
Indianapolis, IndianaSven Schumacher
Madison, WisconsinElizabeth E. Covington
Minneapolis/St. Paul,Minnesota
R. Donald KeysserChrista Tiefenbacher-Hudson
Nashville, TennesseeDouglas Berry
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
Harry Carl Schaub
Phoenix, ArizonaHelge Jordan
Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaDavid A. Murdoch
St. Louis, MissouriUlrike K. Schlafly
San Diego, CaliforniaEberhard H. Röhm
San Francisco, CaliforniaJohannes M. BiermannBettina Warburg-Johnson
Seattle, WashingtonBrian K. Klein
Warburg Chapter Leadership
The ACG is grateful to the below Warburg Chapter Directors for dedicatingtheir time and efforts to successful programming around the country:
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The ACG organized two Study Tours toBerlin in 2013 on immigration and onclimate and energy issues. The Study Tourprogram is designed to create dialogue andan ongoing professional network betweenAmerican and German experts. Each StudyTour is intended to create a two-wayexchange of ideas for best practices andpolicies on the political and sociallandscapes in both countries relating to thetopics of immigration and climate andenergy, respectively. This program isgenerously supported by the GermanFederal Ministry of Economics and Energythrough its European Recovery Program tosupport transatlantic dialogue.
Both Study Tours began with an openingdinner, followed by four intensive days ofmeetings and briefings with Germangovernment officials, political leaders,businesspeople, academics, journalists,nongovernmental organizations, and thinktanks to discuss and share on each topic.Each evening, an official dinner gave theAmerican participants the opportunity tohear from distinguished German politicianson German and EU policy, as well as expertsin the field of either immigration or climateand energy.
The Study Tour on immigration took placefrom April 14 to 19. The delegation exploredimmigration policy in Germany and theEuropean Union, including the difficultsituation with political refugees;multiculturalism in Germany and its
importance to future generations; and theeconomic factors for migrant and immigrantworkers in Europe. The delegation in turnshared their experiences from the UnitedStates on social and economic immigrationpolicy, as well as the legacy ofmulticulturalism.
Karsten D. Voigt, former BundestagMember and Coordinator of German-American Cooperation at the GermanFederal Foreign Office, opened the StudyTour. Other prominent figures, includingHans-Ulrich Klose, then Chairman of theGerman-American Parliamentary Group,and Joschka Fischer, former ForeignMinister and Vice-Chancellor, briefed thegroup. The delegation on immigration alsoheard from Bundestag Members DietmarNietan, Omid Nouripour, Cem Özdemir(2001 Young Leader), and Ruprecht Polenz.They met with Ali Aslan (2010 YL), TVHost at Deutsche Welle; Berend Diekmann,Head of the U.S. and Foreign Trade Divisionat the Federal Ministry of Economics andTechnology; and Ambassador HeinrichKreft, Director for Public Diplomacy andDialogue Among Civilizations. The groupwas treated to a special briefing at the U.S.Embassy with Ambassador Philip D.Murphy, as well as a walking tour throughthe Berlin borough of Wedding with ÖzcanMutlu, a local Berlin politician for Alliance90/The Greens who was recently voted intothe Bundestag. The delegates also hadmeetings at the American Jewish CommitteeBerlin Office, the Federal Chancellery, the
Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministryof the Interior, the German Marshall Fundof the United States, the Heinrich BöllFoundation, the Immigration Department ofthe Berlin Police for Kreuzberg, and theMercator Foundation.
The Study Tour on climate and energy tookplace from December 8 to 13. The Americandelegation left Berlin with a more profoundunderstanding of the German Energiewendeand surrounding policies on climate changeand energy practices in Germany. AsGermany moves forward to shut downnuclear power plants by 2022, the countryhas put tremendous resources intorenewable and green energy developmentand implementation.
Speakers during the Study Tour on climateand energy issues included BundestagMembersMaria Flachsbarth, energy expertand member of the Government CoalitionTask Force on Energy, and Norbert Röttgen,former Minister of the Environment andmember of the Foreign RelationsCommittee. The delegation was briefed atother ministries by experts such as DiethardMager, Deputy Director General forRenewable Energy at the Federal Ministry ofEconomics and Energy; Susanne Parlasca,Head of the Energy Policy Unit at theFederal Chancellery; and Hinrich Thölken,Head of the Division for Climate andEnvironmental Foreign Policy, andSustainable Economy, at the Ministry ofForeign Affairs. The delegation also heardfrom Nicola Brüning, Head Representativeof BMW’s office in Berlin; R. AndreasKraemer, Director and CEO of EcologicInstitute; and Andreas Nauen, CEO ofRepower Systems SE. John Melville,Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S.Embassy, briefed the delegation on U.S.policy in Germany. They also met withexperts at BASF SE’s Berlin office, theInstitute for Advanced SustainabilityStudies e.V., the Hasso-Plattner-Institut, thePotsdam Institute of Climate ImpactResearch (PIK), the European ClimateFoundation, and the Wuppertal Institute forClimate, Environment, and Energy.
Study Tour participants at the German Federal Chancellery (Photo courtesy of Dan Boyce)
Study Tours
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2013 Study Tour Participants
Study Tour on Immigration
Judith Bernstein-BakerExecutive DirectorHIAS Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spencer BoyerPublic Policy ScholarWoodrow Wilson International Center forScholars
Washington, D.C.
Muzaffar ChishtiDirectorMigration Policy Institute’s office at theNYU School of Law
New York, New York
Kelley Goulette Congressional StafferU.S. Senate Burlington, Vermont
Kirmanj GundiProfessor, Department of EducationAdministration
College of Education at Tennessee StateUniversity
Freelance Journalist Nashville, Tennessee
Jennifer KeiperMidwest CorrespondentFox News Radio Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Terry ManuelSenior Deportation OfficerDepartment of HomelandSecurity/Immigration and CustomsEnforcement
Houston, Texas
Hans Christopher MeyerAttorneyMeyer Law OfficeDenver, Colorado
Eva A. MillonaExecutive DirectorMassachusetts Immigrant and RefugeeAdvocacy Coalition (MIRA)
Boston, Massachusetts
Bradley W. NewboltAttorney, Mediator, Arbitrator, and LitigatorBradley W. Newbolt Law FirmMinneapolis, Minnesota
Giang NguyenReporterWIBW-TV Topeka, Kansas
Douglas RayesJudgeSuperior Court of Arizona in MaricopaCounty
Phoenix, Arizona
Terri A. SimmonsPartnerArnall Golden Gregory LLP Atlanta, Georgia
Darry A. SragowPartnerSNR Denton US LLP Los Angeles, California
Study Tour on Climate and Energy Issues
Dan BoyceCapitol Bureau ChiefMontana Public Radio Helena, Montana
William EgerEnergy ManagerCity of Alexandria, Virginia
Robert J. FreitasPresidentSundial Energy, Inc. Tucson, Arizona
John HannahJudgeSuperior Court of Arizona in MaricopaCounty
Phoenix, Arizona
Tom HawleyTransportation ReporterKSNV-TV/Channel 3 Las Vegas, Nevada
Colin ManasseCEOuTree Madrid, Spain
Gregg MastPresident and CEOEarthtech Energy Minneapolis, Minnesota
Janet MilkmanExecutive DirectorDelaware Valley Green Building Council Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Reid RutherfordCEOPhoton Finance, LLCMountain View, California
Senator Steve SoutherlandSenate Deputy SpeakerChairman of the Energy, Agriculture, andNatural Resources Committee
Tennessee General AssemblyNashville, Tennessee
Edward SternExecutive DirectorColorado Solar Energy IndustriesAssociation
Denver, Colorado
Heidi VanGenderenDirector of the Office of Public EngagementU.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C.
Christopher WilliamsVermont Organizer Citizens Awareness Network Hancock, Vermont
Emily YatesProgram Officer, Urban and Regional Policy German Marshall Fund of the United States Washington, D.C.
Study Tour participants at the U.S. Embassy in
Berlin (Photo courtesy of Giang Nguyen)
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The American Council on Germany bringstogether about 50 promising youngprofessionals from the United States andGermany each year to discuss pressingpolitical, economic, and social issues on thetransatlantic agenda and to promotenetworking among these future leaders.Since 1973, the American-German YoungLeaders Conferences have been buildingunderstanding, new perspectives, andultimately strong bonds among the delegatesand thus are a cornerstone of the Council’smission to promote transatlantic relations inthe long term as well as the short term.
From July 21 to 26, 2013 – at a time whenunfolding international crises added fuel todebates – Young Leaders came together inBerlin to consider “Transatlantic Relationsin a Globalized World: Creating Cooperationor Conflicts?” The delegates included seniorstaffers in the State Department, the U.S.Army, the Bundestag, and the GermanChancellery; executives from companiessuch as AT&T, Lilly, and Mercedes-Benz, aswell as law firms; researchers; journalists;academics; and entrepreneurs.
The conference featured plenary sessions,working groups, and discussions with arange of officials and experts with uniqueperspectives on the transatlanticrelationship. In addition, the Americandelegation took part in an orientation inMunich the weekend before the conference.
