ABOUT THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY

The Council and Its Mission ..............................................................................................Page 1

A Message from the Chairman and the Acting President .................................................Page 2

POLICY PROGRAMS

2014 Calendar of Events ...................................................................................................Page 4

Policy Conferences ........................................................................................................Page 7

Eric M. Warburg Chapters .................................................................................................Page 8

Study Tours .....................................................................................................................Page 17

PROGRAMS FOR THE SUCCESSOR GENERATION

American-German Young Leaders Conference ...............................................................Page 19

Fellowships .....................................................................................................................Page 22

IN FOCUS: MARKING THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

The ACG Marks the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall ..........................................Page 24

Publications .....................................................................................................................Page 25

PARTNERS IN PROMOTING TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION

John J. McCloy Awards Dinner ........................................................................................Page 26

Corporate Membership Program ....................................................................................Page 28

Co-Sponsors and Collaborating Organizations ................................................................Page 29

Roster of Individual Members .........................................................................................Page 30

Foundation and Individual Support ................................................................................Page 32

Officers, Directors, and Staff ...........................................................................................Page 33

Table of Contents

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The American Council on Germany (ACG) is

an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit

organization that 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 New York toencourage reconciliation and understanding followingthe two disastrous wars in the first half of the 20thcentury. Among its early leaders were John J. and EllenMcCloy, General Lucius D. Clay, Christopher Emmet,Joseph Kaskell, George N. Shuster, and Eric M. Warburg.Because of their vision of transatlantic cooperation, theCouncil has served as a key bridge between Germany andthe United States for more than 60 years. In the 21stcentury, transatlantic cooperation on a range of globaleconomic, political, and social issues is more importantthan ever. As the European Union continues to evolve,the ACG provides Americans with a better understandingof Europe as a whole.

Through its range of programs and outreach activities,the American Council on Germany anticipates emergingchallenges for the transatlantic relationship andencourages innovative approaches to problem solving.The ACG supports the open exchange of views and buildspersonal networks among leaders on both sides of theAtlantic by:

• convening regular policy discussions in New YorkCity, Washington, D.C., and at its 19 Eric M. WarburgChapters throughout the United States to informindividuals about German and European affairs as wellas global challenges that Europe and the United Statesare facing;

• identifying leaders from the successor generation onboth sides of the Atlantic to engage in American-German Young Leaders Conferences;

• organizing high-level policy conferences and StudyTours in Europe and the United States on importantpolitical and economic issues;

• awarding fellowships to American and German mid-career professionals from various fields, includingagriculture, journalism, and urban affairs, along withacademia and entrepreneurship, to enable them toconduct research and collaborate with theirprofessional counterparts; and

• distributing Occasional Papers on a range of issuesaffecting the transatlantic relationship to more than1,000 individuals and other timely news content tomembers.

The Council and Its Mission

A session of the American-German Young Leaders Conference

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The year 2014 was a time of intensity inthe German-American relationship andat the American Council on Germany.The worsening crisis in Ukraine putGermany and Chancellor Angela Merkelat the center of the world stage. Efforts onboth sides of the Atlantic were directedtoward finding a solution withoutcreating a rift between the United Statesand Europe. The Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership (TTIP)negotiations continued, but hopes tohammer out a deal on a “single tank ofgas” (as Vice President Joe Bidenadvocated) appeared to be fleeting. Thelandscape of energy issues saw dramaticchanges, as falling oil prices gaveconsumers relief at the pump whilefueling volatility in the global economicoutlook. The transatlantic relationshipwas also still feeling the reverberationsfrom the NSA revelations.

By year’s end, the ACG had held 30discussion programs in New York Cityalone, along with more than 120 events atits 19 Eric M. Warburg Chapters aroundthe country, including speakers onGerman-Russian-Ukrainian relations. Webrought together 47 up-and-comingprofessionals for our prestigiousAmerican-German Young LeadersConference. We also gave 25 fellows theopportunity to travel overseas to expandtheir horizons and network with theirtransatlantic counterparts. Through ourStudy Tours, we brought together 29American professionals withpolicymakers and opinion leaders inBerlin. We also held a special series ofevents marking the 25th anniversary ofthe fall of the Berlin Wall.

Behind these statistics stand qualityspeakers. Our calendar of policydiscussions included such distinguishedfigures as Ambassador Harald Braun,Permanent Representative of Germany tothe United Nations; Ambassador John B.Emerson, U.S. Ambassador to Germany;and Oscar-winning filmmaker VolkerSchlöndorff. German Consul General inNew York Brita Wagener andAmbassador Paula Dobrianskyparticipated in our Transatlantic GlobalAgenda lecture series.

The theme of our American-GermanYoung Leaders Conference asked asobering question: “Unconscious

A Message from the Chairman and the Acting President

Ambassador Robert M. KimmittChairman

William R. HarmanActing President

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Uncoupling: Are the U.S. and EuropeStill in a Relationship?” As delegates met– often until the wee hours – to discussthe nuances of the complex relationship,one expert on bilateral ties quipped that“Germany and the United States stillhave a relationship, but the U.S. issleeping on the couch.” Still, delegatesworked hard to build bridges – andlasting relationships – during their weekin Berlin. One alumna wrote afterwardthat the experience “will forever shapemy interest, understanding, andcommitment to German-Americanrelations.” We also brought Young Leaderalumni together throughout the year forvarious events.

Our policy conferences in 2014 looked atthe current state of transatlantic relationsand the cutting edge of technology. Ourannual joint conference with theAtlantik-Brücke took the more optimistictack of “Restoring Trust: The Future ofthe Transatlantic Partnership.” Sen.Christopher M. Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the SenateCommittee on Foreign Relations,delivered the keynote speech, whichfocused on the importance of the bilateralrelationship. Other speakers includedAmbassador Peter Wittig, GermanAmbassador to the United States;Norbert Röttgen, Member of the GermanBundestag (CDU); Ambassador WolfgangIschinger (1978 Young Leader),Chairman of the Munich SecurityConference and Global Head ofGovernment Relations at Allianz SE; andKaren Donfried, President of the GermanMarshall Fund of the United States. Inaddition, the 2014 TransatlanticEntrepreneur Conference – “Investing,Innovating, and Collaborating in GlobalHubs: Opportunities for New York andBerlin in 2015” – convened American andGerman technology experts to explorepotential cooperation between start-ups inNew York City and Berlin. Speakersincluded Cornelia Yzer, Berlin Senator forEconomics, Technology, and Research;Consul General Brita Wagener; and SreeSreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer of theMetropolitan Museum of Art.

Throughout the year, our WarburgChapters around the country hosted anarray of events, the centerpiece of whichwas the Kissinger Transatlantic SpeakersProgram. The program was made

possible by a generous grant from theRobert Bosch Foundation to honor ACGBoard Member Dr. Henry A. Kissingeron the occasion of his 90th birthday. TheKissinger Speakers included formerEuropean Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering (1973 Young Leader);former Members of the Bundestag Hans-Ulrich Klose (SPD) and Ruprecht Polenz(CDU); Thomas Bagger, Head of PolicyPlanning at the German Federal ForeignOffice; and Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger(1985 ACG fellow), Foreign Editor at theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Our Study Tours gave two groups ofAmerican experts an in-depth look atimmigration and climate/energy issues,respectively. Study Tour delegates metwith senior officials in the FederalChancellery, the Ministry of ForeignAffairs, and the Ministry for EconomicAffairs and Energy, and they hadbreakfast briefings with Members of theBundestag from the CDU, the SPD, andthe Greens. The American participantsactively engaged with their Germanpresenters and returned to the UnitedStates with a deeper understanding ofGerman policy goals in these twocrucial areas.

Our 2014 American and German fellowsundertook overseas inquiries intoeconomic, geopolitical, social, andhistorical topics such as immigration,climate change and conservation,agricultural standards, education policy,and the International Tracing Service.McCloy Fellows in Agriculture and alsoUrban Affairs went on study trips tolearn how their transatlantic counterpartstackle issues on a local level. Our McCloyFellows, Hunt and Goldman Fellows,Kellen Fellows, and recipients of theYoung Entrepreneurs and InnovatorsFellowships returned with newperspectives and new networks alike.

Our 22nd annual John J. McCloy AwardsDinner honored Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, CEO and President of theManaging Board of TRUMPF GmbH +Co. KG, and Stephen A. Schwarzman,Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder ofBlackstone, both of whom shared theirinsights into transatlantic business, alongwith a glimpse of their humor. Anotherhighlight of the dinner was a livelyinterview with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

and German Defense Minister Ursulavon der Leyen by Jim Hoagland of TheWashington Post, providing guests with aworld tour of pressing issues.

2014 was also a time of transition for theACG. On October 31, ACG PresidentWilliam M. Drozdiak stepped downafter almost 10 years of service torelocate to Washington, D.C. While apresidential search was conducted, ACGTreasurer and Board Member WilliamR. Harman stepped in as the Council’sActing President.

With 2015 upon us, the new ACGPresident will soon announce theCouncil’s priorities for the coming year.As this annual report went to print,transatlantic allies were working hard toprevent Ukraine from sinking into evendeeper chaos; wrestling with how to copewith the terrorism of ISIS; and assessingnext steps en route to a TTIP agreement.We at the ACG will endeavor to do ourpart to reinforce German-Americanrelations and to help members andfriends better understand the geopoliticaland economic forces of the day.Maintaining and strengthening theGerman-American relationship isessential for peace and security – not only in our own regions but indeedaround the world.

March 2015

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January 27 – Address by Ambassador John B. Emerson, U.S.Ambassador to Germany, and panel discussion with 2013Entrepreneur Fellows Simon Bungers,Markus Gilles, andBenjamin Wüstenhagen on “Expanding Entrepreneurship:Capitalizing on American-German Synergy” at the EuropeanSchool of Management and Technology in Berlin, held incooperation with the JFK Atlantic Forum

February 4 – Discussion and luncheon with Peter Beyer,Member of the German Bundestag (CDU), on “Restoring Trustin German-American Relations,” held in cooperation with theKonrad Adenauer Foundation and hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP

February 21 – Discussion and luncheon with GabrielFelbermayr, Director of the Ifo Center for InternationalEconomics and Professor of Economics at the University ofMunich, on “TTIP: The Economic Effects of a TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership,” hosted by Sidley Austin LLP

February 25 – Discussion and luncheon with Roya Hakakian,Author of Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, discussing her newbook, with an introduction by Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel,former U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues,held in cooperation with American Friends of Bucerius andhosted by Alston & Bird LLP as part of the 2014 TransatlanticGlobal Agenda Series

March 5 – Discussion and luncheon with Spencer Boyer,Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relationsand Visiting Scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of AdvancedInternational Studies, on “Current Immigration and IntegrationDebates in Germany and the United States: What We Can Learnfrom Each Other,” held in cooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston & Bird LLP as part of the 2014Transatlantic Global Agenda Series

March 13 – Discussion and breakfast with Ulrike Guérot,Senior Associate for Germany at the Open Society Initiative forEurope, on “Germany and the European Union – Changes Afterthe Elections and the Challenges Ahead,” hosted by HodgsonRuss LLP

March 13 – Discussion and luncheon with Ambassador John B.Emerson, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, on “The Future ofTransatlantic Partnerships,” hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP inWashington, D.C.

March 31 – Annual Meeting of the Members, featuring adiscussion and reception with then-Ambassador-designateHarald Braun, Permanent Representative of Germany to theUnited Nations

April 7 – Discussion and luncheon with Guido Westerwelle,former German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and founderof the Westerwelle Foundation for International Understanding,with remarks also by Bertram Brossardt, CEO of bayme vbmand CEO of vbw, held in cooperation with vbw – The BavarianIndustry Association and bayme vbm – The Bavarian Employers’Associations for the Metalworking and Electrical Industries

April 8 – Discussion and luncheon with Alexander Privitera,Senior Fellow and Director of the Business and EconomicsProgram at the American Institute for Contemporary German

2014 Calendar of Events

Birgit Kurtz, Director at Gibbons P.C. (then of Crowell & Moring

LLP); speaker Peter Beyer, Member of the German Bundestag;

William M. Drozdiak, then ACG President; and Lars Haensel, Director

of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

ACG Board Member Alan S. MacDonald, Chief Client Officer at Citi-

group Inc.; William M. Drozdiak, then ACG President; speaker Berend

Diekmann, Head of Division, External Economic Policy for the U.S.,

Canada, Mexico, G8/G20, OECD, at the Ministry for Economic Affairs

and Energy; and ACG Acting President William R. Harman (left to right)

Speaker Carl-Ludwig Thiele (right), Member of the Executive Board

of the Deutsche Bundesbank, with (from left) ACG Board Member

Paul Stewart Atkins, Chief Executive of Patomak Global Partners, LLC;

Ian P. Murray (1993 Young Leader), Managing Partner at Lanexa

Global Management, GP, LLC; and Ambassador Nicholas Emiliou,

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus of the Mission

to the United Nations

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Studies, on “Back to the Future: The Ukraine Crisis IsGermany’s Biggest Foreign Policy Challenge Since the ColdWar,” held in cooperation with American Friends of Bucerius andhosted by Alston & Bird LLP as part of the 2014 TransatlanticGlobal Agenda Series

April 9 – Discussion and breakfast with Russ Carnahan, Partnerat Carnahan Global Consulting and former U.S. Representativefor Missouri; Gil Gutknecht, Advisory Board Member of SecureSymbology, Inc., and former U.S. Representative for Minnesota;Hans-Ulrich Klose, former Chairman of the German-AmericanParliamentary Group and former Bundestag Member; andHarald Leibrecht, President of the Board of Directors of CEPAFoundation and former Bundestag Member, on “The GrowingTransatlantic Agenda: From the TTIP to the Ukraine Crisis –With a Stopover in the Middle East,” hosted by Alston & BirdLLP, with special thanks to the Congressional Study Group onGermany

April 22 – Discussion and breakfast with Klaus-DieterFrankenberger, Foreign Editor at the Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung, on “Who Is Leading on Russia,” hosted by Crowell &Moring LLP

April 30-May 1 – German-American Conference on “RestoringTrust: The Future of the Transatlantic Partnership,” held incooperation with the Atlantik-Brücke, in Washington, D.C.

