American Academy in Berlin

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American Academy in Berlin

ORGANIZATION

Established 1997. "The mission of the American Academy in Berlin is to strengthen the transatlantic relationship by promoting intellectual and cultural exchange. It does so by awarding residential fellowships to accomplished Americans in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy, as well as through programming and partnerships with organizations in the United States and Germany. The American Academy in Berlin is an independent, private, non-partisan center."

Official Website:
http://www.americanacademy.de/

Location:
Berlin, Germany

Founding Date:
1997

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John P. Birkelund Business 23-Jun-1930 Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98

Stephen B. Burbank Educator c. 1946 UPenn Law Professor

Gahl Hodges Burt Socialite ? Nancy Reagan's social secretary, 1983-85

Caroline Bynum Historian 1941 Medieval historian

Gerhard Casper Educator 25-Dec-1937 President of Stanford University, 1992-2000

Thomas L. Farmer Attorney 26-Jul-1923 5-Feb-2015 Overseas Development Council

Julie Finley Socialite c. 1938 US Ambassador to the OSCE

Vartan Gregorian Educator 8-Apr-1934 President of Carnegie Corporation

Karl M. von der Heyden Business ? Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001

Richard C. Holbrooke Diplomat 24-Apr-1941 13-Dec-2010 US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan

Josef Joffe Editor 15-Mar-1944 Editor of Die Zeit

Henry Kissinger Government 27-May-1923 US Secretary of State, 1973-77

John Kornblum Diplomat 6-Feb-1943 US Ambassador to Germany, 1997-2001

James Mann Author 18-Sep-1946 Rise of the Vulcans

Diane McWhorter Journalist 1-Nov-1952 Carry Me Home

Norman Pearlstine Journalist 4-Oct-1942 Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief

David M. Rubenstein Business c. 1949 Director of the Carlyle Group

Amity Shlaes Columnist 1960 The Forgotten Man

Fritz Stern Historian 2-Feb-1926 German historian

Richard von Weizsäcker Head of State 15-Apr-1920 31-Jan-2015 President of Germany, 1984-94

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