Speakers at the conference included JörgAsmussen, Member of the Executive Boardof the European Central Bank; GünterHeiss, Coordinator of Federal IntelligenceServices; Eckart von Klaeden (1997 YoungLeader), then Minister of State to theFederal Chancellor; Harald Leibrecht, thenCoordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation in
the Federal Foreign Office; Philipp Rösler,then Vice-Chancellor and Federal Ministerof Economics and Technology; BundestagMember Norbert Röttgen, former Ministerof the Environment, Nature Conservation,and Nuclear Safety; Wolfgang Schäuble,Minister of Finance; Klaus Töpfer, formerMinister of the Environment, NatureConservation, and Nuclear Safety;Ambassador Hans-Georg Wieck, formerGerman Ambassador to Iran and Chairmanof the Advisory Council of IntelligenceRound Table; and General Volker Wieker,Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for theBundeswehr. Delegates also met withmembers of four of the major Germanpolitical parties to discuss their outlooks onthe federal elections.
The 2013 conference zoomed in on thefollowing themes:
• “Identity Politics: What Makes anAmerican or a German?”;
• “Values Proposition: What Unifies andDifferentiates a TransatlanticRelationship?”;
• “Living Within Our Means:Repercussions of the Global Meltdown”;
• “Policy Zombies: The Issues That SimplyWill Not Die”;
• “The Internet: Big Data, BigGovernment, Big Opportunities”; and
• “Trans-Atlantic 2025: The World as WeWant It.”
The delegates join a growing list of alumniwho have gone on to become leadingpolicymakers and opinion shapers in thetransatlantic relationship, underscoring themultiplier effect inherent in the program.
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The 2013 American-German Young Leaders at the German Reichstag
2013 Young Leaders Valerie E. Meyers, Toxicol-
ogist at NASA Johnson Space Center, and
Bogdan Mitna, Manager at Daimler AG
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2013 AMERICAN DELEGATION
Samara A. Barend Vice President and P3 Development
Director AECOM Capital
Oni K. Blair Special Assistant to the U.S. Deputy
Secretary of State U.S. Department of State
Margaret L. Boles Director, Federal Media Relations and
Public Affairs AT&T Services, Inc.
Ashley H. Chan Director of Government Affairs and
Business Development Alcoa
Nina Curley Editor-in-Chief Wamda
Arash Farin Vice President, Investment Banking The Sage Group
Adrianne B. George Branch Chief Office of the Director of National
Intelligence
Guillermo J. Godoy Manager, Public Policy Volkswagen Group of America
Tauren W. Grant Fontana PDC Operations Manager Mercedes-Benz USA
Benjamin T. Grover Applications, Simulations, and Quality
Division Leader/IT Director Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Andrew L. Hoffman Program Element Monitor, Office of the
Secretary of the Air Force U.S. Air Force
Daniel Hutchinson Assistant Professor of History Belmont Abbey College
Lynn M. Itagaki Assistant Professor of English and Women’s
Studies The Ohio State University
James A. Johnson Councilmember City of Long Beach, California
Glenn B. Kates Manager of Digital Media Initiatives Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Janet W. Kelly Senior Federal Government Relations
Representative Puget Sound Energy
Jay Khosla Policy Director and Chief Health Counsel U.S. Senate Finance Committee
W. Walton Liles Director Patomak Global Partners
Abigail T. Linnington Special Assistant, Office of the Chief of Staff
of the Army U.S. Army
Valerie E. Meyers Toxicologist NASA Johnson Space Center
Elad Roisman Counsel to Commissioner Daniel Gallagher U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Justin Rzepka Vice President, Government Relations National Cable Telecommunications
Association
Kriss Stanley Counsel, Corporate Public Policy Deutsche Post DHL
Rohit Wanchoo Principal Grove International Partners Co-Founder and Director Give Directly
Yuming Zou Executive Director JPMorgan Chase Bank (China)
2013 GERMAN DELEGATION
Ines Alpert Deputy Head of Unit – Financial Markets
Policy and Law Federal Chancellery
Ferda Ataman Project Manager and Chief Editor Mediaservice Migration
Helena Beck Market Access Strategy Manager – Diabetes Lilly Deutschland GmbH
Thomas Biegi Team Lead, Communications Pfizer Deutschland GmbH
Alice Graefin von Buquoy Sales Manager – Theatrical and Acquisition
Manager Global Screen GmbH
Alexander H. Cordes Director and Lawyer Hering Schuppener Consulting
Manuela G. Czowalla Corporate Secretary OSK Marketing & Communications Inc. General Counsel OSK GmbH
Yasmin Ghavami Head of Aftersales Strategy BMW Group
Marion D. Hombach Senior Advisor in Directorate-General V Federal Ministry of Finance
Lutz A. Knappmann Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Head of Economy
and Business Desk, and Head ofMetro/Regional Desk
Süddeutsche.de
Andreas Kraus Head of National Governmental Affairs DEKRA e.V.
Tanja C. Kraus Spokesperson of Minister Philipp Rösler Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology
Luisa Maier Entrepreneur and Business Founder Tech All Stars, Startupbootcamp
Christian Meister Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, 3rd
Mine Counter Measure Squadron German Navy
Thomas Meyer Senior Economist Deutsche Bank Research
Bogdan Mitna Manager Daimler AG
Farshad Mohammed-Avvali Consultant North Atlantic Treaty Association
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Katharina Muscheler Senior Legal Counsel, Institutional Law
Division Deutsche Bundesbank
Daniel Riedel Desk Officer, Division of Economics and
Finance Office of the Federal President
Sammi Sandawi Desk Officer, International Armaments
Policy Federal Ministry of Defense
Daniel Schaefer Investment Banking Correspondent The Financial Times
Timo Schiefer Head of German and U.S. Single Stock
Volatility Trading Commerzbank AG
Claudia Strasser Program Officer for German-American
Relations Robert Bosch Stiftung
Kerstin Thoma Vice President, Corporate Secretariat Deutsche Bank AG
Hanna Weber Associate Noerr LLP
Sara-Sumie Yang Special Assistant to Ambassador Wolfgang
Ischinger Munich Security Conference Allianz SE
Georg Schulze Zumkley First Secretary, Political Affairs German Embassy in Beijing
In Gratitude
Sponsors
The American Council on Germany isgrateful to the following sponsors of theXXXV American-German Young LeadersConference:
anchor RechtsanwälteAnna-Maria and Stephen M. Kellen
Foundation Daimler Deutsche Bank AG McDermott Will & EmeryNoerr LLPPfizer Deutschland Siemens AG
Steering Committee
The ACG would also like to express its manythanks to the below Young Leaders SteeringCommittee members for their tireless effortsto ensure a dynamic conference:
Edward S. McFadden (Chairman) (2002Young Leader)
Vice President, External Communications,Verizon
Paul Melot de Beauregard (2010 YL)Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
Matthias Deiss (2008 YL)Berlin Correspondent and Managing Editor,
ARD Berlin
Antonin Finkelnburg (2008 YL)Grundsatzfragen, Arbeitgeberverband
Gesamtmetall
Ann Marie Hauser (2007 YL)Vice President, Public Affairs, JDA
Frontline
Sarmad Hussain (2005 YL)Referent, Deutscher Bundestag
Justin Sayfie (2007 YL)Publisher, SayfieReview.comFounding Shareholder, Blosser & Sayfie
Karen FureyExecutive Vice President, American Council
on Germany
Young Leader Alumni Gatherings
The American Council on Germany givesYoung Leaders the opportunity not onlyto connect with one another during theconference but also to reconnect longafterwards. The American-German YoungLeaders Conference experience beginswith an exchange of ideas in the course ofone week but it creates enduringfriendships and partnerships. TheCouncil convened the following events forYoung Leader alumni in 2013.
April 23 – American-German YoungLeaders Conference alumni reception,hosted by Ambassador Busso vonAlvensleben, Consul General of Germanyin New York, with special guest KurtBiedenkopf, former Minister-President ofSaxony
June 14 – American-German YoungLeaders Conference alumni discussionand luncheon with Rep. Joachin Castro(2009 Young Leader), D-Texas, 20thDistrict, with remarks also byMaj. Gen.William E. Rapp (1995 YL), Chief of theLegislative Liaison Office of the Secretaryof the Army at the Pentagon, inWashington, D.C.
September 18 – American-GermanYoung Leaders Conference alumni event,hosted by Steering Committee ChairmanEdward S. McFadden, Vice President forExternal Communications at Verizon,with special guest Harald Leibrecht,Member of the German Bundestag andCoordinator of Transatlantic Cooperationin the Federal Foreign Office, inWashington, D.C.
October 2 – American-German YoungLeaders Conference alumni discussionwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel,Special Advisor to the President forInternational and Global Chicago Affairsat DePaul University, on “Germany’sLeadership and the Future of Europe:The Reluctant Leader” in Chicago
Alumni also gathered less formally inother venues to continue the dialoguestarted during the conference.
Philipp Rösler, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Min-
ister of Economics and Technology, addressing
the Young Leaders
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The Tripartite Young Leaders Conference is designed to create anenduring network of future global leaders. The third and finalsegment of this conference series – on “The European Union inCrisis and the Transatlantic Partnership in Trouble” – broughttogether 30 young bankers, lawyers, academics, journalists,researchers, and leaders from the private and public sector fromGermany, Poland, and the United States in Washington, D.C., fromOctober 15 to 18, 2013. This program was held in cooperation withthe Dräger Foundation and the Center for International Relations inWarsaw and was hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the UnitedStates.