May 1-3 – American-German Young Leaders Reunion on“Security in a Changing World” in Leesburg, Virginia, held incooperation with the Atlantik-Brücke

May 13 – Discussion and luncheon with Lily Gardner Feldman,Harry and Helen Gray Senior Fellow at the American Institutefor Contemporary German Studies, on “Germany as Model andMediator for Northeast Asian Conflicts,” held in cooperationwith American Friends of Bucerius and hosted by Alston & BirdLLP as part of the 2014 Transatlantic Global Agenda Series

May 14 – Discussion and breakfast with Stefan Kornelius,Foreign Editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, on “The New GermanDilemma,” hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP

May 16 – American-German Young Leaders Reunion in Berlinand discussion and reception with Peter G. Harf, CEO ofAgnaten SE, on “Investment Strategy for Consumer Goods in anUncertain World,” hosted by Allianz Forum

May 18-22 – Study Tour on Immigration in Berlin

May 21 – American-German Young Leaders reception withBusso von Alvensleben, then German Consul General in NewYork, at his residence

June 17 – Twenty-Second annual John J. McCloy Awards Dinner,honoring Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, CEO and Presidentof the Managing Board of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG, andStephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder ofBlackstone, with an interview with former Secretary of State andACG Board Member Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and GermanDefense Minister Ursula von der Leyen by Jim Hoagland of TheWashington Post

June 18 – Panel discussion and breakfast with Ralph Brinkhaus,Bundestag Member and Vice Chairman of the CDU/CSUParliamentary Group; Julieta Noyes, Deputy Assistant Secretary

Transatlantic Global Agenda Series

The Transatlantic Global Agenda Series was started in 2011by the American Council on Germany and AmericanFriends of Bucerius, with events generously hosted byAlston & Bird LLP. The impetus for the program was therecognition that the dialogue between Germany and theUnited States can no longer be focused on bilateral issuesalone. In 2014, eight programs were held on topicsincluding the Middle East, Ukraine, dealing withextremism, immigration and integration, and humanitarianinvolvement in conflict situations. This successful seriesshows the importance of the German-Americanrelationship as both nations partner together to tackleimportant global issues.

Speaker Hans-Gert Pöttering (1973 Young Leader), former President

of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer

Foundation; Marcus Ehrhardt, Partner at PwC Strategy& (US) LLC;

Consul General of Germany in New York Brita Wagener; and ACG

Acting President William R. Harman

Speaker Christopher M. Schroeder (1991 Young Leader) (right), ACG

Board Member and Internet Investor, and ACG Board Member

Joseph McLaughlin, Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP

January 24 – Discussion and breakfast,hostedby

Crowell&MoringLLP,with

Ambassador 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 atthe Center forAmericanProgress, on “ANew Way toLook at ForeignPolicy: ComplexCrisis Scenariosin the 21stCentury,” held incooperation withAmerican

Friends of Buceriusand hosted byAlston + Bird LLPas part of theTransatlanticGlobal Agenda

Series

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: Harnessing

High-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 the21st 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 ofState; Jens Hanefeld, Minister and DeputyChief of Mission at the German Embassy in

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in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S.Department of State; Bruce Stokes, Director of Global EconomicAttitudes at the Pew Research Center; and David Talbot, SeniorDirector for International Government Affairs at Lilly Bio-Medicines, on “A Transatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership: Can the United States and Europe Lead the Way toGlobal Economic Recovery?” moderated by William M.Drozdiak, then President of the ACG

July 2 – Discussion and luncheon with Carl-Ludwig Thiele,Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, on“Germany, the Euro, and Europe,” hosted by Crowell & Moring LLP

August 10-15 – XXXVI American-German Young LeadersConference in Berlin on “Unconscious Uncoupling: Are the U.S.and Europe Still in a Relationship?”

September 2-4 – Transatlantic Entrepreneur Conference on“Investing, Innovating, and Collaborating in Global Hubs:Opportunities for New York and Berlin in 2015”

September 9 – Discussion and luncheon with AmbassadorPaula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s BelferCenter and a former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs,on “Ukraine’s Future: Challenges and Opportunities,” held incooperation with American Friends of Bucerius and hosted byAlston & Bird LLP as part of the 2014 Transatlantic GlobalAgenda Series

September 19 – Discussion and luncheon with Ivan Vejvoda,Senior Vice President of Programs at the German Marshall Fundof the United States, on the Transatlantic Trends survey, hostedby Alston & Bird LLP

September 29 – Discussion and luncheon with BerendDiekmann, Head of Division, External Economic Policy for theU.S., Canada, Mexico, G8/G20, OECD, at the German Ministryfor Economic Affairs and Energy, on “The Transatlantic Tradeand Investment Partnership – Current Challenges,” as part of the2014 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic Speakers Program,hosted by Citi

September 30 – Discussion and luncheon with Internet Investorand ACG Board Member Christopher M. Schroeder (1991Young Leader) on his book, Startup Rising: The EntrepreneurialRevolution Remaking the Middle East

September 30 – Discussion and reception with Author PeterSchneider on his book Berlin Now: The City After the Wall, held incooperation with Deutsches Haus at NYU

October 10 – Discussion and luncheon with Hans-Gert Pöttering(1973 Young Leader), Chairman of the Konrad AdenauerFoundation and former President of the European Parliament, on“The European Perspective: Values, Policies, and Economy,” aspart of the 2014 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic SpeakersProgram, hosted by PwC Strategy& (US) LLC

October 14 – Discussion and breakfast with Brita Wagener,Consul General of Germany in New York, on “German Policy onthe Middle East,” held in cooperation with American Friends ofBucerius and hosted by Alston & Bird LLP as part of the 2014Transatlantic Global Agenda Series

October 16 – Discussion and luncheon with filmmaker VolkerSchlöndorff – titled “Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy: ADialogue with Volker Schlöndorff” – as part of the 2014 Dr.Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic Speakers Program, hosted byHerrick Feinstein LLP

October 20 – Discussion and luncheon with Ambassador RobertM. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel at WilmerHale andACG Chairman, on “The Fall of 1989: An Insider Looks Back,”hosted by Alston & Bird LLP

October 22 – Discussion and breakfast with Arne Schönbohm,President of Cyber-Security Council Germany e.V., on“Implications of the NSA Data Security Issue for Politics andBusiness,” held in cooperation with Deutsches Haus at NYU

October 31 – Discussion and luncheon with Berlin-based lawyerMehmet Daimgüler and Alexander Pyka, founder and BoardMember of the Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs andInternational Relations (IFAIR), on “State Accountability:Dealing with Neo-Nazi Extremism,” held in cooperation withAmerican Friends of Bucerius and hosted by Alston & Bird LLPas part of the 2014 Transatlantic Global Agenda Series

November 3 – Discussion and luncheon with David Miliband,President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, on“Decade of Disorder: A Humanitarian View,” held in cooperationwith American Friends of Bucerius and hosted by Alston & BirdLLP as part of the 2014 Transatlantic Global Agenda Series

December 2 – Garrick Utley Memorial Lecture on Global MediaIssues and luncheon with Josef Joffe, Editor of DIE ZEIT, on“One Hundred Years of Consequences: The Strategic, Political,and Cultural Legacy of World War I,” with special thanks to ACGVice Chairman Richard M. Hunt for making this series possible

December 7-12 – Study Tour on Climate and Energy Issues inBerlin

2014 Calendar of Events (Continued)

Karl Geercken (1996 Young Leader), Partner at Alston & Bird LLP;

speaker Ivan Vejvoda, Senior Vice President of Programs at the

German Marshall Fund of the United States; and Kai Hennig, Deputy

Consul General of Germany in New York (left to right)

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“Restoring Trust: The Future of the Transatlantic

Partnership”

The American Council on Germany and the Atlantik-Brückeconvened a two-day conference on “Restoring Trust: TheFuture of the Transatlantic Partnership” on April 30 and May 1,2014, in Washington, D.C. More than 150 Americans andGermans attended this series of lively discussions on the currentstate of the transatlantic relationship. With much focus on theNSA revelations and the Transatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership (TTIP), the conference also covered topics such as cyber-security, energy, and the U.S.-German partnershipmore widely.

Welcoming addresses were given by Ambassador Robert M.Kimmitt, ACG Chairman; Friedrich Merz, Chairman of theAtlantik-Brücke; and Ambassador Peter Wittig, GermanAmbassador to the United States. Senator Christopher M.Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the Senate Committeeon Foreign Relations, delivered a keynote speech on theimportance of the relationship between the United States andGermany. Karen Donfried, President of the German MarshallFund of the United States – formerly Special Assistant to thePresident and Senior Director for European Affairs at theNational Security Council – discussed the effects of the NSAissue and the Ukraine crisis on transatlantic relations.

Other speakers included Ambassador John B. Emerson, U.S.Ambassador to Germany; Jane Harman, Director, President,and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center forScholars; Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger (1978 YoungLeader), Chairman of the Munich Security Conference andGlobal Head of Government Relations at Allianz SE; andNorbert Röttgen, Member of the German Bundestag (CDU).

American-German Young Leader Alumni Reunion:

“Security in a Changing World”

From May 1 to 3, 2014, Young Leader alumni from theAmerican Council on Germany and the Atlantik-Brücke joinedtogether for a conference of networking, team building, andtransatlantic exchange. The conference, titled “Security in aChanging World,” was held in Leesburg, Virginia, and wasattended by more than 70 Young Leader alumni. During thecourse of the three days, alumni had the opportunity to engagein discussions and global scenario planning. The group focusedon the globalization of corporations and governance issues,disaster relief, and integration and assimilation issues. The goalof the activities was to find solutions to future challenges in aglobalized world.

2014 Transatlantic Entrepreneur Conference:

“Investing, Innovating, and Collaborating in Global

Hubs: Opportunities for New York and Berlin in 2015”

The American Council on Germany, in cooperation with NewYork International, Berlin Partners, and the German AmericanChamber of Commerce, sponsored the annual TransatlanticEntrepreneur Conference in New York City from September 2to 4, 2014. This conference – “Investing, Innovating, andCollaborating in Global Hubs: Opportunities for New York andBerlin in 2015” – brought together more than 100 American andGerman technology experts for three days of meetings onpotential cooperation between start-ups in New York City andBerlin. Speakers included Sree Sreenivasan, Chief DigitalOfficer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brita Wagener,Consul General of Germany in New York; and Cornelia Yzer,Berlin Senator for Economics, Technology, and Research. Inaddition to lively panel discussions and keynote speeches,participants had the opportunity to visit start-ups in Brooklynand Queens. On the final day of the conference, participantstook part in matchmaking between New York investors andBerlin start-ups.

Policy Conferences

Panelists Peter Beyer, Member of the German Bundestag;

Ambassador John B. Emerson, U.S. Ambassador to Germany; and

Daniel Hamilton, Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at

the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns

Hopkins University; moderator Tina Hassel, Chief Correspondent and

Chief Reporter in Washington, D.C., for ARD-TV; and panelists Roland

Koch, Chairman of the Executive Board of Bilfinger SE and former

Minister-President of Hesse; and former ACG Board Member John

Lipsky, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of

Advanced International Studies, at the conference on “Restoring

Trust: The Future of the Transatlantic Partnership”

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The American Council on Germany’s Eric M. WarburgChapters were created in 1992 in order to promote transatlanticdialogue across the United States, beyond the businesscommunity in New York and the policy community inWashington, D.C. Named after ACG founder and longtimeTreasurer Eric M. Warburg, there are currently 19 Chapters.This unique network provides ACG members and localaudiences with a dynamic forum to discuss economic, political,and social issues that are important to German-American andwider transatlantic relations. The Warburg Chaptersprogrammed more than 120 events around the country in 2014– the largest number yet. These programs focused on manytimely topics, including the Transatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership (TTIP), the NSA revelations, the fall of the BerlinWall, ISIS, Russia and Ukraine, and the eurozone crisis.