The Young Leaders analyzed the many situations facing thetransatlantic relationship today, including the eurozone crisis, theNSA revelations, and ongoing negotiations on the TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Knowledge from the two
previous conferences allowed the Young Leaders to engage in fruitfuldialogue to continue their discussion on the financial crisis and itsmanagement over the course of three years, as well as its effect onEuropean domestic policy and foreign relations. The topicsdiscussed throughout the panels reflected the younger generation’sinterest in a strong transatlantic partnership and a strong EU,particularly as both sides of the Atlantic work together on thepressing global issues of the day. The dynamic mix of Germany,Poland, and the United States allowed for a multifaceted discussioninvolving three key players in the transatlantic partnership andstability of Europe.
Prominent speakers during the conference in Brussels includedIndermit Gill, Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia at theWorld Bank; Jens Hanefeld, Minister and Deputy Chief of Missionat the German Embassy; former ACG Board Member John Lipsky,Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School ofAdvanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University;Adeline Hindere Sayers, Counselor for the Trade and AgricultureSection of the Delegation of the European Union to the UnitedStates; Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf, U.S. Ambassador to Poland;and Ambassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCainInstitute for International Leadership at Arizona State University.
Conference participants considered the following topics:
• “The European Union Still in Crisis – Has Austerity Failed?”;
• “The ‘European Dream’ and the Financial and Social Crisis”;
• “Poland, A Success Story in the Midst of the EU Crisis?”;
• “The Economic and Political Future of the TransatlanticPartnership”;
• “Dealing with the Global Financial Crisis – A Never-EndingStory?”;
• “Foreign and Security Affairs in Transatlantic Relations”; and
• “Major Global Trends – What Will Be the Key Forces Driving theGlobal Economy and the Transatlantic Partnership?”
The Tripartite Young Leaders Conference series first convened inWarsaw in the fall of 2011, and the second segment brought theYoung Leaders to Brussels in the fall of 2012.
Participants and speakers at the Tripartite Young Leaders Conference in
Washington, D.C.
Tripartite Young Leaders Conference
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Established in 1976, the McCloy Fellowshipprogram provides a unique opportunity fortalented young professionals from theUnited States and Germany to travel acrossthe Atlantic to conduct research and engagein dialogue with their counterparts. Sincethe creation of the fellowship program, morethan 900 individuals have traveled abroad.The American Council on Germany awarded25 individuals McCloy Fellowships in 2013with the continued goal to foster transatlanticsynergies. McCloy Fellows are selected fromvarious industries and locations throughoutGermany and the United States in the fieldsof agriculture, art, environmental policy,journalism, and urban planning.
The McCloy Fellowships were named forJohn J. McCloy, founding Chairman of theACG, who believed that younger Americansand Germans benefit greatly from meetingtheir peers. His commitment to promotingtransatlantic understanding lives on in theMcCloy Fellows and the extensive networkof alumni.
Agriculture
During the fall, the 2013 McCloy Fellows inAgriculture traveled across the Atlantic for athree-week study of agricultural industriescovering policymaking, farming, and more.The four American McCloy Fellows inAgriculture visited various cities inGermany and Belgium to learn more aboutEuropean agricultural issues. The fellows,who come from Illinois, Iowa, New York,and Tennessee, met with members of theDeutscher Bauernverband (GermanFarmers’ Association) and the EuropeanParliament, as well as numerous fellowshipalumni who hosted the fellows during theirstay.
Similarly, four German McCloy Fellows inAgriculture came to the United States in lateSeptember to meet their Americancounterparts. The fellows, from Berlin,Neubrandenburg, Stuttgart, and Wittlich-Bombogen, visited farms, markets, andvineyards, and also met with members of theAmerican Farm Bureau Federation. Thefellows traveled to Washington, D.C., NewYork, Missouri, Illinois, Arizona, andFlorida while being hosted by Americanfellowship alumni.
The ACG extends its thanks to theAmerican Farm Bureau Federation and theDeutscher Bauernverband for their
assistance in identifying qualified candidatesfor the agriculture fellowships and forensuring the fellows’ itineraries are tailoredto their professional interests.
Art
For the first time in four years, the ACGawarded a McCloy Fellowship in Art. SherylOring, an Assistant Professor at theUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro,is traveling to Germany to create acomprehensive understanding of Germanindividuals’ feelings associated with the fallof the Berlin Wall. Her research is leading toa larger art exhibit in Berlin on the 25thanniversary of the fall of the Wall in October2014.
Environmental Policy
The ACG awarded four McCloy Fellowshipsin Environmental Policy in 2013. The twoAmericans and the two Germans are eachtraveling abroad for three weeks to conductresearch of their own design on timely topicssuch as climate change and energy efficiency.Arndt Bohrer, Head of Project Developmentfor Power Generation at Mark-EAktiengesellschaft in Hagen, examined U.S.capacity markets of energy supply. BenjaminReuter, a Berlin-based freelance journalistfor WirtschaftsWoche and DIE ZEIT,researched oil and gas production in theUnited States, particularly looking at shalegas. Erin Stojan Ruccolo, Director ofElectricity Policy for Fresh Energy in St.Paul, Minnesota, is reviewing energymarkets in the United States and Germany.Jason Schaefer, Clean Energy Coordinatorfor Red River Valley Community Action inGrand Forks, North Dakota, is looking atenergy efficiency policy in existing buildingsand the German model of the Passivhaus.
Journalism
In 2013, McCloy Fellowships in Journalismwere awarded to four individuals – twoAmericans and two Germans – to researchcurrent transatlantic issues. ViktoriaGrossmann, Editor for the SüddeutscheZeitung from Munich, is focusing on theTransatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership (TTIP). Lucy McKeon, a NewYork-based freelance journalist, is examiningthe German interest in Jewishness. BolaOmisore, a freelance journalist from Bowie,Maryland, is looking at the drivers behindthe greenification of Germany. Jonas Rest,Junior Editor for Berliner Zeitung, is
researching the rise of the share economy.
The 2013 American McCloy Fellows inJournalism were selected by a panel ofdistinguished journalists: ACG BoardMember Lee Cullum, Host of “CEO,” aseries of television interviews with businessleaders; ACG President William M.Drozdiak; Josh Friedman, Director ofMaria Moors Cabot Prizes at ColumbiaUniversity’s Graduate School of Journalism;and Michael Parks, a Professor at theUniversity of Southern CaliforniaAnnenberg School for Communication.
Urban Affairs
In early spring, four German McCloyFellows in Urban Affairs traveled to theUnited States to meet with city officials andpolicymakers and exchange best practices.The fellows, who come from Cottbus,Düsseldorf, Munich, and Oldenburg, werehosted by fellowship alumni for three weeksas they discussed topics such as urbanredevelopment, immigration, and energypolicies. The fellows traveled to New YorkCity, Washington, D.C., Iowa, Minnesota,and Washington state.
During the fall, four American McCloyFellows in Urban Affairs traveled toGermany to meet with their Europeancounterparts. The fellows, from Arizona,Florida, Michigan, and Ohio, were hosted bythe German fellows who had traveled earlierin the year and members of the DeutscherStädtetag (German Association of Cities).The fellows were able to witness the Germanfederal elections and participate in UnityDay celebrations.
The ACG would like to thank the NationalLeague of Cities and the DeutscherStädtetag for their assistance in selectingcandidates and for helping with thecoordination of the fellows’ itineraries.
ACG Fellowships for Young
Entrepreneurs and Innovators
In 2013, the American Council on Germanylaunched its newest fellowship program, theACG Fellowships for Young Entrepreneursand Innovators. The fellowships bring fourGermans to the United States for threeweeks to meet with American entrepreneursand venture capitalists to exchange bestpractices and build new networks. The firstfellows in the program are: Simon Bungers,
McCloy Fellowships
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Hunt and Goldman Fellowships
The Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for theStudy of German Politics, Culture, andSociety is awarded to promising youngAmerican academics whose work exploreskey themes of contemporary German societyor the political, cultural, and social history ofGermany. The fellowship is named in honorof former President and current ViceChairman of the ACG Richard M. Hunt andwas launched in 2003.
Two Hunt Fellowships were awarded in2013. Matthew Bunn was awarded the HuntFellowship to complete research toward hisPh.D. in history from the University ofTexas at Austin. Mr. Bunn’s research is onthe censors in Germany between 1815 and1866, with a focus on both the institutionalstatus of censors and the intellectual workthey produced in their roles as universityprofessors, journalists, and novelists.Alexandra Winnick, a Ph.D. candidate atRutgers University, is examining howGerman historical and collective memory ofthe 20th century is actively shaping publicrhetoric concerning contemporary human-rights foreign policy. The project addressesthe German debate surrounding NATOintervention in the Balkans in the 1990s byproviding a lens in which one canunderstand how governments and the mediaemploy notions of collective understandingsof the past to affect current policy.