In early 2014, the ACG was pleased to bring together Chapterleaders for a Chapter Directors Conference to discuss the futureof the Eric M. Warburg Chapters and the upcoming year ofprograms. ACG Board Member Marie M. Warburg joined thegroup and gave a touching speech on her father’s legacy and theimportance of the transatlantic partnership to him.

Throughout the year, many prominent figures spoke at theChapters, including Philipp Ackermann, Minister and DeputyChief of Mission at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.;Volker Bausch, Director of the Point Alpha Foundation;German Bundestag Member Peter Beyer (CDU); ProfessorKurt Biedenkopf, former Prime Minister of Saxony;Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, former U.S. Ambassador andSpecial Envoy for Holocaust Issues; Professor GabrielFelbermayr, Director of the Ifo Center for InternationalEconomics; Bernd Fischer (1977 American-German YoungLeader), Consul General of Germany in Los Angeles; MarcoOverhaus (2011-13 Tripartite Young Leader), Associate for EUExternal Relations at the German Institute for Internationaland Security Affairs (SWP); Author Peter Schneider; HolgerStark, Senior Correspondent at Der Spiegel; and AmbassadorKurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute forInternational Leadership.

The centerpiece of the 2014 programming was the Dr. Henry A.Kissinger Transatlantic Speakers Program. This series includedspeakers Thomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning at theGerman Federal Foreign Office; Berend Diekmann, Head ofDivision, External Economic Policy for the U.S., Canada,Mexico, G8/G20, OECD, at the German Ministry for EconomicAffairs and Energy; Andreas Dombret, Member of theExecutive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank; Klaus-DieterFrankenberger, Foreign Editor at the Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung; Ulrike Guérot, Senior Fellow for Germany at the OpenSociety Initiative for Europe; Jürgen Hardt, Coordinator ofTransatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office; Hans-

Ulrich Klose, former Chairman of the German-AmericanParliamentary Group in the Bundestag; Stefan Kornelius,Foreign and Editorial Page Editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung;Ambassador Thomas Matussek, Managing Director of theHerrhausen Foundation; Ruprecht Polenz, former Member ofthe Bundestag and President of the German Society for EasternEuropean Studies; Hans-Gert Pöttering (1973 American-German Young Leader), former President of the EuropeanParliament and Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation;filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff; and Constanze Stelzenmüller,Senior Transatlantic Fellow and Director of TransatlanticTrends at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

The number of programs at the Chapters in 2014 shows thetremendous interest of people across the nation in issuesrelating to the transatlantic relationship. As Germany and theUnited States remain close partners at the global level, the ACGis more committed than ever to promote this dialogue across thecountry through its network of Chapters.

Eric M. Warburg Chapters

Speaker Peter Schneider, Author of Berlin Now: The City After the

Wall, meeting with the Charlotte Warburg Chapter

Andre Fiebig of Quarles & Brady LLP; Deputy Consul General of

Germany Mario Soos; Chicago Warburg Chapter Director John D.

Gatto; speaker Ruprecht Polenz, former Bundestag Member and

President of the German Society for Eastern European Studies; and

Consul General Herbert Quelle (left to right)

Alexandria, 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

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2014 Calendar of Warburg Chapter Events

January 24-26 – Warburg Chapter Directors Conference inSan Diego

February 6 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event on “Lawyers WithoutRights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany After 1933,” heldin cooperation with the Dallas Bar Association – Legal HistoryDiscussion Group, Anti-Defamation League, American JewishCommittee, Dallas Holocaust Museum, and German ConsulGeneral in Houston, sponsored by Temple Shalom

February 6 – St. Louis Warburg Chapter event with a Stuttgartdelegation, headed by Mayor Isabelle Fezer, Head of Youth,Social Services, and Health, and Frederic Stephan, Head of theExternal Relations Department, held in cooperation withSusanne Evens, President of St. Louis-Stuttgart Sister Citiesand sponsored by the Schlafly Tap Room

February 11 – Madison Warburg Chapter event withAmbassador J.D. Bindenagel, former U.S. Ambassador andSpecial Envoy for Holocaust Issues, on “The Story of the‘Portrait of Wally’ by Egon Schiele and the WashingtonPrinciples on Nazi-Confiscated Art,” sponsored by theUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison Center for German andEuropean Studies and the University of Wisconsin – MadisonDepartment of Art History

February 17 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter discussion of“One Book, Two Cities” selection in Vienna by Eva Menasse,held in cooperation with the Indianapolis-Cologne Sister CityCommittee and sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Library

February 18 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event with ProfessorGabriel Felbermayr, Director of the Ifo Center forInternational Economics, on “TTIP: The Economic Effects of aTransatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership,” held incooperation with the German American Chamber of Commerceof the Southern U.S., Inc., and the Dallas Committee on ForeignRelations, and sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

February 19 – Special event in Houston, held in cooperationwith the Dallas Warburg Chapter, with Professor GabrielFelbermayr on “TTIP: The Economic Effects of a TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership,” held in cooperation withthe German American Chamber of Commerce of the SouthernU.S., Inc., the World Affairs Council of Houston, and theFrench-American Chamber of Commerce, and sponsored by theFederal Reserve Bank – Houston Branch

February 19 – San Diego Warburg Chapter SecondRoundtable on German Culture with the Balboa ParkCentennial 2015 Team, held in cooperation with the HonoraryConsul General of Germany in San Diego, Stephan Hollmann,

and the German American San Diego Foundation, andsponsored by Duane Morris LLP

February 20 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter event with ProfessorGabriel Felbermayr on “Globalized Labor: The Impact onEurope and the U.S.,” held in cooperation with the GermanAmerican Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc., TheHalle Foundation, and the World Affairs Council of Atlanta

February 23 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter concert titled “AnHour withManahem Pressler,” Pianist and Professor at theIndiana University Jacobs School of Music, held in cooperationwith the Foundation for Lutheran Child and Family Servicesand sponsored by St. Thomas Lutheran Church

February 26 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter event with GermanBundestag Member Peter Beyer (CDU) – titled “A Discussionon Transatlantic Relations” – held in cooperation with theGerman American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S.,Inc., and The Halle Foundation

February 27 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with JürgenRüttgers, former Federal Minister of Education, Science,Research, and Technology and former Prime Minister of NorthRhine-Westphalia, on “Rebuilding Trust: Current Challenges inthe Transatlantic Relationship,” held in cooperation with theKonrad Adenauer Foundation

March 10 – St. Louis Warburg Chapter event with Beatriz Ruf,Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Zürich, and AmySadao, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on “CAM in Context:The Non-Collecting Museum,” sponsored by the ContemporaryArt Museum in St. Louis

March 18 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter event with HolgerStark, Senior Correspondent at Der Spiegel, on “The NSAAffair: A Deep Rift in the Transatlantic Relationship,” held incooperation with Honorary German Consul Klaus Becker andsponsored by GreerWalker LLP

March 19 – Boca Raton Warburg Chapter event with MarcoOverhaus (2011-13 Tripartite Young Leader), Associate for EUExternal Relations at the German Institute for Internationaland Security Affairs (SWP), on “European Security and DefensePolicy and the Future of Transatlantic Cooperation,” as part ofProfessor Aimee Kanner Arias’ (2011-13 Tripartite YoungLeader) class on European comparative politics at FloridaAtlantic University, sponsored by Florida Atlantic University

March 19 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with AmbassadorRyszard Schnepf, Polish Ambassador to the United States, on“Central and Eastern Europe – 25 Years Later,” held incooperation with the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations

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March 20 – Denver Warburg Chapter event with MarcoOverhaus on “Germany’s Security and Defense Policy –Prospects Under the New Grand Coalition”

March 20 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter events with BerndFischer (1977 American-German Young Leader), GermanConsul General in Los Angeles, on “How Germany and EuropeMatter for Arizona,” held in cooperation with the PhoenixCommittee on Foreign Relations, the Diplomatic Corps, andSanford Rose Associates

March 21 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter event withMarco Overhaus on “Germany’s Security and Defense Policy –Prospects Under the New Grand Coalition,” held in cooperationwith the German-American Chamber of Commerce of theMidwest, Minneapolis Chapter, and the Germanic-AmericanInstitute

March 21 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter Business Breakfast withBernd Fischer

March 24 – Boca Raton Warburg Chapter event with WilliamM. Drozdiak, then President of the American Council onGermany, on “Restoring Trust in the German-AmericanPartnership,” sponsored by Florida Atlantic University

March 25 – Boston Warburg Chapter joint session of theTransatlantic Relations Seminar and the Future of the EuropeanUnion Study Group with Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, Directorof Research at Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques,Paris; Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor in Political Scienceand Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University; andAmbassador Klaus Scharioth, Professor of Practice at theFletcher School and former German Ambassador to the UnitedStates, on “Convergence and Consensus on TransatlanticSecurity Policy: A Perspective from Paris”

March 26 – Philadelphia Warburg Chapter event withAmbassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCainInstitute for International Leadership, on “A Positive Agendafor Improving U.S.-European Relations”

April 5-9 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter support of“Deciphering the ‘New’ Antisemitism: An InternationalScholars’ Conference,” held in cooperation with the Institute forthe Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana Universityand Indiana University Press

April 8 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event with Wilhelm vonBoddien, Managing Director of the Förderverein BerlinerSchloss e.V., on “Berliner Stadtschloss,” held in cooperationwith the Dallas Goethe Center and the German ConsulateGeneral in Houston

April 15 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event with AndreasDombret, Member of the Executive Board of the DeutscheBundesbank, held in cooperation with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc., and theDallas Committee on Foreign Relations, and sponsored by theFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas

April 15 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter Bundestag Memberdelegation dinner hosted by Consul General Peter Rothen, heldin cooperation with the American Chamber of Commerce andHewlett-Packard

April 21 – San Diego Warburg Chapter event with Tom Felber,Journalist and Chairman of the Spiel des Jahres (Game of theYear) Jury, held in cooperation with the German American SanDiego Foundation and sponsored by Duane Morris LLP

April 22 – Denver Warburg Chapter event with Volker Bausch,Director of the Point Alpha Foundation, on “Point Alpha atFreedom’s Frontier – Cold War Hot Spot in the Fulda Gap,Landmark of American Military Commitment, and Symbol ofGerman Unity”

April 23 – Philadelphia Warburg Chapter event with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor at the FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung, on “Putin’s Russia Reset,” held in cooperationwith the German American Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia

April 23 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter event with Volker Bauschon “Point Alpha at Freedom’s Frontier – Cold War Hot Spot inthe Fulda Gap, Landmark of American Military Commitment,and Symbol of German Unity,” held in cooperation with theGerman Air Force Squadron at Luke Air Force Base

April 25 – San Diego Warburg Chapter event with VolkerBausch on “Point Alpha at Freedom’s Frontier – Cold War HotSpot in the Fulda Gap, Landmark of American MilitaryCommitment, and Symbol of German Unity,” sponsored byDuane Morris LLP

April 29 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with KonstantinVoessing, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda deGunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University,on “Political Elites and Public Opinion About EuropeanIntegration,” held in cooperation with the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies

April 29 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter Holocaust Liturgy –titled “Night Words” – sponsored by the Arthur M. GlickJewish Community Center

May 1 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with Carina Schmitt,John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies at Harvard University, on “Selling

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Off the Family Silver? The Privatization of Public Utilities inEurope,” held in cooperation with the Minda de GunzburgCenter for European Studies

May 1 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter event with VolkerBausch, Director of the Point Alpha Foundation, on “PointAlpha at Freedom’s Frontier – Cold War Hot Spot in the FuldaGap, Landmark of American Military Commitment, andSymbol of German Unity,” held in cooperation with theGoethe-Institut San Francisco and sponsored by PillsburyWinthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

May 5 – Madison Warburg Chapter event with Volker Bauschon “Point Alpha at Freedom’s Frontier – Cold War Hot Spot inthe Fulda Gap, Landmark of American Military Commitment,and Symbol of German Unity,” held in cooperation with theMadison Committee on Foreign Relations and the University ofWisconsin – Madison Center for German and European Studies

May 6 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter event with a businessdelegation from the Karlsruhe Chamber of Industry andCommerce and the German State of Baden-Württemberg, with akeynote speech by Lee Mazzocchi, Senior Vice President andChief Information and Innovation Officer of Duke Energy, Inc.,on “Perspectives on the Utility of the Future,” held incooperation with Deloitte and Wells Fargo

Events with blue dates were part of the Kissinger Transatlantic Speakers Program.