The Dr. Guido Goldman Fellowship for theStudy of German and European Economicand International Affairs is awarded eachyear to an American scholar whose researchconcentrates on German economic andinternational policy in a wider Europeancontext. The fellowship was established in2003 to honor political scientist and ACGBoard Member Guido Goldman, Director ofGerman Studies at the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies at HarvardUniversity.
Martin Steinwand was awarded theGoldman Fellowship for his research onGerman foreign aid. Dr. Steinwand is anAssistant Professor of Political Science atStony Brook University. His researchexplores how Germany coordinates itsforeign aid policy with the United States andother European donor countries. Thisresearch is part of a larger project that looksinto the causes of donor fragmentation,which occurs when the number of donors
engaged in a single recipient countrythreatens to overwhelm the recipient’sbureaucratic capacity for administering aid.
Kellen Fellowships
Each year the Anna-Maria and Stephen M.Kellen Fellowship is awarded to promisingyoung Berlin-based journalists to conductinterviews and complete research on currenttrends in the transatlantic partnership. Thefellowship is named for Anna-Maria Kellenand the late Stephen M. Kellen, a Berlinnative who was an ACG Board Member andCo-Chairman of the New York investmentfirm Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings,Inc., and is funded by the Anna-Maria andStephen Kellen Foundation.
In 2013, five journalists were awarded aKellen Fellowship. Maja Heinrich, a StaffReporter of the Parliamentary Bureau ofMadsack Media Group, is researching thefuture of print media. Martina Merten wasawarded a Kellen Fellowship to conductresearch on American views associated withuniversal health care. Ms. Merten is a healthcare journalist for Deutsches Ärzteblatt. PeterMücke, Parliamentary Correspondent forARD-Hauptstadtstudio Berlin, isconducting research on new energy sourcesin the United States. Alexander-GeorgRackow, a political reporter and editor forBild am Sonntag, is looking at how someAmerican cities have decided to outsourcetheir policy department and prison system toprivate security organizations. AxelRahmlow, a host and editor forDeutschlandradio Kultur, is examining howthe changing demographics of Texas arecreating a shift in the political landscape.
On June 27, 2013, the ACG hosted abreakfast discussion with Kellen Fellowshipalumni in Berlin. Participating in aninteresting debate on the German federalelections was Ali Aslan (2010 YoungLeader), Host of “Quadriga” on DeutscheWelle TV; Henrik Flor, Senior Editor andConcept Developer for Stiftung Bürgermutand 2009 Kellen Fellow; and Birte Meier,Journalist/Reporter for ZDF and 2010Kellen Fellow. The discussion wasmoderated by ACG Board Member GarrickUtley, Senior Fellow at The Levin Instituteat SUNY and former ACG Chairman. Thespeakers covered the differences betweenAmerican and German campaigns,predictions for the German elections, andthe roles of the media.
Other Fellowships
the founder of Labfolder, a cloud-baseddigital lab notebook that aims to helplaboratory scientists move from pen andpaper to tablet devices, allowing them tovisualize and communicate theirexperiments; Markus Gilles, the founderof Makeapoint, an embeddablecommenting board for websites that usesmicro videos instead of text comments;Thomas Grüderich, the founder oftestCloud.de, which provides crowdsoftware testing for web, mobile, andenterprise applications; and BenjaminWüstenhagen, the founder ofmeinUnterricht.de, which helps teachersprepare their classes in faster, moreefficient, more innovative, and intuitiveways. The ACG worked in conjuctionwith the JFK Atlantic Forum in Berlin toselect these fellows.
Fellowship in the Spotlight
In the fall, four German McCloy Fellowsin Agriculture come to the United Statesfor three weeks of meetings with farmers,policymakers, and food producers todiscuss best practices. The 2013 fellowsbegan their program in Washington, D.C.,with a series of meetings with theAmerican Farm Bureau Federation beforetraveling to New York for several farmvisits and meetings.
While the fellows were familiar with NewYork City, they were unaware of the foodproduction nearby on Long Island. Thefellows spent three days touring producefarms, wineries, and dairy farms on theeastern end of Long Island. The fellowswere able to see farms that were affectedby Hurricane Sandy and the continuingrecovery process.
The fellows proceeded to New York City,where they visited a rooftop farm thatserves the community of Greenpoint,Brooklyn. To the fellows, the concept ofrooftop farming was quite unique. Thefellows were able to discuss thelimitations of farming in New York, suchas air quality and high land costs. Thefellows shared their ideas on how rooftopfarming could be successful in majorGerman cities.
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McCloy Fellows in
Agriculture
American
Brandon MooreOwnerMoore’s Hog FarmNashville, North Carolina
Steven SheafferVice President of LendingFirst Farm Credit ServicesOregon, Illinois
Trudy WastweetDeputy Secretary of AgricultureSouth Dakota Farm BureauFederation
Pierre, South Dakota
Kelly YoungSenior Associate Director ofNational Affairs
New York Farm BureauColonie, New York
German
Ariane Amstutz Assistant Press Officer andEditor
Landesbauernverband Baden-Wuerttemberg
Stuttgart, Germany
Ralf BeneckeDeputy Managing Director Bauernverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Neubrandenburg, Germany
Astrid RewertsHead of the Division of PlantProduction, Cereals, and Sugar
Deutscher BauernverbandBerlin, Germany
Magdalena ZelderFederal Chairwoman of theGerman Rural YouthAssociation
Deutscher BauernverbandWittlich-Bombogen, Germany
McCloy Fellow in Art
Sheryl OringAssistant ProfessorUniversity of North Carolina atGreensboro
Research Topic: “Beyond theWall”
McCloy Fellows in
Environmental Policy
American
Erin Stojan Ruccolo Director of Electricity PolicyFresh EnergySt. Paul, Minnesota Research Topic: “RenewableEnergy Markets in Germany”
Jason Schaefer Clean Energy CoordinatorRed River Valley CommunityAction
Grand Forks, North Dakota Research Topic: “Learning fromGermany’s Successful EnergyEfficiency Efforts for ExistingBuildings”
German
Arndt BohrerHead of Project Development Power GenerationMark-E Aktiengesellschaft Hagen, GermanyResearch Topic: “Energiewendeand Reliability – U.S. CapacityMarkets as a Role Model forGermany?”
Benjamin ReuterFreelance JournalistWirtschaftsWocheDüsseldorf, Germany Research Topic: “TheRenaissance of Oil and GasProduction in the USA”
McCloy Fellows in
Journalism
American
Lucy McKeonFreelance JournalistNew York, New YorkResearch Topic: “The CulturalPhenomenon of GermanInterest in Jewishness”
Bola OmisoreFreelance JournalistBowie, MarylandResearch Topic: “The Social,Economic, and PoliticalDrivers Behind the‘Greenification’ of Germany”
German
Viktoria GrossmannEditorSüddeutsche ZeitungMunich, Germany Research Topic: “The Future ofthe Transatlantic EconomicAgreement”
Jonas RestJunior EditorBerliner Zeitung/Berliner Verlag GmbH
Berlin, GermanyResearch Topic: “TheTransatlantic Rise of the ShareEconomy”
McCloy Fellows in
Urban Affairs
American
Kimberly CekolaResearch Associate and EditorMichigan Municipal LeagueAnn Arbor, Michigan
Joanne KeeneGovernment Relations DirectorCoconino County of ArizonaFlagstaff, Arizona
Patricia PlantamuraCity Council MemberCity of Seminole, Florida
Maraskeshia SmithDeputy Director of PublicServices
City of Cincinnati, Ohio
German
Pia EichenseerHead of Staff Unit for the LordMayor’s Office
City of Munich, Germany
Birthe Meier-EwertCity PlannerCity of Düsseldorf, Germany
Doreen MohauptUrban PlannerCity of Cottbus, Germany
Steffen TrawinskiInternational RelationsCoordinator
City of Oldenburg, Germany
Goldman Fellow
Martin SteinwandAssistant Professor of PoliticalScience
Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, New YorkResearch Topic: “CoordinatingGerman Foreign Aid”
Hunt Fellows
Matthew BunnDoctoral CandidateThe University of Texas atAustin
Austin, TexasResearch Topic: “Censors,Intellectuals, and Civil Societyin the German Confederation,1815-1866”
2013 Fellows
“As I look back on the people and the places and the ideas, I can only begin to grasp in how many ways I have been impacted. I observed bothsimilarities and stark differences between my home city and host cities. I’ve seen innovation in practice, and I’ve seen bold policy concepts being putinto practice to tackle problems that are common to many urban areas. I am already formulating ideas to incorporate my newfound understanding tothe city I call home. The potential is limitless. Cincinnati and I will be reaping the benefits of this experience for many years to come.”– Maraskeshia Smith, Deputy Director of Public Services, City of Cincinnati, Ohio
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Occasional Paper #1: “Beyond Europe – Germany’s
Global Commitment”
An address at the Annual Meeting of the Members of the AmericanCouncil on Germany by Ambassador Peter Wittig, PermanentRepresentative of Germany to the United NationsMarch 26, 2013New York City
Occasional Paper #2: “The Time Is Now for the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Relationship”
An address before various Eric M. Warburg Chapters of theAmerican Council on Germany by Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel,Special Advisor to the President at DePaul University in ChicagoApril 2013
Occasional Paper #3: “The Euro and Its Geostrategic
Dimension in the 21st Century”
An address by Jürgen Trittin, MdB, Chairman of Alliance 90/TheGreens in the German BundestagMay 7, 2013New York CityWith special thanks to the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Crowell &Moring LLP for supporting this event
Occasional Paper #4: “The Eurozone Crisis and the
German Economy”
An address by Joachim Poss, MdB, Deputy Chairman of the SPDParliamentary Group in the BundestagMay 29, 2013New York CityWith special thanks to Hodgson Russ LLP for hosting this event
Occasional Paper #5: “How Europe Is Overcoming
the Euro Crisis”
An address by Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the EuropeanStability Mechanism, before the American Council on Germany,Council for the United States and Italy, and French-AmericanFoundation October 8, 2013New York CityWith special thanks to Crowell & Moring LLP for supporting thisevent
Occasional Paper #6: “Germany – A ‘Reluctant
Hegemon’?”
An address by Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor atFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, before the Dallas Eric M. WarburgChapter of the American Council on GermanyOctober 15, 2013
Publications
Alexandra Winnick Doctoral CandidateRutgers University New Brunswick, New JerseyResearch Topic: “TheManipulation of Memory:Perceptions of GermanCollective Memory of WorldWar II and NATOIntervention in the Balkans”
Kellen Fellows
Maja HeinrichCorrespondent for theParliamentary Bureau
Madsack Media GroupBerlin, GermanyResearch Topic: “How theTarnished U.S. Media AreSurviving and StayingRelevant in Times of TechnicalProgress”
Martina MertenHealth Care JournalistDeutsches ÄrzteblattBerlin, GermanyResearch Topic: “Why DoAmericans Fear Health CareSystems Like the GermanOne?”
Peter MückeParliamentary CorrespondentARD-Hauptstadtstudio BerlinBerlin, GermanyResearch Topic: “America’sEnergy Market or a TemporaryBubble?”
Alexander-Georg RackowEditor and ReporterAxel-Springer AGBerlin, GermanyResearch Topic: “PrivatizingAmerica’s Security”
Axel RahmlowHost, Editor, and ReporterDeutschlandradio KulturBerlin, GermanyResearch Topic: “The ChangingDemographics of Texas and ItsImportance for the PoliticalLandscape of the U.S.”
ACG Fellowships for
Young Entrepreneurs
and Innovators
Simon BungersCEOLabfolder GmbHBerlin, Germany
Markus GillesCEOMakeapointBerlin, Germany
Thomas GrüderichChief Sales OfficertestCloud.de GmbHBerlin, Germany
Benjamin WüstenhagenManaging DirectorK.lab educmedia GmbHBerlin, Germany
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UNDERWRITERS
AlcoaDeutsche BankDeutsche Post DHLDHL ExpressDHL Supply ChainEli Lilly and CompanyLilly DeutschlandGmbH
PATRONS
Arnhold and S. BleichroederHoldings, Inc.
Bridgewater Associates, LP
CitiGuido GoldmanLufthansa GermanAirlines
Mannheim LLCPatomak Global PartnersPricewaterhouseCoopersLLP
SPONSORS
Allianz of AmericaAT&T Services, Inc.BASF CorporationJoseph M. CohenDebevoise & Plimpton LLP
DeloitteEADS North AmericaFacebookAmbassador and Mrs.Robert M. Kimmitt
Joseph McLaughlinMilbank, Tweed, Hadley& McCloy LLP
Paramount Group, Inc.Sidley Austin LLP
FRIENDS
AugustinPartners LLCBayernLBbayme vbm vbw /Bavarian IndustryAssociation
Bismarck Capital, LLCBT Global ServicesJohn J. CalamanLee CullumDentons US LLPDavid W. DetjenDeutsche TelekomDZ BANK New YorkBranch
Walter A. EberstadtEpstein Becker & Green, P.C.
William R. HarmanRichard M. Hunt
Brian K. KleinMaximusMercedes-Benz USA, LLC
Michael MohrDale L. PonkivarSeyfarth Shaw LLPTRUMPF Inc.Garrick UtleyWilmer Cutler PickeringHale and Dorr
The American Council on Germany presented John J. McCloyAwards to John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., Chairman, President, andChief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company, and Dr. FrankAppel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post DHL, on June 11,2013, in New York City for their and their companies’ work topromote transatlantic economic ties. ACG Chairman AmbassadorRobert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel at Wilmer CutlerPickering Hale and Dorr LLP, was the master of ceremonies. ACGBoard Member Alex M. Azar II, President of Lilly USA, acceptedthe McCloy Award on behalf of Dr. Lechleiter.
Ambassador Peter Ammon, German Ambassador to the UnitedStates, shared a message of congratulations from Chancellor AngelaMerkel, and Kathleen Doherty, Deputy Assistant Secretary in theBureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of
State, conveyed wishes from President Barack Obama. ACG BoardMember Guido Goldman, Director of German Studies at the Mindade Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University,introduced Ailey II dancers, who treated guests to a dynamic set ofperformances.
The American Council on Germany presents John J. McCloy Awardsto the leader of an American firm and the leader of a German firmeach year for their work to enhance the transatlantic economicrelationship. First presented in 1993, the awards are named in honorof John J. McCloy, the founding Chairman of the ACG and the firstcivilian U.S. High Commissioner for Germany after World War II,who also served as an advisor to every U.S. President from FranklinRoosevelt to Ronald Reagan. The awards pay tribute to Mr. McCloy’stireless efforts to promote closer transatlantic ties.
2013 John J. McCloy Awards Dinner
ACG Board Member Guido Goldman, Director of German Studies at the Minda
de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University; McCloy Award
recipient Dr. Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post DHL; and
former ACG Board Member John Lipsky, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University (left to right)
ACG Chairman Ambassador Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel
at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, presenting the McCloy Award to
ACG Board Member Alex M. Azar II, President of Lilly USA, who accepted the
award on behalf of John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., Chairman, President, and Chief
Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company (left to right)
The American Council on Germany gratefully thanks the following supporters:
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The American Council on Germany’s corporate membershipprogram provides leaders in the German-American businesscommunity with added perspectives on economic andpolitical developments through special policy discussions,publications, and more. Corporate members have theopportunity to meet with various German officials,journalists, academics, and other experts to discuss key issueson the transatlantic agenda, and to network with others whoare engaged in the German-American relationship. Topcontributors are automatically members of the BusinessAdvisory Committee (BAC).
In 2013, as the eurozone crisis and economic uncertaintycontinued, Germans went to the polls, and the NSArevelations dominated headlines, the ACG conveneddiscussions with distinguished officials and experts to analyzepolicy prescriptions and the best way forward. Meetingpartners in 2013 included Ursula von der Leyen, thenGerman Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs;Werner Hoyer, President and Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the European Investment Bank; and KlausRegling, Managing Director of the European StabilityMechanism. Business Advisory Committee members alsowere treated to a private dinner with Wolfgang Schäuble,German Federal Minister of Finance, in Washington, D.C.
The ACG would like to thank ACG Board Member Dale L.Ponikvar, Partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP,who also serves as the ACG’s Counsel, and ChristianJagenberg, Executive Vice President and General Manager ofNORD/LB, for serving as Co-Chairmen of the BusinessAdvisory Committee.
Corporate Membership Program
Corporate Leaders
($10,000 and above)
• Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc.
• AT&T
• BMW Group
• Daimler
• Deutsche Bank
• Deutsche Telekom
• Goldman Sachs
• Lilly
• Locke Lord LLP
• Lufthansa
• NWI Management LP
• Pfizer Inc
• Siemens
• Warburg Pincus
Corporate Associates
($5,000-$9,999)
• Baldwin-Gottschalk Group
• BASF Corporation
• bayme vbm vbw – BavarianIndustry Association
• Citi
• Commerzbank AG
• Debevoise & Plimpton
• Deloitte & Touche
• Deutsche Post DHL NorthAmerica
• DZ BANK
• Ernst & Young
• JPMorgan Chase
• Mannheim LLC
• McDermott Will & Emery
• Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &McCloy LLP
• Noerr LLP
• NORD/LB
• Paramount Group
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Sidley Austin LLP
• Volkswagen of America
Corporate Contributors
(up to $4,999)
• Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen
• Medley Global Advisors
• R&J Investors, Inc.