May 11 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter small group dinner withConstanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow andDirector of Transatlantic Trends at the German Marshall Fundof the United States

May 12 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter breakfast event withConstanze Stelzenmüller, held in cooperation with the WorldAffairs Council of Pittsburgh

May 12 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter school visit byConstanze Stelzenmüller to Winchester Thurston School tospeak with AP history classes on the situation in Ukraine andits impact on Europe

May 12 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter discussion and luncheonwith Constanze Stelzenmüller on “Europe’s WatershedMoment: What the Conflict in Ukraine Means for Europe, theUnited States, and Relations with Russia,” held in cooperationwith the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

May 12 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter event with ConstanzeStelzenmüller with alumni of ACG and German Marshall Fund

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic

Speakers Program

The American Council on Germany created the KissingerTransatlantic Speakers Program in honor of longtime ACGBoard Member Dr. Henry A. Kissinger in 2013 tocommemorate his 90th birthday. Through the program,noteworthy Germans – whether established personalities orrising stars – come to the United States to engage indiscussions at several Warburg Chapters, typically for one totwo weeks. The program is made possible by a generous grantfrom the Robert Bosch Foundation implemented in 2014.

The Kissinger Transatlantic Speakers Program provides anopportunity for Americans at the 19 Warburg Chaptersaround the United States – particularly Young Leaders andfellows who have passed through ACG and Bosch programs– to learn about new developments in Germany andEurope from distinguished speakers. It also enablesKissinger Speakers to learn about perspectives in theAmerican heartland from their interactions with WarburgChapter audiences.

The speaker tours pay tribute to Dr. Kissinger’sachievements as a statesman, his insightful books on foreignaffairs, and his lifetime of service promoting postwarreconciliation between the United States and Germany.Former Federal Reserve Chairman and ACG Honorary ViceChairman Paul A. Volcker may have put it best when hepresented Dr. Kissinger with the ACG’s McCloy LifetimeAchievement Award in 2011: Mr. Volcker told Dr. Kissingerhe was being honored “for your loyalty to your adoptedcountry, your ability to heal wounds among old enemies,your strategic vision, your persistent effort to seek stable andpeaceful relations in an increasingly turbulent world, andfor encouraging those of us who share those values.”

Philadelphia Warburg Chapter Director Harry Carl Schaub;

Kissinger Speaker Thomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning at the

German Federal Foreign Office; and Lindi von Mutius, then

Executive Director of the German American Chamber of

Commerce, Philadelphia

This program was made possible by the

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programs and Bosch Fellowships in attendance, hosted by PaulOverby, German Honorary Consul in Pittsburgh, and held incooperation with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

May 13 – Chicago Warburg Chapter event with StefanKornelius, Foreign and Editorial Page Editor at the SüddeutscheZeitung, on “The New German Dilemma,” sponsored byDentons US LLP

May 13 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter executive briefing atBNY Mellon with Constanze Stelzenmüller, held incooperation with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

May 14 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter event with ConstanzeStelzenmüller on “Europe and America: Can We Still WorkTogether, Or Are We Moving Apart?” sponsored by GeorgeMason University

May 14 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter discussion and dinnerwith Constanze Stelzenmüller on “Europe and America: CanWe Still Work Together, Or Are We Moving Apart?” held incooperation with the George C. Marshall International Center

May 15 – Nashville Warburg Chapter event with ConstanzeStelzenmüller on “Europe’s Watershed Moment: What theConflict in Ukraine Means for Europe, the United States, andRelations with Russia”

May 16 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with StefanKornelius, Foreign and Editorial Page Editor at the SüddeutscheZeitung, on “Europe’s New Front Lines: How the Ukraine CrisisChanges Strategic Thinking and Beyond,” held in cooperationwith the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs ofHarvard University

May 16 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter event with ConstanzeStelzenmüller on “Europe’s Watershed Moment: What theConflict in Ukraine Means for Europe, the United States, andRelations with Russia”

May 22 – Dallas Warburg Chapter German White AsparagusDinner, held in cooperation with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc.

May 27 – Nashville Warburg Chapter event with AmbassadorJ.D. Bindenagel, former U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy forHolocaust Issues, on “The Story of the ‘Portrait of Wally’ byEgon Schiele and the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art”

May 31 – Dallas Warburg Chapter support of the 60th-anniversary celebration of the establishment of the GermanConsulate in Houston

June 2 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, former U.S.Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, on “GettingPast ‘No’ on TTIP,” held in cooperation with the InternationalCenter of Indiana, the Athenaeum Foundation, and the GermanConsul General of Chicago, and sponsored by Barnes &Thornburg LLP

June 2 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter lecture and discussionwith Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel on “The Story of the‘Portrait of Wally’ by Egon Schiele and the WashingtonPrinciples on Nazi-Confiscated Art,” held in cooperation withthe Jewish Community Relations Council Indianapolis, theInternational Center of Indiana, the Athenaeum Foundation,and the German Consul General in Chicago, and sponsored bythe Jewish Community Center Indianapolis

June 4 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter event with AmbassadorJ.D. Bindenagel on “The Story of the ‘Portrait of Wally’ byEgon Schiele and the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art,” sponsored by Polsinelli PC

June 17 – Dallas Warburg Chapter discussion and luncheonwith Ulrike Guérot, Senior Fellow at the Open SocietyInitiative for Europe, on “Europe After the EP Elections: NewParliament, New Commission – New Politics?” sponsored byLocke Lord LLP

June 17 – Dallas Warburg Chapter small group dinner withUlrike Guérot

June 18 – San Diego Warburg Chapter event with WilfriedPrewo, former Chief Executive of the Chamber of Industry andCommerce in Hannover, on “The Euroland Economy After theCrisis: Stalemate or Recovery?” sponsored by Duane Morris LLP

June 19 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter event with UlrikeGuérot on “Europe and the U.S. Between NSA, TTIP, andUkraine: Common Policy or Drifting Apart?” held incooperation with the German-American Business Associationand the Bay Area Council Economic Institute

June 20 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter event with Ulrike Guéroton “Europe and the U.S. Between NSA, TTIP, and Ukraine:Common Policy or Drifting Apart?” held in cooperation withthe Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations and sponsored bySnell & Wilmer

June 23 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter event with UlrikeGuérot on “Europe and the U.S. Between NSA, TTIP, andUkraine: Common Policy or Drifting Apart?” held incooperation with Northern Virginia Community College

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June 24 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter event with Ulrike Guéroton “Europe and the U.S. Between NSA, TTIP, and Ukraine:Common Policy or Drifting Apart?”

June 25 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with Ulrike Guéroton “Europe After the EP Elections: New Parliament, NewCommission – New Politics?” sponsored by the Goethe-InstitutBoston

June 26 – Philadelphia Warburg Chapter event with UlrikeGuérot on “Europe and the U.S. Between NSA, TTIP, andUkraine: Common Policy or Drifting Apart?” held in cooperationwith the German American Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia

June 27 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter event withUlrike Guérot on “Europe and the U.S. Between NSA, TTIP,and Ukraine: Common Policy or Drifting Apart?” sponsored bythe Germanic-American Institute

September 2 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter visit to DavidsonCollege by Ambassador Thomas Matussek, ManagingDirector of Deutsche Bank’s Herrhausen Foundation, with ageneral breakfast seminar with Davidson College students andfaculty

September 2 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Ambassador Thomas Matussek on “Challengesfor U.S.-German Cooperation in a Globalized World”

September 3 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Ambassador Thomas Matussek with GeorgeMason University faculty

September 3 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter discussion andreception with Ambassador Thomas Matussek on “Challengesfor U.S.-German Cooperation in a Globalized World,” held incooperation with George Mason University and the George C.Marshall International Center

September 4 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter expert paneldiscussion on climate talks with Rob Caldwell, Senior VicePresident for Distributed Energy Resources at Duke Energy; R.Andreas Kraemer, Director of Ecologic Institute Berlin; andRobert Phocas, Energy and Sustainability Manager for the Cityof Charlotte, in cooperation with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc., and theGerman Consul General in Atlanta

September 4 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event withAmbassador Thomas Matussek on “Challenges for U.S.-German Cooperation in a Globalized World,” hosted by LockeLord LLP

September 5 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter eventwith Ambassador Thomas Matussek on “Challenges for U.S.-German Cooperation in a Globalized World,” held incooperation with the Germanic-American Institute

September 8 – St. Louis Warburg Chapter reading anddiscussion with Author Peter Schneider on his new book,Berlin Now: The City After the Wall, held in cooperation withWashington University in St. Louis

September 9 – Chicago Warburg Chapter event with PeterSchneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall, held incooperation with the Goethe-Institut Chicago

September 10 – Madison Warburg Chapter lecture and classvisit by Peter Schneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall,sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies atUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison

September 11 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter eventwith Peter Schneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall,sponsored by the Germanic-American Institute

September 15 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter event withPeter Schneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall,sponsored by the Institute for the Future

September 16 – Denver Warburg Chapter event with PeterSchneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall

September 17 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event with PeterSchneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall, held incooperation with the Rotary Club of Dallas

September 22 – Nashville Warburg Chapter event with PeterSchneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall

September 23 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter event with PeterSchneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall, held incooperation with the BMW Center for German and EuropeanStudies and the German Department at Georgetown University

September 23 – Chicago Warburg Chapter event with formerBundestag Member Ruprecht Polenz, President of the GermanSociety for Eastern European Studies, on “Germany’s Role inthe World”

September 24 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter reading anddiscussion with Peter Schneider on Berlin Now: The City Afterthe Wall at Davidson College

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September 24 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter evening discussionand reception with Peter Schneider on Berlin Now: The CityAfter the Wall, as part of the 2014 Honorary Consul Series, heldin cooperation with Honorary German Consul Klaus Beckerand hosted by Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

September 24 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter eventwith former Bundestag Member Ruprecht Polenz, President ofthe German Society for Eastern European Studies, on “ThePutin Doctrine – A Danger to Global Security,” held incooperation with the Germanic-American Institute

September 25 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter discussion withPeter Schneider with students and faculty at the University ofPittsburgh, as part of a series of events at the university on the25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

September 25 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter evening discussionand reception with Peter Schneider on Berlin Now: The CityAfter the Wall, held in cooperation with the German AmericanBusiness Circle and the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

September 26 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with PeterSchneider on Berlin Now: The City After the Wall, held incooperation with the Goethe-Institut Boston

September 29 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter discussion andbreakfast with former Bundestag Member Ruprecht Polenz,President of the German Society for Eastern European Studies,with American Jewish Committee members and GermanConsul General in San Francisco Stefan Schlüter

September 29 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Ruprecht Polenz on “Germany’s Future Role inthe World – Challenges and Opportunities in Times of BigChanges Internationally,” held in cooperation with GermanConsul General in San Francisco Stefan Schlüter

September 30 – Dallas Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Ruprecht Polenz on “The Putin Doctrine – ADanger to Global Security,” hosted by Locke Lord LLP

October 1 – Boston Warburg Chapter class discussion at BostonUniversity with Ruprecht Polenz on European-Russianrelations in recent decades

October 1 – Boston Warburg Chapter discussion and luncheonwith Ruprecht Polenz on “The Putin Doctrine – A Danger toGlobal Security,” held in cooperation with the Center for theStudy of Europe at Boston University

October 2 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter Meet & Greet withJürgen Hardt, Bundestag Member (CDU) and Coordinator of

Transatlantic Cooperation, on “The United States and Germany– Friends in Turbulent Times,” as an honorary KissingerSpeaker, held in cooperation with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., Inc.