The Council is very grateful for the support and generosity
of all of the corporate members listed here:
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• Alston + Bird LLP• American Farm Bureau Federation• American Friends of Bucerius• anchor Rechtsanwälte • Arizona State University • Atlantik-Brücke• Baker & McKenzie LLP• Berlin Partners• Booz & Company• BridgehouseLaw • Center for German and European Studies, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis• Center for German and European Studies at the University of
Wisconsin – Madison• Center for International Relations in Warsaw• Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State
University• Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations• Council for the United States and Italy• Crowell & Moring LLP• Daimler• Dallas Goethe Center• Davidson College• Dentons US LLP• Denver Council on Foreign Relations • Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt
University• Deutsche Bank AG • Deutscher Bauernverband• Deutscher Städtetag• Deutsches Haus at NYU• Dräger Foundation• Duane Morris LLP• European Union Center of Excellence at the University of
Wisconsin – Madison• Florida Atlantic University• Foundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services,
Indiana, Inc.• French-American Foundation• Friedrich Ebert Foundation• Frost Brown Todd LLC• George C. Marshall International Center• George Mason University• German American Chamber of Commerce of California, Inc.• German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc.,
Minnesota Chapter• German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S.• German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern United
States, Tennessee Chapter• German American Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia• German American San Diego Foundation • German Center for Research and Innovation• German Consul General of Boston• German Consul General of Chicago
• German Consul General of Houston • German Consul General of Los Angeles• German Consul General of New York• German Consul General of San Francisco • German Embassy• German Honorary Consul of Indianapolis • German Honorary Consul of Minneapolis/St. Paul • German Honorary Consul of Pittsburgh • German Honorary Consul of San Diego• German Research Foundation• Germanic-American Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota• Goethe-Institut Boston• Goethe-Institut San Francisco• Goldman Sachs & Co.• The Halle Foundation • The Harvard University Center for the Environment• Heinrich Böll Foundation• Hodgson Russ LLP• Indiana University Bloomington• JFK Atlantic Forum• Konrad Adenauer Foundation• Locke Lord LLP• Max Kade Institute, Vanderbilt University• McDermott Will & Emery• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis• Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard
University• Nashville Committee on Foreign Relations • National League of Cities• New School for Social Research• Next Gen Project Texas• Noerr LLP• NORD/LB• Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff• Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP• Pfizer Deutschland • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco• Pryor Cashman LLP• Reiss+Preuss LLP• San Diego German American Chamber of Commerce California • San Diego World Trade Center • Sidley Austin LLP• Siemens AG • Sister Cities of Nashville, Inc. • SMU Tower Center• University of Arizona, Tucson• University of Pittsburgh European Union Center of Excellence
and European Studies Center• Warburg Pincus LLC• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard
University• World Affairs Council of Charlotte• World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh• ZEIT Foundation
Co-Sponsors and Collaborating Organizations
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Foundation and Individual Support
Grants and Foundation Support
• Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation
• Anonymous
• European Recovery Program
• German Marshall Fund of the United States
• The Halle Foundation
• The Roy A. Hunt Foundation
• Sumner Gerard Foundation
• Victoria Owen Klein Charitable Trust
• The Walbridge Fund, Ltd.
• The Zacks Family Foundation
Individual Support
$5,000 and above
Kenneth W. and Marcia W. Dam
Guido GoldmanJoseph McLaughlinDale L. PonikvarUlrike K. SchlaflyStanford S. Warshawsky
$1,000 to $4,999
John J. CalamanJoseph F. Campbell, Jr.Lee B. CullumDavid W. DetjenWilliam R. HarmanChristopher M. SchroederKurt F. ViermetzMarie M. WarburgRobert B. Zoellick
$500 to $999
Wolfgang Baare-SchmidtMarc BitzerSol Z. BloomenkranzErnestine BradleyAnthony J.R. CookRuth E. DenkJeffrey FeltmanAndrew D. FrankGary L. GeipelHartmut G. GrossmannKenneth I. JusterKarl KaiserChristoph LangeKurt LeopoldJohn LipskyAchim MoellerDavid A. MurdochHarry Carl SchaubThomas S. Windmuller
To $499
Courtney AdanteMichael A. AlmondPeter S. AlwardtSebastian ArangoHarold T. AtkinsReinhard AugustinGregg E. BauerAnna von BayernMarcel A. BensJohannes M. BiermannJ.D. BindenagelRobert A. Black
Constantin R. BodenBruce E. BoeversVincenz von BraunCharles N. BrowerKeirn C. Brown, Jr.Russell F. ColemanJay W. CooperLew W. CramerHans W. DeckerJeffrey J. DonarskiMarisa DopplerAlan van EgmondJuliane van EgmondSebastian A. FairhurstKaren FureyTim Markus GuertlerJoann HalpernHugh G. Hamilton, Jr.Peter B. HansonCharles S. HarrisJuliane HaukeCharles B. HeckLeon Hen-TovHansjörg HeppeJudith F. HernstadtStephen K. HunterMary Jo Jacobi-JephsonUlrich KahlowSusan L. KaramanianMichael H. KedenAndre KellenersJ. Wilfried KischkatDietrich von KlaedenGerald KromerDennis R. KruseRoger M. KubarychSusanne KuhnBrian K. KurzmannInge LaSusaJohn David LoviThilo MaierGray McCalley, Jr.John J. McCloy IIMark S. McNeilCharles H. Merriman IIITanja MildenbergerScott MillerAndrew K. MittagGerd D. MuellerSandra NavidiWolfram NolteEdward B. O’Donnell, Jr.Juergen R. OstertagMartin OttRichard W. PorterCaspar Graf von PreysingJohn E. RiellyDominik Rohé
Kai R. RohrschneiderRebecca R. RubinDaniel SchellenbergHolger SchlageterKatja SchremmerKathrin S. SchwesingerJoel L. ShinDonald R. SkinnerWilliam Y. SmithJeffrey SmollerJed C. SnyderSolveig B. SpielmannWalter E. StadtlerRuth Ann StaufferMark StencelPeter StockfischJuergen H. ThiemeJeffrey Alan ThinnesKen D. TidwellJohn Tokolish IIIH. Anton TucherJohn R. TuttleGabe Shawn VargesElizabeth A. VoightAndreas M. WuestAngela Stent YerginAndreas G. ZetzscheMirt Zwitter-Tehovnik
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Michaela AbelsDavid S. AbrahamJefferson L. AdamsCourtney AdanteArthur Yorke AllenMichael A. AlmondAmy L. AlvarezPeter S. AlwardtSebastian ArangoHenry H. ArnholdHarold T. AtkinsPaul Stewart AtkinsReinhard AugustinPeter AukampAlex M. Azar IIWolfgang Baare-SchmidtC. Margarethe BaillouHarm BandholzC. Robert Barker IIIWilliam M. BarronChristoph BartmannBrad L. BartonWilliam M. BassMatthias G. BaudischGregg E. BauerLawrence A. BauerPeter V. BaugherAnna von BayernPaul Melot de BeauregardFlorian BeckerJordan M. BeckerRobert W. BeckerWilliam W. BeddowRobert M. BeecroftHugo BeitAndre BelelieuJohn B. Bellinger IIIMaximilian von BelowAlexander BenderMarcel A. BensBradford A. BerensonJ. Frederick Berg, Jr.Sven BerggoetzDieter BergtKevin BertramRudy H. BeutellSebastian G. BiedenkopfJohannes M. BiermannAndreas BillmeierJ.D. BindenagelJeff BissonnetteMarc BitzerRobert A. BlackChristian T. BlackwellMichael D. BlechmanBryce C. BlegenBernhard Juergen BleiseSol Z. BloomenkranzJoseph BlumMarc-Michael BlumConstantin R. BodenBruce E. BoeversJoshua B. BoltenBrigitte G. BommBradley J. BondiDavid V. BonfiliMichael P. Bornemann
Ernestine BradleyPhilip O. BrandesRainer BraunVincenz von BraunAndreas K. BremerAlexander M. BrillCharles N. BrowerKeirn C. Brown, Jr.Reginald J. BrownWillard BruceReinhard BruchViktoria BruellerChristian C. BruneSiegfried BrunnerOliver G. BuckMartin BussmannJohn J. CalamanEdwina S. CampbellJoseph F. Campbell, Jr.Claus von CampenhausenJohn CanadyRichard J. CaplesTheodore N. CarterM. Blouke CarusDagmar A. CassanTed J. ChiappariVolker ChristiansJames W. CicconiAnne E. CohenE. Thomas ColemanRussell F. ColemanHeather Ann ConleyAnthony J.R. CookJay W. CooperBryan N. CorbettElizabeth E. CovingtonLew W. CramerMelinda CreasmanLee CullumKenneth W. DamBal G. DasKaren F. DavidsonChristine DaviesChristine U. DavisLauren K. DayHans W. DeckerBern E. DeichmannErin F. DelaneyLogan D. Delany, Jr.Ruth E. DenkDavid W. DetjenDieter DettkeFrances A. DevlinAndreas DischeCarl DittrichCharles W. DittrichTina DoerfferAstrid DoernerJeffrey J. DonarskiKaren DonfriedRobert J. DonzeMarisa DopplerGeorge A. EberstadtWalter A. EberstadtAlan van EgmondJuliane H. van EgmondMarcus Ehrhardt
Stanton Paul EigenbrodtNicole EldredgeAlexandra EngelWolfgang EngelEnno W. Ercklentz, Jr.Joseph M. ErwinAndre EsperlingChristine EstereicherMiguel EstienFlorian von EybSebastian A. FairhurstRonald L. FarisAnnamaria FatoTibor FedkeLawrence FeickJeffrey D. FeltmanRobert L. Fenstermacher, Jr.Heidi B. FentonCharles K. Fewell, Jr.Anthony J. FioreRobert J. FiorePeter FischerMiles FisherRichard W. FisherRobert S. FisherJustin FoxDavid FrancisAndrew D. FrankAndrew V. FrankelMarc E. FreySilke FrickeJohn G. FroemmingAlton FryeFrederick R. FucciJohannes K. GabelThomas GaissmaierShelley A. GalbraithDaniel Martin Gallagher, Jr.Paul GallagherJohn GalvinHenrike Garkisch-MobedRobert GarrettJohn D. GattoKarl GeerckenGary L. GeipelJames W. GerardMichael A. GerlichHans-Michael GiesenJarobin GilbertRichard P. GildeaIrene Magers GingoldJoel N. GlassmanHeather K. GodsmarkGuido GoldmanJoshua GotbaumFrank K. GottschalkEric C. GraageGeorge R. GranholmHelmut GrasseGregor F. GregorichGunther E. GreinerStephen C. GrillHartmut G. GrossmannJuergen GrossmannMarkus GrueneislAlbert E. GuarnieriTim Guertler
Andrew GundlachSamuel S. HagemanJohn O. Hagen, Jr.Claudia HaggBrian J. HaleyJoann HalpernMichael HaltzelDaniel S. HamiltonHugh G. Hamilton, Jr.James N. HamiltonMichael G. HanpeterPeter B. HansonRudolph W. HardyJohn A. HargravesWilliam R. HarmanCharles S. HarrisHope M. HarrisonThomas J. Harrold, Jr.Florian HartmannJuliane HaukeAnn Marie HauserGregory F. HauserCharles B. HeckLansing G. HeckerThomas M. HeeringH.A. Tillmann HeinRalph HeinsRolf H. HeitmeyerSteffen HemmerichLeon Hen-TovHansjörg HeppeRosario E. HeppeTorsten HerbstJudith F. HernstadtKarl G. HeroldJohn M. Herrmann IIHeinz Jürgen HessWilliam HetzlerChristoph W. HeuerEdward T. HightowerJeffrey G. HilsgenKatrin HochstetterMichael W. HodinJuergen von HoevellFrancis O’Brien HoganOliver HohenstatterJorn A. HollJames F. HollifieldArthur W. HollingsworthH. Friedrich HolzapfelRodney E. HoodAstrid HoranRichard HornikRudolph S. HouckErik HowerJosef HuberCatherine HugThomas L. HughesHeiko HummelRichard M. HuntWilliam E. HuntStephen K. HunterTimothy P. HurleyAmy Fay IsaacsMary Jo Jacobi-JephsonKonrad H. JarauschJames F. Jeffrey
James L. Johnson, Jr.Helge JordanMonu JosephIrmintraud JostAchim A. JungbluthKenneth I. JusterMark KadarUlrich KahlowKarl KaiserJan-Friedrich KallmorgenSusan L. KaramanianPeter H. KaskellYusef M. KassimSebastian F.C. KaufmannH. Michael KedenDustin L. KeeleAndre KellenersArthur L. KellyFrancis J. KellyThomas L. Kelly IIMaximilian W. KempnerJan KengelbachR. Craig KennedyKaren E. KerrR. Donald KeysserBirgit KienzleRobert M. KimmittJ. Wilfried KischkatHenry A. KissingerDietrich von KlaedenJosef KleeBrian K. KleinDavid KleinKlaus KleinfeldPaul KleinschmidtMichael KniggeBenjamin KnoedlerArend Julius KochF. Peter KohlerJohn C. KornblumSven KorndoerfferMelissa KovacsTorsten H. KrachtLili Seggos KrechGerald KromerUwe KruegerPhilipp S. KrugerDennis R. KruseChristina M. KsollRoger M. KubarychJennifer Martin KuhnSusanne KuhnKaren A. KurraschDonald B. KurschBirgit KurtzBrian K. KurzmannBarbara KutscherArthur B. LabyKelly Parsons LaiChristoph LangeInge LaSusaKaren Laureano-RikardsenHans LeamanVolker LehmannRichard LehneMarc LemckeKurt Leopold
2013 Roster of Individual Members
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Marne LevineKatrin LewertoffThorsten LiebertAndreas LindemannJohn LipskyAlexander S.J. LisAurelian J.A. LisEric C. LiuEric H. LoebAlexander LoefkenJohn David LoviAllyson M. LoweOliver LuckPaul Michael LutzelerAlan S. MacDonaldHeinz W. MachatzkeThilo MaierVada O’Hara ManagerChristian MandersJonathan L.B. MandersBrian MarrsBrian K. MarsicanoMichael S. MathewsCharles B. MathiasMargarita MathiopoulosErnst-Richard MatthiensenGale A. MattoxPatricia MatzyeAndrew L. MayFrank A. MayerColette MazzucelliGray McCalley, Jr.John J. McCloy IIJohn Jay McCloy IIIRush McCloyEdward S. McFaddenIan McKechnieSusan McKeeJoseph McLaughlinMichael E. McMahonMark S. McNeilLawrence C. McQuadeVera McVeyDale MedearisSharon I. MeersLois Pattison de MenilCharles H. Merriman IIICatherine S. MeschievitzHermann G. MichaeliChristian MichelJens MilbrandtTanja MildenbergerRay MilesScott L. MillerAndrew K. MittagAchim MoellerOliver Karl MolitorAttila MolnarMargaret C. Monahan-BoppKenneth B. MossClaus MuellerGerd D. MuellerThomas MuellerDennis MulhauptBryan T. MullinsDavid A. MurdochDeroy Murdock
Philip D. MurphyRobert L. MurphyIan P. MurrayMark NaskiSanjiv NathwaniSandra NavidiGeorg NebgenBenjamin NelsonGregory F. NemetPeter NeumannDan L. NicewanderPhilip M. NicholsChris NickersonJohn D. NicolayWolfram NolteNick OberheidenStephen J. ObermeierFred J. O’ConnorEdward B. O’Donnell, Jr.Leo J. O’DonovanSven C. OehmeManfred OhrensteinJohn P. OlsenChristopher Freiherr von
OppenheimMichael L. OrsoJuergen R. OstertagJeremiah P. OstrikerMartin OttNorbert PanekJennifer L. ParentiJohn J. ParisiAndrew ParkLawrence M. ParksHarald PaumgartenRuth A. PechauerPaul W. PendorfMichael P. PetersiliaJonathan PetropoulosThomas PetzWalter F. PetzingerDavid H. PfeifferChristian PfrangMatthias M. PitkowitzDaisy F. PlattMarguerite B. PlattDale L. PonikvarBruce D. PorterDamon S. PorterRebecca I. PorterRichard W. PorterAdam PosenJoel S. PostElke Pratley-BaumannKye A. Presley-DowdJascha D. PreussOskar Prinz von PreussenCaspar Graf von PreysingDomenica PreysingPeyton D. ProspereCarranza M. PryorHeinz-Helmer PuetthoffCameron P. QuinnFabian RaddatzJuergen RademakerJustin X. RamsteckMonica Ranniger
Milan J. RebanCraig RedingerMarc RedlichKimberly A. ReedElke RehbockFred W. ReinkeGuy A. ReissJames M. RhodesAnne C. RichardDietmar M. RiegJohn E. RiellyJoe RitchieUwe RobbenRichard T. RobertsBenjamin RohéDominik RohéEberhard H. RöhmKai R. RohrschneiderTobias RosefeldtGitta RottDavid M. RubensteinRebecca R. RubinChristoph RueckelJarrett W. RussellGuy G. Rutherfurd, Jr.Paul Joseph RyanHans J. SackMarietta Lutze SacklerRosemary SagarLarry D. SallW.E. Tige Savage, Jr.Justin SayfieBruce SchachneChrista Maria SchanzHarry Carl SchaubDavid A. ScheffelThomas F. SchlaflyUlrike K. SchlaflyHolger SchlageterBenjamin SchliemannHans-Jörg SchmedesVicki SchmelzerKarl H. SchmidtJulia Schmidt-WilkeDieter A. SchmitzJohn P. SchmitzJoseph E. SchmitzPhilip SchmitzWinfried F. SchmitzThomas F. SchneiderAnne J. SchollRobert L. SchottHagen SchremmerKatja SchremmerAugustus O. Schroeder, Jr.Christopher M. SchroederSebastian SchwarkThomas A. SchwartzKathrin SchwesingerBrent ScowcroftWilliam B. SellersWilli SemmlerFlorian SeubertAndreas SeuffertRobert L. ShaferHarry ShannonRenate M. Sharp
John P. ShayJoel L. ShinA. Bradley ShingletonStacey B. SilvaDonald R. SkinnerWalter B. SlocombeNina SmidtSarah SmileyGary SmithMark D. SmithWilliam Y. SmithJeffrey SmollerJed C. SnyderSteven E. SokolMartin SpeckesserJerry I. SpeyerMatthias SpielkampSolveig B. SpielmannBart SponsellerAndrew F. StaabWalter E. StadtlerT. Eiko StangeRuth Ann StaufferMark StencelAngela E. StentFritz R. SternPeter StockfischRobert A. StrattonCarol Kahn StraussHarlan J. StraussEva-Maria StreierDominik M. StuehlerHerbert W. StuppHolland A. Sullivan, Jr.Michael A. SullivanErik F. SwabbEdward TanenbaumPhilip TerzianSteven H. ThalJuergen H. ThiemeJeffrey Alan ThinnesRobert ThorburnKen D. TidwellSebastian B. TigerJohn Tokolish IIIMarc M. TractAustin TriggsH. Anton TucherSusanne S. Nienaber von
TürkJohn R. TuttleEric UmlaufGabe Shawn VargesMarkus K. VeithKurt F. ViermetzHeike A. VogelSylvia B. VogtElizabeth A. VoightPaul A. VolckerChristina VoulgarelisNadine M. WachterDavid Wagstaff IVNicola WalterMarie M. WarburgStanford S. WarshawskyYelberton R. WatkinsAmelie von Wedel
Ulrich WeghoffHelge H. WehmeierFelix WeinachtJanice G. WeinerKonrad M. WeisWolfgang WeissMatthew G. WellsArndt-Oliver Welsch-
LehmannJeffrey D. WernerRobert P. WesselyJohn C. WhiteheadBettina WiedmannDirk WillerKlaus WilmesSteven WinchCatherine Barr WindelsThomas S. WindmullerH. Alexander Wise, Jr.David WisowatyPeter WolframDavid T. WolfsonGeoffrey T. WoolleyV. Thomas Worrall IVBernd J. WuebbenAndreas M. WuestAndrew D. ZacksTodd C. ZapolskiAndreas G. ZetzscheKarl ZiebarthDonald ZirkleRobert B. ZoellickMirt Zwitter-Tehovnik
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As we at the American Council on Germany were preparing to go topress with this annual report, we received the very sad news that twoof our most dedicated longtime leaders had passed away: BoardMember and former ACG Chairman Garrick Utley and HonoraryBoard Member and longtime ACG Treasurer Walter A. Eberstadt.Both laid the groundwork for the Council’s future in their ownspecial way, and their loss is deeply felt at the ACG.