October 2 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter school visit by formerBundestag Member Ruprecht Polenz, President of the GermanSociety for Eastern European Studies, to the Providence DaySchool Global Studies Program

October 2 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Ruprecht Polenz on “The Putin Doctrine – ADanger to Global Security,” held in cooperation with the WorldAffairs Council of Charlotte

October 2 – Chicago Warburg Chapter event with Hans-GertPöttering (1973 American-German Young Leader), Chairman ofthe Konrad Adenauer Foundation and former President of theEuropean Parliament, on “Europe: Player or Loser,” held incooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

October 3 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter special seminar andvideoconference at North Hills High School with RuprechtPolenz on “Peace in the Middle East? A German View of theIsraeli-Palestinian Conflict,” held in cooperation with theWorld Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and with the high school’sGerman Club and Academy for World Affairs

October 3 – Pittsburgh Warburg Chapter discussion and luncheonwith Ruprecht Polenz on “Germany’s Role in the World,” held incooperation with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

October 6 – San Francisco Warburg Chapter event with Hans-Gert Pöttering (1973 American-German Young Leader),Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and formerPresident of the European Parliament, on “Europe: Player orLoser,” held in cooperation with the Konrad AdenauerFoundation and the German American Business Association of California

October 8 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter event with Hans-GertPöttering on “The European Perspective: Values, Policies, andEconomy,” held in cooperation with the Konrad AdenauerFoundation, the George C. Marshall International Center, George Mason University, and the Northern Virginia RegionalCommission

October 11-12 – San Diego Warburg Chapter support of the SanDiego German Currents Film Festival at the San DiegoNatural History Museum

October 14 – Chicago Warburg Chapter event with AndreasDombret, Member of the Executive Board of the DeutscheBundesbank, on “The Euro Area – Taking Off or Staying

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Grounded?” as an honorary Kissinger Speaker, hosted byDentons US LLP

October 14 – Phoenix Warburg Chapter event with BerndFischer (1977 American-German Young Leader), GermanConsul General in Los Angeles, on the 25th anniversary of thefall of the Berlin Wall, held in cooperation with the GermanConsulate General in Los Angeles and the German HonoraryConsul in San Diego

October 15 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter event celebratingthe 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, held incooperation with the German Consul General in Chicago, theFoundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services, SchlaflySaint Louis Brewery, the Indiana University Max KadeGerman-American Center, the Athenaeum Foundation, and theCologne-Indianapolis Sister City Committee

October 20 – Denver Warburg Chapter discussion withThomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning at the GermanFederal Foreign Office, on “Germany and the EU: Is GermanyUndermining European Unity?” at Denver University’s JosefKorbel School of International Studies

October 20 – Denver Warburg Chapter discussion and dinnerwith Thomas Bagger on “The German Moment – Strengthsand Limitations of the German Economic and Political Modelin a Fragile World”

October 21 – Dallas Warburg Chapter event with ThomasBagger on “The German Moment – Strengths and Limitationsof the German Economic and Political Model in a FragileWorld,” held in cooperation with the Dallas Committee onForeign Relations and hosted by Locke Lorde LLP

October 22 – Minneapolis/St. Paul Warburg Chapter event withThomas Bagger on “The German Moment – Strengths andLimitations of the German Economic and Political Model in aFragile World,” held in cooperation with the Germanic-American Institute

October 23 – Philadelphia Warburg Chapter event withThomas Bagger on “The German Moment – Strengths andLimitations of the German Economic and Political Model in aFragile World,” held in cooperation with the German AmericanChamber of Commerce, Philadelphia

October 24 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Thomas Bagger on “The German Moment –Strengths and Limitations of the German Economic andPolitical Model in a Fragile World,” held in cooperation withGeorge Mason University, the George C. Marshall InternationalCenter, and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission

October 24 – Alexandria Warburg Chapter small groupdiscussion and dinner with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger,Foreign Editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on “WhatDoes a Successful Transatlantic Relationship Look Like?”

October 26 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter small eveningdiscussion with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, held incooperation with Honorary German Consul Klaus Becker

October 27 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter visit to DavidsonCollege by Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger and question-and-answer session with Davidson students and faculty

October 27 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter discussion andreception with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger on “25 Years:Germany Strong, Europe Weak,” held in cooperation withHonorary German Consul Klaus Becker and sponsored byGreerWalker LLP

October 29 – Atlanta Warburg Chapter event with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger on “From Restraint to Responsibility: IsThere a New German Foreign and Security Policy?” held incooperation with the German American Chamber of Commerceof the Southern U.S., Inc.

October 29 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with ThomasBagger, Head of Policy Planning at the German FederalForeign Office, on “Germany and Europe Facing the UkraineCrisis and ISIS,” held in cooperation with the WeatherheadCenter for International Affairs of Harvard University

October 30 – Nashville Warburg Chapter small group dinnerwith Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger

October 31 – Nashville Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger on “The End ofRestraint? Germany’s Foreign and Security Policy UnderMerkel III”

November 5 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter event on the 25thanniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with remarks byProfessor Kurt Biedenkopf, former Prime Minister of Saxony,as part of Davidson College’s Wall Week, held in cooperationwith the North Carolina Zeitgeist Foundation, DavidsonCollege, Lufthansa German Airlines, and the German Embassy

November 5 – Indianapolis Warburg Chapter discussion andluncheon with Philipp Ackermann, Minister and Deputy Chiefof Mission at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., on “25Years After the Fall of the Wall: The Current State of Germanyand Bilateral U.S.-German Relations,” held in cooperation withthe Foundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services, Barnes& Thornburg LLP, the International Center of Indiana, the

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Athenaeum Foundation, and the Consul General of Germany inChicago

November 17 – Charlotte Warburg Chapter event with Hans-Ulrich Klose, advisor to the Robert Bosch Foundation andformer Member of the Bundestag, on “German Foreign PolicyPerspectives on Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the Middle East:Impact on the Transatlantic Partnership”

November 18 – Boca Raton Warburg Chapter event with Hans-Ulrich Klose on “German Foreign Policy and Today’s WorldHot Spots – Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the Middle East,”held in cooperation with Florida Atlantic University

November 19 – Denver Warburg Chapter event with Hans-Ulrich Klose on “German Foreign Policy Perspectives onRussia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the Middle East: Impact on theTransatlantic Partnership”

November 20 – Madison Warburg Chapter event with Hans-Ulrich Klose on “German Foreign Policy Perspectives onRussia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the Middle East: Impact on theTransatlantic Partnership,” held in cooperation with the Centerfor German and European Studies at University of Wisconsin –Madison

December 2 – Boston Warburg Chapter event with AnnaHolzscheiter, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Mindade Gunzburg Center for European Studies at HarvardUniversity, on “Effective Governance of Global Public Health,”held in cooperation with the Minda de Gunzburg Center forEuropean Studies

December 11 – Boston Warburg Chapter panel discussion withAmbassador Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice ofDiplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard KennedySchool; ACG Board Member Professor Karl Kaiser, Professorof Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; and ProfessorCharles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History atHarvard, moderated by Professor Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor ofGovernment and Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center forEuropean Studies at Harvard University, on “Europe 25 YearsAfter the Fall of the Berlin Wall: What Kind of Future?” heldin honor of Professor Karl Kaiser’s 80th birthday, incooperation with the Goethe-Institut Boston and the ConsulateGeneral of Germany in Boston

Eric M. Warburg Chapters (Continued)

Alexandria, Virginia Dale Medearis(1995 McCloy Fellow in

Environmental Policy)

Atlanta, GeorgiaMartina Stellmaszek

Boca Raton, FloridaCatherine S. Meschievitz

Boston, MassachusettsMarc Redlich

Charlotte, North CarolinaAlbert E. Guarnieri

Chicago, IllinoisJohn D. Gatto

Dallas, TexasHansjörg Heppe (2006

Young Leader)Nicola Bremer

Denver, ColoradoWilliam M. BassBernhard Juergen Bleise

Indianapolis, IndianaSven Schumacher

Madison, WisconsinElizabeth E. Covington

Minneapolis/St. Paul,MinnesotaR. Donald KeysserChrista Tiefenbacher-Hudson

Nashville, TennesseeDouglas Berry (1992 Young

Leader)

Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaHarry Carl Schaub

Phoenix, ArizonaHelge Jordan (2003 Young

Leader)

Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaDavid A. Murdoch (Former

ACG Board Member)

St. Louis, MissouriUlrike K. Schlafly (ACG

Board Member)

San Diego, CaliforniaEberhard H. Röhm

San Francisco, CaliforniaJohannes M. BiermannBettina Warburg

Seattle, WashingtonBrian K. Klein (ACG Board

Member and 1989 YoungLeader)

Warburg Chapter Leadership

The ACG expresses its thanks to the below Warburg ChapterDirectors for volunteering their time and energy to bringquality programming to audiences around the country:

Warburg Chapter leaders gathered at the Chapter Directors

Conference in San Diego

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The American Council on Germany organized two Study Toursto Berlin in 2014 to take a closer look at the topics ofimmigration and climate and energy issues, respectively. EachStudy Tour brings a group of American experts to Germany tomeet with government officials, political leaders,businesspeople, academics, journalists, nongovernmentalorganizations, and think tanks to discuss the latestdevelopments in their field. These programs are designed tobuild direct dialogue between American and German experts,with the intention that this will create lasting networks ofprofessional discourse. Each Study Tour creates a two-wayexchange of ideas, best practices, and policies on the politicaland social landscapes of both nations in relation to the topics ofimmigration and climate/energy. This program is generouslysupported by the German Federal Ministry for Economics andEnergy through its European Recovery Program to supporttransatlantic dialogue.

Each Study Tour opens on a Sunday evening with a dinner,followed by four intensive days of meetings and briefings. Ateach of these meetings, German experts share their knowledgeon the respective topic, and their American counterparts engagewith them in dialogue. Dinner each evening is accompanied bydistinguished speakers such as Ali Aslan (2010 Young Leader),TV Host and Journalist; Erik Kirschbaum, Journalist andAuthor; Karsten D. Voigt, former German Bundestag Memberand Coordinator for German-American Cooperation; andAmbassador Hans-Georg Wieck, former President of theGerman Federal Intelligence Service and former Ambassador toIran, the Soviet Union, and India. Other important figures, suchas Tiglet Aslan, Head of the Berlin Office at Deekeling ArndtAdvisors; Berend Diekmann, Head of the U.S. and ForeignTrade Division at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairsand Energy; Hans-Ulrich Klose, former Bundestag Memberand Chairman of the German-American Parliamentary Group;and Detlef Wächter, Head of Division in the Office for theUnited States and Canada at the Federal Foreign Office, alsobriefed both delegations. This gives participants theopportunity to hear about German and EU foreign policy,German history, and current affairs from a German viewpoint,thus giving each participant a more all-encompassing view ofGerman society. Both groups met with a representative at theU.S. Embassy in Berlin.

The Study Tour on Immigration took place from May 18 to 22.This trip focused on immigration policy, particularly ongoingissues with political refugees and asylum seekers;multiculturalism in Germany and its importance for the futureof the nation; and EU migration due to the eurozone crisis.Prominent speakers included Ralf Gebel, Chief of Staff of theMinister of State at the Federal Chancellery; MekonnenMesghena, Head of Migration and Diversity at the HeinrichBöll Foundation; Almut Möller, Head of the Alfred vonOppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at the GermanCouncil on Foreign Relations (DGAP); Bundestag MembersDietmar Nietan (SPD) and Omid Nouripour (Alliance 90/TheGreens); Rolf-Dieter Schnelle, former Director of the ExpertCouncil of German Foundations on Integration and Migration;Peer Steinbrück, Chairman of the German-AmericanParliamentary Group of the Bundestag; and Astrid Ziebarth,

Director for Immigration and Integration at the GermanMarshall Fund of the United States. The group heard closing-dinner remarks from ACG Board Member Guido Goldman,Director of German Studies at the Minda de Gunzburg Centerfor European Studies at Harvard University. The delegates alsohad meetings at the American Jewish Committee Berlin Office,the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Foreign Office, the FederalMinistry of the Interior, the Immigration Department of theBerlin Police for Kreuzberg, the Jewish Museum Berlin, and theMercator Foundation.

The Study Tour on Climate and Energy Issues took place fromDecember 7 to 12. The delegation left Berlin with a deepunderstanding of the Energiewende, Germany’s energytransition. Germany has made a commitment across party linesand with strong public support to shut down its nuclear powerplants by 2022. Germans have put their focus on sustainablerenewables as the future of energy production. The discourse inBerlin pivoted around electricity consumption, renewableenergy resources, and carbon emissions reduction goals.Germany remains a frontrunner in research and developmentfor new technology and sustainability.

The group heard from distinguished personalities such as AlexBree, Head of the Division for Raw Materials and the MiningIndustry from the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy;Nicola Brüning, Head of BMW’s office in Berlin; MarcusHicken, Deputy Head of Division for Energy and Raw MaterialForeign Policy; Winfried Horstmann, Advisor to theChancellor on Energy Policy; Peter Roesgen, Advisor to theChancellor on Sustainable Development; andHinrichThölken, Head of the Division for Climate and EnvironmentalForeign Policy, and Sustainable Economy.

They also heard from experts such as Camilla Bausch, nowDirector of Ecologic Institute; Susanne Dröge, Head of theDivision for Global Issues at the German Institute forInternational and Security Affairs (SWP); Carel CarlowitzMohn, Director of Media Programs for Clean Energy Wire(CLEW); Wolfgang Niedermark, Vice President and Head ofthe BASF Berlin Liaison Office; and Peter Schneider, Authorof Berlin Now: The City After the Wall. They met with expertsfrom Angora Energiewende, the Berlin Agency forElectromobility, the German Energy Agency (dena), theInstitute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., the Hasso-Plattner-Institut, the Potsdam Institute of Climate ImpactResearch (PIK), and the European Climate Foundation. Thegroup was generously hosted for lunch by both CMS HascheSigle and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Study Tours

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Study Tour on

Immigration

Seema AgnaniExecutive DirectorChhaya Community

Development Corporation New York, New York

Brooke BinkowskiJournalistKPBS/NPR San Diego, California

Timothy D. Bradley, Jr.MayorBorough of Mount Joy Mount Joy, Pennsylvania

Terri Morris DownsExecutive DirectorImmigrant Welcome Center Indianapolis, Indiana

J. Richard GamaJudgeSuperior Court of Arizona in

Maricopa County Phoenix, Arizona

Delancey GustinPolicy AnalystU.S. Citizenship and

Immigration Services Washington, D.C.

William A. HahnAttorneyHahn & Matkov Boston, Massachusetts

Chelsea HansonAssistant Director for

Immigration PolicyAmerican Jewish Committee Washington, D.C.

Jon HussAttorneyLaw Office of Jon HussCasper, Wyoming

Rebecca KilbergCommunications SpecialistMigration Policy Institute Washington, D.C.

Dae Young KimAssistant ProfessorGeorge Mason University Fairfax, Virginia

Luis F.B. PlascenciaAssistant Professor and

Southwest BorderlandsScholar

Arizona State University Glendale, Arizona

Susan ShattuckProgram Manager, Field

Operations AtlantaCustoms and Border

Protection Atlanta, Georgia

Elizabeth VendittoProgram Specialist,

Immigration HistoryResearch Center

University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota

Study Tour on Climate

and Energy Issues

Adam AgallocoEnergy ManagerCity of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fritz BeesonSenior DirectorLaw Services – LitigationSalt River Project Phoenix, Arizona

Marilyn Brown ProfessorGeorgia Institute of

Technology Atlanta, Georgia

Henry CampenAttorneyParker Poe Adams &

Bernstein LLP Raleigh, North Carolina

Jason GroenewoldManager, Business

DevelopmentDuke Energy Charlotte, North Carolina

Jesse KharbandaExecutive Director Hoosier Environmental

CouncilIndianapolis, Indiana

Robert W. Lazaro, Jr.Director, Regional Energy

Planning Northern Virginia Regional

Commission Fairfax, Virginia

Melissa Kjolsing LynchDirectorMinnesota Cup Minneapolis, Minnesota

Alice MaddenPrincipal Deputy Assistant

Secretary Office of Intergovernmental

and External AffairsDepartment of EnergyWashington, D.C.

Maeve McBrideCoordinator350VermontBurlington, Vermont

Jeff OestmannPresident and CEO East Kansas Agri-Energy

LLC Garnett, Kansas

Kate PowellNews Department Intern and

Junior ReporterKSFR 101.1 FM White Rock

– Sante Fe Santa Fe, New Mexico

Amit RonenDirector George Washington

University Solar Institute Washington, D.C.

Catherine TrinkleSenior CounselBASF Corporation Florham Park, New Jersey

Melis TusirayDirector of ProgramsAmerican Friends of Bucerius New York, New York

2014 Study Tour Participants

Delegates to the 2014 Study Tour on Immigration atop the Bundestag with Bundestag Member Özcan

Mutlu (Alliance 90/The Greens) (seventh from the right); Helena Kane Finn (fifth from the right), ACG

Vice President and Director of Programs; and Johanna Gregory (left), ACG Program Manager

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The American-German Young Leaders Conferences aredesigned to engage up-and-coming American and Germanprofessionals in an intense exploration of issues on thetransatlantic agenda while forming a strong network ofinfluential thought leaders. Forty-seven Young Leadersgathered from August 10 to 15, 2014, in Berlin to look at thefuture of German-American relations and to confront theadmittedly sobering overarching theme of the conference:“Unconscious Uncoupling: Are the U.S. and Europe Still in aRelationship?” The delegates hail from a wide range of fields,including banking, economics, government, media, the military,law, and entrepreneurism.

In addition to meeting in working groups, the Young Leadersmet with high-level officials to discuss key economic, political,and social issues. Speakers included Klaus-Dieter Fritsche,State Secretary and Chief Intelligence Advisor to ChancellorMerkel; Emily Haber, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry ofthe Interior; Jürgen Hardt, Coordinator of TransatlanticCooperation at the Federal Foreign Office; Christoph Heusgen,National Security Advisor to Chancellor Merkel; SteffenKampeter, Deputy Finance Minister and Parliamentary StateSecretary; and Michael Roth (2004 Young Leader), DeputyForeign Minister and Minister for Europe. Delegates alsotoured the Jewish Museum Berlin and met with Chief ArchivistAubrey Pomerance. The American delegates took part in anorientation in Munich before the conference.

The 2014 Young Leaders hashed over a wide range of hot-button topics, including the following issues:

• “Identity Politics: What Makes an American or a German?”;

• “Can Transatlantic Trust Be Restored?”;

• “History Bites Back: Can Any Form of Power – Soft, Hard,or Smart – Work?”;

• “Setting a Growth Agenda”;

• “Populism & Politics: Assessing the Electoral Landscape2014 & Beyond”; and

• “Transatlantic Transitioning: Setting an Agenda for Growthand Security.”

Even as delegates acknowledged the bumps in the roadexperienced in the transatlantic relationship, many speakersunderlined the strong bond that Germany and the United Stateshave. Lieutenant General Peter Schelzig, Vice Chief ofDefense (Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) at theGerman Ministry of Defense, reminded those gathered of thetwo countries’ deep historical ties and also the necessity of theirpartnership and indeed friendship in today’s complex world:“Ladies and gentlemen, the challenges ahead of us – political,economic, ecological, military – are too manifold, too diverse,too complex, and simply too great to be mastered single-handedly. … These challenges can only be mastered together, byfriends.” His remarks were distributed as an Occasional Paper.

The findings of the conference were summarized in a report.The ACG extends its thanks to 2014 Young Leader William J.Adams, Senior International Economist at the PNC FinancialServices Group, for serving as rapporteur.

So the question remained: Are the U.S. and Europe still in arelationship? The Young Leaders found that yes, indeed theyare – and delegates will do everything in their power to shore upthat relationship in the long term.

XXXVI American-German Young Leaders Conference

Young Leaders meeting with German Defense Minister Ursula von

der Leyen (right), who was introduced by 2014 Young Leader

Nathanael Liminski (second from the right), Executive Staff in the

Office of the Federal Minister of Defense

A group of 2014 Young Leaders by the German Bundestag

Lieutenant General Peter Schelzig, Vice Chief of Defense (Deputy

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) at the German Ministry of Defense,

and 2014 Young Leaders Lena Sinn, Attorney at the Federal Defense

Administration; Cristina Gonzalez, Senior Producer at Cox Media Group;

and Major Seth A. Johnston, Assistant Professor in the Department of

Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy (left to right)

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2014 AMERICAN

DELEGATION

William J. AdamsSenior International

EconomistThe PNC Financial Services

Group

Jonathan D. BergnerDirector, Federal AffairsNational Association of

Mutual Insurance Cos.

Jeremy Broggi Associate Wiley Rein LLP

Autumn A. CarterExecutive DirectorCalifornia Common Sense

Sewell ChanDeputy Editor, Op-Ed/Sunday

ReviewThe New York Times

Rohit ChopraAssistant Director and

Student Loan OmbudsmanConsumer Financial

Protection Bureau

Alyssa DaCunhaAssociateWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale

& Dorr LLP

Jose Felix DiazState RepresentativeFlorida State Legislature

“There are very few times in ourlives where we can really connectand interact with ourcontemporaries from abroad. Plus,the access to the highest levels ofgovernment that was providedwas beyond compare. TheAmerican-German relationship isso unique and special, andprograms such as yours are vital tothe fostering of continuingfriendships and goodwill. … Itwas one of the greatest experiencesof my young professional life andI will cherish it forever.”– Jose Felix Diaz

Steven J. EhrlichAssociateSpitzberg Partners

Matthew T. EpperlyVice PresidentThe Harbour Group

Cristina GonzalezSenior ProducerCox Media Group

“America could use moreexperiences such as the ACGYoung Leaders program, becausethe only way we truly begin tounderstand and solve problems isto engage in dialogue. I’mthankful to the AmericanCouncil on Germany for theexperience; it will forever shapemy interest, understanding, andcommitment to German-American relations.”– Cristina Gonzalez

Felice GorordoCEOClearpath

Major Seth A. JohnstonAssistant Professor,

Department of SocialSciences

U.S. Military Academy

Ellen E. KimDirector of Marketing and

Business Development’wichcraft

Joseph LevinsonCounsel to Commissioner

Daniel M. GallagherU.S. Securities and Exchange

Commission

Jason McAlpineGlobal Manager – Planning

and Mergers & AcquisitionsBASF Corporation

Lia N. MillerWatch OfficerExecutive Secretariat –

Operations CenterDepartment of State

Gillian MorrisCEOHitlist

Jason G. OlsonDirector, International

External AffairsAT&T

Lauren H. O’NeillDirector of Programs, Public

SectorDataminr

Katie SiebenAssistant Majority LeaderMinnesota State Senate

Kevin L. TurnerChief Deputy Attorney

GeneralOffice of the Alabama

Attorney General

2014 GERMAN

DELEGATION

Felix BlobelAssociated PartnerNoerr LLP

Tanja FallerSenior Energy EconomistAfrican Development Bank

Karina HäuslmeierDesk Officer, USAFederal Foreign Office

Philipp HalstrickTop News EditorThomson Reuters

Jan Malte HießerichDirector (Team Lead, CEO

Communications)Hering Schuppener

Consulting

“I would like to thank you andyour colleagues for the wonderfulopportunity to meet some of thebrightest young talents I’ve evermet. The discussions we had wereboth insightful and thought-provoking. But they were nothingcompared to the many talks andunofficial discussion rounds wehad during the program about awide array of issues that, in someinstances, really opened up myeyes.”– Jan Malte Hießerich

Çiğdem İpekDesk Officer: Education and

Vocational TrainingChancellery – Federal

Government Commissionerfor Migration, Refugees, andIntegration

Andreas KaiserDesk Officer Energy, Economics,

EnvironmentEmbassy of the State of Israel

in Germany

XXXVI American-German Young Leaders Conference (Continued)

Naren Shaam, Founder and CEO of GoEuro Corp; 2014 Young Leader

Gillian Morris, CEO of Hitlist; Stefan Jorgensen, Founder of itembase;

Benjamin Rohé (2011 Young Leader and 2014 Entrepreneur Fellow),

Founder and CEO of MAS Angel Fund GmbH & Co.; and Holger G.

Weiss, CEO of AUPEO!

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Ana-Constantina KolbPersonal StafferOffice of Dr. Norbert Röttgen,

Member of the GermanBundestag (CDU/CSU)

“ I can now very much relate to what alumni have alwayssaid, but the week of theconference managed to beat my correspondingly highexpectations. I would like toemphasize how spectacular eachand every one of the speakerswas, how open and insightfultheir comments were. As awoman, I was also particularlyhappy to see a woman with aprominent role on the SteeringCommittee and that we were ableto meet Bundesministerin von derLeyen and StaatssekretärinEmily Haber.”– Ana-Constantina Kolb

Dennis KolbergDesk Officer: EU

Coordination DivisionGerman Federal Ministry of

Finance

Jörg LandschVice President, Regional

Management U.S.Deutsche Bank AG

Carmen LehmacherProgram Manager,

OrganizationalDevelopment Unit

Deutsche Bank AG

Nathanael LiminskiExecutive StaffOffice of the MinisterFederal Ministry of Defense

Ricarda PöhlBusiness Manager and Legal

CounselFundedByMe

Ludwig PrellerManaging Director, Member

of the BoardCLEVIS GmbH, MAS Angel

Fund

Stefan RosenthalHead of Section Market

Analyses, ReportingDeutsche Bundesbank

Sandra RöttgenPrivate Secretary of Minister

of State Helge Braun Federal Chancellery

Britta RottbeckSpeechwriterOffice of Dr. Angela Merkel

Jan SchinköthPartnerDLA Piper UK LLP

Lena SinnAttorneyFederal Defense

Administration

Hendrik SittigPersonal Assistant to the

Director of Programs(TV/Radio/Online)

rbb – Rundfunk Berlin�Brandenburg

Stefan Uecker Advisor to the Interior

CommitteeSPD Parliamentary GroupGerman Bundestag

Tim WennigesHead of UnitSuedwestmetall – Employers’

Association of the Metal andElectrical Industry

Horst WieshuberAdvisor to Federal President

Gauck Division 10 for Intercultural

& Interfaith Dialogue

Thomas Wurdig Manager, Regulatory Strategy Daimler AG

Patrick ZahnManaging PartnerKiK Textilien und Non-Food

GmbH

In GratitudeThe ACG is grateful to thefollowing sponsors of the 2014American-German YoungLeaders Conference:

Sponsors

anchor RechtsanwälteAnna-Maria and Stephen M.