Garrick was Chairman of the American Council on Germany foralmost 13 years, from 1998 to 2011. ACG Chairman Robert M.Kimmitt described the scope of Garrick’s impact at the ACG andindeed more widely: “Garrick Utley’s contributions to the German-American relationship are significant and enduring. He was thepersonification of the American Council on Germany for thegeneration of Young Leaders who came of age in the exciting yearsafter the fall of the Berlin Wall. His legacy will live through them forgenerations to come.”
Garrick had been serving as a Senior Fellow at the Neil D. LevinGraduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce of theState University of New York after serving as its President from 2003until December 31, 2011. He previously was a senior correspondentfor CNN based in the network’s New York bureau. His 2000 book,You Should Have Been Here Yesterday, provides a sweeping history ofnetwork news. Before joining CNN in February 1997, he served asABC News’ chief foreign correspondent for three years. Earlier, hespent 30 years with NBC News covering international affairs andreporting from more than 70 countries. While at NBC, he moderated“Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., anchored “Sunday Today,”hosted the monthly magazine “First Tuesday,” and anchored “NBCMagazine,” among many other assignments. He was awarded severalof journalism’s most distinguished honors, including the OverseasPress Club’s Edward R. Murrow Award in 1984 for his reports onSoviet-American relations, and the George Foster Peabody Award in1986 for his contributions to “Vietnam: Ten Years Later.”
In Memoriam
Garrick Utley Walter A. Eberstadt
“He was the most dignified raconteur I have ever met, one of thetruly great foreign correspondents of his or any generation, a man ofsubstance, with diverse interests and a gentleman through andthrough,” said longtime American-German Young LeadersConference Steering Committee Chairman Edward S. McFadden(2002 Young Leader), Vice President for External Communicationsat Verizon. “Garrick Utley was a class act, pure and simple, a greatjournalist who was truly committed to the important transatlanticrelationship many of us are invested in, and I am proud to have beenable to call him a friend.”
Former ACG President and current Vice Chairman Richard M.Hunt, who created the annual Garrick Utley Lecture on GlobalMedia Issues, related an anecdote about Garrick: “When he retiredfrom the Chairmanship of the Council, I sat next to him at a lunchone day and we talked about 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall andthen the collapse of Communism. I quoted from a book I had beenreading about George Kennan: ‘Blest is the man who has visited thisworld in its fateful moments ...’ He smiled and said, ‘I guess that’strue for all of us old-timers.’ ”
If Garrick was the resident policy analyst – the roving journalist whocould place world events into context for audiences of all sizes, at theACG and far beyond – then Walter was the numbers man, deft as hewas with the written word as well.
Walter became a member of the American Council on Germany in1975, and in 1977 became a Board Member and Treasurer – aposition in which, he noted, he followed with considerabletrepidation in the distinguished footsteps of Eric M. Warburg.Walter served as Treasurer until 2000. In his professional life, heserved as Managing Director of Lazard Frères and Company. Walterremained on the ACG Board until 2008, at which time he was electedan Honorary Board Member. A patron of the arts and a longtimebenefactor for The Frick Collection, he also served as Chairman ofthe Advisory Board of the World Policy Institute, a Trustee at theNew School University, and President of the Northside Center forChild Development. Walter had moved with his family to Englandin 1936 to escape Nazi persecution. He served in the British Army asan officer and fought in Normandy, where he was wounded. Afterthe war, he was put in charge of Radio Hamburg and then wrote forthe Economist for three years. In his book Whence We Came, WhereWe Went – a chronicle of his family’s remarkable history – he wrotethat his involvement in the Council “was a way to continue what Ihad started in Hamburg after the war.” He went on to say that hecarefully nurtured the Council’s growing financial base by avoidingrisky positions amid a volatile stock market. As a result of hisacumen, the ACG’s endowment grew 10-fold during his tenure.
The ACG would like to express its heartfelt sympathy to Garrick’swife, Gertje Utley, and also to Walter’s wife, Vera Eberstadt; theirchildren, George (1998 YL) and Michael; and four grandchildren.The Council simply would not be where it is today without Garrick’sand Walter’s Herculean efforts and, it must be said, winningpersonalities.
The ACG Mourns the Loss of Former Chairman Garrick Utley and Former Treasurer Walter A. Eberstadt
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Officers
ChairmanRobert M. Kimmitt
Chairman EmeritusJohn Galvin
Vice ChairmanRichard M. Hunt
Honorary Vice ChairmanPaul A. Volcker
PresidentWilliam M. Drozdiak
Executive Vice PresidentKaren Furey
Vice President andDirector of Programs
Helena Kane Finn
TreasurerWilliam R. Harman
CounselDale L. Ponikvar
Honorary DirectorWalter A. Eberstadt
Directors
Paul Stewart AtkinsChief ExecutivePatomak Partners LLC
Alex M. Azar IIPresident Lilly USA
Martin BussmannManaging DirectorMannheim LLC
John J. CalamanSenior Vice President –Investments
Stifel, Nicolaus &Company, Incorporated
James W. CicconiSenior EVP – Externaland Legislative Affairs
AT&T
Anne E. CohenPartnerDebevoise & Plimpton LLP
Lee CullumHost, “CEO”North Texas Media
David W. DetjenPartnerAlston + Bird LLP
William M. DrozdiakPresidentAmerican Council onGermany
Richard W. FisherPresident and CEOFederal Reserve Bank ofDallas
Guido GoldmanDirector of GermanStudies at the Minda deGunzburg Center forEuropean Studies
Harvard University
Andrew GundlachDirectorArnhold and S.Bleichroeder Holdings
William R. HarmanInvestor
Richard M. HuntUniversity Marshal a.D.Harvard University
Karl KaiserDirector, TransatlanticRelations Program
Harvard University
Francis J. Kelly, Jr.Managing Director andGlobal Coordinator,Public Affairs
Deutsche Bank AG
Robert M. KimmittChairmanAmerican Council onGermany
Senior InternationalCounsel
Wilmer Cutler PickeringHale and Dorr LLP
Henry A. KissingerChairmanKissinger Associates Inc.
Brian K. KleinCo-Founder andManaging Member
Steelhead Partners L.L.C.
Klaus KleinfeldChairman and CEOAlcoa Inc.
Marne LevineVice President, GlobalPublic Policy
Alan S. MacDonaldChief Client OfficerCiti
John J. McCloy IIChairman of the BoardGravitas Technology, Inc.
Joseph McLaughlinPartnerSidley Austin LLP
Dale L. PonikvarPartnerMilbank, Tweed, Hadley& McCloy LLP
Ulrike K. SchlaflyInternational ConsultantThe Saint Louis Brewery, Inc.
Christopher M.Schroeder
Internet Entrepreneurand Investor
Brent ScowcroftPresidentThe Scowcroft Group
Garrick UtleySenior FellowThe Levin Institute
Marie M. WarburgManaging DirectorPrivate Life BioMed AG
Stanford S. WarshawskyChairmanBismarck Capital, LLC
Staff
Robin Cammarota-Nicolson
Fellowship Manager
William M. DrozdiakPresident
Helena Kane FinnVice President andDirector of Programs
Karen FureyExecutive Vice President
Johanna GregoryProgram Manager
Tara HarveyProgram Assistant
Michele Nevenka Lalic�Media and DigitalCommunicationsManager
Michele RuehsSteinbuch
Director of CorporateCommunications
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