Kellen FoundationAT&TDaimler AGDeutsche Bank AGDLA PiperGerman Marshall Fund of the

United StatesMcDermott Will & EmeryNoerr LLPPfizer Deutschland

Steering Committee

The American Council onGermany would also like toexpress its many thanks to theYoung Leaders SteeringCommittee. The followingcommittee members workedtirelessly in conjunction withACG Executive Vice PresidentKaren Furey to bring adynamic conference tofruition:

Edward S. McFadden(Chairman)

Vice President, ExternalCommunications

Verizon

Tony FinkelnburgHead of Public

Policy/CampaigningArbeitgeberverband

Gesamtmetall

Ronald J. GranieriSenior Fellow and Executive

DirectorCenter for the Study of

America and the WestForeign Policy Research

Institute

Sarmad HussainDeekeling Arndt Advisors in

Communications GmbH

Alumni Reunite to

Network and

Exchange Ideas

Alumni of the American-German Young LeadersConference convene fordiscussions and othermeetings on a regular basisin New York, Berlin,Munich, and around theworld. While theconference itself lasts foronly one week, the bondsformed during theconference endure for thelong term.

Almost 100 American-German Young Leaderalumni gathered on May16 at Allianz Forum onPariser Platz in Berlin.The group had adiscussion with Peter G.Harf, CEO of Agnaten SE,on “Investment Strategyfor Consumer Goods in anUncertain World.” He wasintroduced by Anna vonBayern (2010 YoungLeader), PoliticalCorrespondent at AxelSpringer/Bild am Sonntag.

Alumni were welcomed toa reception hosted byBusso von Alvensleben,then Consul General ofGermany in New York, onMay 21 at his residence.Ming-Yi C. Smith (2010Young Leader), who istrained as a concert pianist,treated alumni to abeautiful Mendelssohnpiece in betweennetworking.

To read more about thealumni reunion from May1 to 3, please see page 7.

Young Leader alumni alsomet less formally tocontinue the dialoguebegun during theconference.

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Since the creation of the fellowshipprogram in 1976, more than 900 McCloyFellows from Germany and the UnitedStates have traveled abroad to meet withpolicymakers, pursue timely articles, andundertake research of their own design.While the fellows represent variousbackgrounds and industries, they sharesimilar qualities of ambition, leadership,and intellectual curiosity. The McCloyFellowships are named after John J.McCloy, the founding Chairman of theACG.

Under the auspices of the AmericanCouncil on Germany, 17 McCloyFellowships were awarded in 2014 toprofessionals with outstandingbackgrounds. The fellowships giveindividuals in the relatively early stagesof their careers the opportunity to travelacross the Atlantic for three weeks tomeet with their counterparts and researchcurrent topics in transatlantic relations.

Once the fellows have returned fromoverseas, many maintain the new bondsthey formed. Fellowship alumni includeelected officials of local, state, andnational prominence; reporters andeditors at major media outlets;accomplished artists; and leaders inbusiness and the nonprofit sector.

ACG McCloy Fellowships

In 2014, the ACG McCloy Fellowshipsallowed individuals to research timelytopics, meet their transatlanticcounterparts, and discuss best practicesin a wide array of fields. The McCloyFellowships were open to individualsfrom nonprofits, think tanks, law,journalism, the public sector, and culturalorganizations. Fellows travel abroad forup to three weeks to explore issuesaffecting the transatlantic relationship.Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas, LandProgram Associate at the S.D. Bechtel,Jr., Foundation in San Francisco,California, is researching “The Attitudeof German Public Benefit FoundationsToward Partnership for SocialGood.” Christina Felschen, Editor-in-Chief at NGO Welthungerhilfe in Bonn,Germany, is investigating “The InvisibleNeighbors: Undocumented Migrants inArizona and California.” Julia Genth,Official in Charge of MunicipalEnvironmental Protection for the City ofLindau, Germany, is looking at “LocalApproaches to a Global Challenge:Global Climate Change and the LocalAnswers in German and U.S.Municipalities.” Marc Hasse, ScienceEditor for Hamburger Abendblatt, isresearching “Learning in the DigitalSociety.” Herman Howard, DepartmentChairperson for English, ForeignLanguages, and Mass Communications atBenedict College in Charlotte, NorthCarolina, is examining “What Is the Roleof the European Space Agency inGermany and What Are the Implicationsof Its Relationship with NASA?” TobiasSchaefer, Water Protection Officer forGruene LIGA e.V. in Berlin, isinvestigating “Watershed Managementand River Restoration in the U.S.:Policies, Instruments, and Strategies.”Benjamin Shivers, German Instructor atWoodward Academy in College Park,Georgia, is exploring “Public Policy andthe Vocational Education Symbiosis inGermany and Georgia.” Tyler Strom,Senior Program Officer at the ChicagoCouncil on Global Affairs, is looking at“Growing Organic: Germany’sAgricultural Policy Toward SustainableFood Protection.” And Henning Wilts,Senior Research Fellow at the WuppertalInstitute in Frankfurt, is studying “ZeroWaste: Learning from the U.S.Experiences on Critical Raw Materials.”

McCloy Fellowships in Agriculture

The ACG awarded four McCloyFellowships in Agriculture in 2014.These four Americans traveled as a groupto Germany in the early fall to meet withtheir counterparts and discuss bestpractices. This exchange is particularlyimportant because agriculture policyremains one major point of the debate inthe Transatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership (TTIP) negotiations. Duringtheir three weeks in Germany, the fellowsare hosted by fellowship alumni andmembers of the DeutscherBauernverband (German Farmers’Association). The 2014 McCloy Fellowsin Agriculture are: Kristi Boswell,Director of Congressional Relations forthe American Farm Bureau Federation inWashington, D.C.; Nicholas Colglazier,Director of Public Policy, State Affairs,for the Colorado Farm Bureau inCentennial, Colorado;MeghanMueseler, Farmer from Wichita, Kansas;and Susan Wilkins, Farmer and Chair ofthe Young Farmers & RanchersCommittee for the West Virginia FarmBureau from Hillsboro, West Virginia.

The ACG extends its thanks to theAmerican Farm Bureau Federation andthe Deutscher Bauernverband for theirassistance in identifying qualifiedcandidates for the agriculture fellowshipsand for ensuring the fellows’ itinerariesare tailored to their professional interests.

“I am so grateful for this opportunity andbelieve that I am a better representative ofagriculture and person because of being aMcCloy Fellow. In the end, we are taught toalways ‘Arbeit mit Leidenschaft’ or,translated into English, to ‘Work withPassion.’ That is what farmers in Germany,the United States, and across the world doevery day, and that is what I will continue todo in representing them and this amazingindustry in my career and in my everydaylife.” – 2014 McCloy Fellow in Agriculture Kristi Boswell

McCloy Fellowships

2014 American McCloy Fellows in Agriculture

Kristi Boswell of Washington, D.C.; Susan

Wilkins of Hillsboro, West Virginia; Meghan

Mueseler of Wichita, Kansas; and Nicholas

Colglazier of Centennial, Colorado, visiting a

dairy farm in Bavaria

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McCloy Fellowships in Urban

Affairs

The McCloy Fellowships in UrbanAffairs brought together four Germanfellows for three weeks of meetings withcity officials, policymakers, and localleaders to exchange best practices.Fellows are selected in conjunction withthe Deutscher Städtetag (Association ofGerman Cities) and are hosted byAmerican alumni of the fellowshipprogram. The fellows, Sandra Boehm,Head of the Department of VehicleRegistration for the City of Offenbach;Christine Meyer, Personal Assistant tothe Lord Mayor of the City ofNuremberg; Henrik Neumann, SeniorPlanning Officer from the City of Jena;and Christine Wilcken, Chief OfficeManager for the Association of GermanCities in Berlin, began their program inNew York City by meeting with officialsfrom the largest American city beforecontinuing on to Washington, D.C.;Seminole, Florida; Flagstaff, Arizona;Cincinnati, Ohio; and Detroit, Michigan.

The ACG would like to thank theNational League of Cities and theDeutscher Städtetag for their assistancein selecting candidates and for helpingwith the coordination of the fellows’itineraries.

“The participation in the McCloy Fellowshipprogram was an unforgettable journey and anoutstanding experience both as an urbanplanner and personally. Within just threeweeks’ time, I had the chance to get to knowthe country, the places we visited, and allthose helpful people I will always remember.The people we met were unbelievablyfriendly, supportive, and open-minded.” – 2014 McCloy Fellow in Urban AffairsHenrik Neumann

Fellowships for Young

Entrepreneurs and Innovators

The American Council on Germany’sFellowship for Young Entrepreneurs andInnovators is an exchange program forGerman businesspeople who showpotential in entrepreneurism and/ortechnology and demonstrate leadershipattributes. After a successful first year, thefellowship continued with two newawardees in 2014: Benjamin Rohé andThomas Wuttke. Benjamin Rohé (2011Young Leader) is the Founder and CEOof MAS Angel Fund GmbH & Co., basedin Berlin. MAS Angel Fund invests inand helps start-ups in Berlin. ThomasWuttke is the Managing Director of pg40Consulting Group GmbH. Pg40Consulting Group is a provider ofbusiness consulting, strategyimplementation, IT management,technology, and innovation services.

Hunt and Goldman Fellowships

The Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship forthe Study of German Politics, Culture,and Society is awarded to promisingyoung American academics whose workexplores key themes of contemporaryGerman society or the political, cultural,and social history of Germany. Thefellowship is named in honor of formerACG President and current ViceChairman Richard M. Hunt. In 2014, theHunt Fellowship was awarded to WillRall, Ph.D. candidate at the University ofTennessee – Knoxville, to completeresearch on “Nazi Charity: Giving,Emotion, and Morality in the ThirdReich.”

The Dr. Guido Goldman Fellowship forthe Study of German and EuropeanEconomic and International Affairs isawarded to an American scholar whoseresearch concentrates on Germaneconomic and international policy in awider European context. The fellowshipwas established to honor ACG BoardMember Guido Goldman, Director ofGerman Studies at the Minda deGunzburg Center for European Studies atHarvard University. Jennifer Rodgers,Associate at the Berlin Program forAdvanced German and European Studies

at the Free University of Berlin, wasawarded the 2014 Goldman Fellowship tocomplete research on “From the ‘Archiveof Horrors’ to the ‘Shop Window ofDemocracy’: The International TracingService, 1943-2013.”

Kellen Fellowships

The Anna-Maria and Stephen KellenFellowships are awarded to promisingyoung Berlin-based journalists to conductinterviews and complete research oncurrent trends in the transatlanticpartnership. The fellowship is namedafter Anna-Maria Kellen and the lateStephen M. Kellen, a Berlin native whowas an ACG Board Member and Co-Chairman of the New York investmentfirm Arnhold and S. BleichroederHoldings, Inc., and is funded by theAnna-Maria and Stephen KellenFoundation.

In 2014, the ACG awarded fourindividuals Kellen Fellowships:Johannes Gernert, Managing Editorof Die Tageszeitung, who is researchinghow algorithms can be used as a way toprevent crime; Carina Körner,Reporter for Bayeriches Fernsehen’sBerlin Bureau, who is examining the useof antibiotics in farming; Peter Mücke,Parliamentary Correspondent for ARD-Hauptstadtstudio Berlin, who isresearching universal health care in theUnited States; and Bernard Pötter, aFreelance Journalist, who is observingthe greening of U.S. energy policy.

Other Fellowships

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Twenty-five years ago, a new world order emerged as twoGermanys united and the Iron Curtain fell. The AmericanCouncil on Germany’s programs at the time strived to shedlight on this watershed moment and to involve former EastGermans in a new chapter of transatlantic dialogue. In 2014, theACG marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wallwith a series of programs in New York and around the UnitedStates – and also where the Wall once stood.

The ACG hosted a discussion and luncheon with AmbassadorRobert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel atWilmerHale LLP and ACG Chairman, on “The Fall of 1989:An Insider Looks Back” in New York City. AmbassadorKimmitt was serving as Under Secretary of State for PoliticalAffairs at this turning point in history and shared his insightsfrom behind the scenes – leavened with some humorousanecdotes. The ACG is grateful to Alston & Bird LLP forhosting this event.

Author Peter Schneider traveled to 12 Warburg Chapters andNew York City to discuss his latest book, which looks at thechanges in Berlin since 1989. Berlin Now: The City After the Wallexamines how Berlin is in constant transformation, evolvingfrom a city of secret police to a city of artists and culture. TheNew York event was held in cooperation with Deutsches Hausat NYU.

The Charlotte Warburg Chapter hosted a reception anddiscussion with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editorat the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on “25 Years: GermanyStrong, Europe Weak.” This event was part of the Dr. Henry A.Kissinger Speakers Program and was held in partnership withKlaus Becker, Honorary Consul of Germany, and sponsored byGreerWalker LLP. The Chapter also helped support DavidsonCollege’s Wall Week marking this milestone in history. WallWeek included the construction and destruction of a mockBerlin Wall on the Davidson campus; screenings of moviesabout life in the German Democratic Republic; and a paneldiscussion with a victim of Stasi oppression, a U.S. LieutenantColonel who served in Berlin in 1989, and Professor Kurt

Biedenkopf, former Prime Minister of Saxony, who also gavethe keynote address. Wall Week was held in cooperation withthe North Carolina Zeitgeist Foundation, Davidson College,Lufthansa German Airlines, and the German Embassy.

The Indianapolis Warburg Chapter hosted an event celebratingthe 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall with testimonialsfrom residents of the former East Germany and discussions withMaster Brewer Tom Schlafly. The event was held inpartnership with the German Consul General in Chicago, theFoundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services, SchlaflySaint Louis Brewery, the Indiana University Max KadeGerman-American Center, the Athenaeum Foundation, and theIndianapolis-Cologne Sister City Committee. The IndianapolisChapter also hosted a discussion and luncheon with PhilippAckermann, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at theGerman Embassy in Washington, D.C., on “25 Years After theFall of the Wall: The Current State of Germany and BilateralU.S.-German Relations.” This event was held in partnershipwith the Foundation for Lutheran Child and Family Services.

The Phoenix Warburg Chapter met with Bernd Fischer (1977Young Leader), German Consul General in Los Angeles, todiscuss the fall of the Wall and the accompanying events thattook place across central Europe in 1989.

In addition, 2013 McCloy Fellow in Art Sheryl Oring openedan art exhibit at the Museum The Kennedys in Berlin toexplore contemporary views about the Berlin Wall. Ms. Oringset up typewriters in the Prenzlauer Berg section of Berlin andcollected the thoughts and feelings people have associated withthe Berlin Wall. These thoughts were typed and put on displayat her exhibit, called “Maueramt.”

All of these events had the goal of analyzing the dramaticunfolding of a new era while reminding us how precious acommodity freedom is – a freedom that was only fairly recentlysecured for many in central Europe.

The ACG Marks the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

ACG Chairman Ambassador Robert M. Kimmitt recounting his

personal experiences around the fall of the Wall

Scott Miller (1990 Young Leader) chipping away at the Wall

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Occasional Paper #1A Discussion with the Newly Minted PermanentRepresentative of Germany to the United Nations,Ambassador Dr. Harald Braunat the Annual Meeting of the American Council on GermanyMarch 31, 2014New York City

Occasional Paper #2“The State of Europe: End of the Crisis or Crisis WithoutEnd?”An address by Andreas Dombret, Member of the ExecutiveBoard of the Deutsche BundesbankBefore the Dallas Eric M. Warburg Chapter of the AmericanCouncil on Germany, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, theGACC South, and the Dallas Committee on Foreign RelationsApril 15, 2014Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Occasional Paper #3“Germany as Model and Mediator for Northeast AsianConflicts”An address by Lily Gardner Feldman, Harry & Helen GraySenior Fellow at the American Institute for ContemporaryGerman Studiesbefore the American Council on Germany and AmericanFriends of Buceriusas part of the 2014 Transatlantic Global Agenda SeriesMay 13, 2014New York CityWith special thanks to Alston & Bird LLP for hosting this event

Occasional Paper #4“A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Can theUnited States and Europe Lead the Way to Global EconomicRecovery?”An opening statement by Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller,President of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KGat a discussion of the American Council on GermanyJune 18, 2014New York City

Occasional Paper #5“Germany, the Euro, and Europe”An address by Carl-Ludwig Thiele, Member of the ExecutiveBoard of the Deutsche Bundesbankbefore the American Council on GermanyJuly 2, 2014New York CityWith special thanks to Crowell & Moring LLP for hosting this event

Occasional Paper #6The 2014 McCloy Awards DinnerAcceptance speeches by Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller,CEO and President of the Managing Board of TRUMPF GmbH+ Co. KG, and Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, andCo-Founder of Blackstonebefore the American Council on GermanyJune 17, 2014New York City

Occasional Paper #7“On Friendship – Why the United States and Germany AreMore Than Partners”An address by Lieutenant General Peter Schelzig, Vice Chiefof Defense (Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) at theGerman Ministry of Defensebefore the American Council on Germany’s XXXVI American-German Young Leaders ConferenceAugust 13, 2014Berlin

Occasional Paper #8“Unconscious Uncoupling: Are the U.S. and Europe Still in a Relationship?”The XXXVI American-German Young Leaders Conference ReportReport prepared by William J. Adams (2014 Young Leader),Senior International Economist at the PNC Financial ServicesGroup August 8-15, 2014Munich and Berlin

Occasional Paper #9“From Restraint to Responsibility: Is There a New GermanForeign and Security Policy?”An address before various Eric M. Warburg Chapters of theAmerican Council on Germany by Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor at theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungas part of the Dr. Henry A. Kissinger Transatlantic Speakers ProgramOctober 2014

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The American Council on Germany’s John J. McCloy Awardsare presented to two business leaders each year – one leader ofan American firm and one leader of a German firm – foroutstanding contributions to the transatlantic economicrelationship. In 2014, the ACG honored Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, CEO and President of the Managing Board ofTRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG, and Stephen A. Schwarzman,Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blackstone, at its 22ndannual McCloy Awards Dinner on June 17 at the Grand Hyattat Grand Central in New York City. ACG ChairmanAmbassador Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counselat WilmerHale LLP, was the master of ceremonies. More than450 businesspeople, dignitaries, and other stakeholders in theGerman-American relationship were in attendance.

Among the highlights of the dinner was a conversation withACG Director Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and German DefenseMinister Ursula von der Leyen, moderated by Jim Hoaglandof The Washington Post. Dr. Kissinger and Minister von derLeyen both covered a wide swath of geopolitical issues aroundthe globe. As the barrage of tough policy questions hit acrescendo, Dr. Kissinger quipped: “I hope they serve breakfasthere.”

The honorees did not shy from addressing policy issues as well.In her acceptance speech, Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller gave aresounding endorsement of the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership (TTIP). She told the audience that “I’mdeeply convinced that we need the TTIP. The opportunitieshere certainly outweigh the risks. And for both sides, for theEuropeans just as for the Americans, in view of the rather wearydebate on both sides of the Atlantic, it is now our task as thoseactive in industry to promote both.” Mr. Schwarzman, for hispart, praised Germany’s Mittelstand companies and said that“What the German government has done to encourageentrepreneurship, to develop industry, and fuel economicgrowth is quite unique in the developed world.”

The ACG would like to thank the many companies andindividuals who helped make the dinner a success. Proceeds ofthe McCloy Awards Dinner fund the Council’s work tostrengthen transatlantic ties, including its flagship American-German Young Leaders Conferences, policy discussions in NewYork City and around the United States at its WarburgChapters, fellowships for mid-career professionals, publications,and more, having a positive impact on hundreds of people eachyear.

2014 John J. McCloy Awards Dinner

Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, CEO and President of the Managing

Board of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG, and ACG Chairman Ambassador

Robert M. Kimmitt

Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of

Blackstone, and ACG Chairman Ambassador Robert M. Kimmitt

ACG Director Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and German Defense Minister

Ursula von der Leyen

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2014 McCloy Awards

Dinner SupportersThe American Council on Germanygratefully thanks the followingsupporters:

UNDERWRITERS

BlackstoneBridgewater Associates, LPDeutsche BankSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPTRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG

PATRONS

AlcoaArnhold and S. Bleichroeder

Holdings, Inc.CitiCommerzbank AGCravath, Swaine & Moore LLPDHLEli Lilly and CompanyLufthansa German AirlinesMannheim LLCMilbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLPPatomak Global PartnersPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPTishman SpeyerXL Group

SPONSORS

Allianz of AmericaAT&T Services, Inc.BASF CorporationDebevoise & Plimpton LLPDeloitteDonna and Marvin Schwartz FoundationFacebookGoldman SachsGuido Goldman Richard M. Hunt Ambassador and Mrs. Robert

M. KimmittKPMG LLPMarsh LLCThe Murphy Family Foundation Paramount Group, Inc.Sidley Austin LLPSiemens CorporationSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher

& Flom LLP

FRIENDS

Alston & Bird LLPAugustinPartners LLCWilliam M. Barron BayernLBbayme vbm vbw – Bavarian Industry

AssociationBismarck Capital, LLCJohn J. Calaman and Marjorie E. NesbittCarl Zeiss, Inc.Joseph M. CohenLee CullumBal G. DasDavid W. DetjenDeutsche Telekom, Inc.DZ BANK New York BranchGlobal Kompass StrategiesGunther E. GreinerThe Guardian Life Insurance Company

of AmericaWilliam R. HarmanRichard F. HohltMr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman James B. Lockhart IIIMaverick Capital CharitiesJohn J. McCloy II and Laura McCloyMorgan StanleyNORD/LBJens OdewaldPepsiCo Foundation Christian PfrangRolls-Royce North AmericaHarry ShannonSitusEdward TanenbaumThe Williams Capital Group

A lighter moment during the conversation with ACG Director Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and German

Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, moderated by Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post

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The American Council on Germany is committed to workingclosely with the American and German corporate communitiesto advance the understanding of key economic and politicalissues on the transatlantic agenda. The ACG’s corporatemembership program provides business leaders in the German-American community with access to top economicdecision-makers and other business leaders from bothcountries; invitations to discussions and conferences on currenttransatlantic issues; and participation in a forum whereAmerican and German business leaders can network anddiscuss issues of mutual concern. In addition, corporatemembers receive executive summaries of the ACG’s policydiscussions and other publications of interest to the Germanand American corporate community. Top contributors aremembers of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC).

The year 2014 brought no dearth of issues for corporatemembers to examine. The Transatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership (TTIP) negotiations continued, but hopes to gainmore traction went largely unfulfilled. The future shape of theEuropean Union was called into question as right-wing partiesgained ground in elections. Terrorism at the hands of ISIS andcrises in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine created huge demands on theinternational community, as did the growing toll of Ebola inwestern Africa. And the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landingsand the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I remindedeveryone of the gravity of conflict when not addressed in atimely manner.

In 2014, corporate members were given a special opportunity tomeet with Ambassador John B. Emerson, U.S. Ambassador toGermany; Hans-Gert Pöttering (1973 Young Leader),Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and pastPresident of the European Parliament; and Guido Westerwelle,former German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs andfounder of the Westerwelle Foundation for InternationalUnderstanding, among others. Corporate members were alsoinvited to the ACG’s German-American Conference on“Restoring Trust: The Future of the Transatlantic Partnership”in Washington, D.C., and its programs on the TTIP in NewYork City.

Corporate MembersThe Council is very grateful for the involvement, support, andgenerosity of all of the corporate members listed here:

CORPORATE LEADERS ($10,000 AND ABOVE)

American Asset CorporationArnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. AT&TBlackstoneBMW Group Daimler Deutsche Bank Deutsche Telekom Goldman Sachs Lilly NWI Management LP Pfizer Inc Siemens Tishman Speyer

CORPORATE ASSOCIATES ($5,000 - $9,999)

Baldwin-Gottschalk Group BASF Corporation bayme vbm vbw – Bavarian Industry Association Citi Commerzbank AG Debevoise & Plimpton Deloitte & Touche Deutsche Post DHL North America DZ BANK Ernst & Young JPMorgan ChaseLandesbank Baden-Württemberg Locke Lord LLP Mannheim LLC Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Noerr LLP NORD/LB Paramount Group PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Sidley Austin LLP Volkswagen of AmericaWarburg Pincus

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS (UP TO $4,999)

Landesbank Hessen-ThüringenMedley Global AdvisorsR&J Investors, Inc.

Corporate Membership Program

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Allianz ForumAlston & Bird LLP American Chamber of CommerceAmerican Farm Bureau FederationAmerican Friends of Bucerius American Jewish Committeeanchor RechtsanwälteAntaeus ConsultingAnti-Defamation LeagueArthur M. Glick Jewish Community

Center of IndianapolisAthenaeum FoundationAtlantik-Brücke

Barnes & Thornburg LLPBay Area Council Economic Institutebayme vbm vbw – Bavarian Industry

AssociationBerlin PartnersBoston Committee on Foreign Relations

Center for the Study of Europe at BostonUniversity

CitiCongressional Study Group on GermanyContemporary Art Museum St. LouisCrowell & Moring LLP

Daimler AGDallas Bar Association – Legal History

Discussion GroupDallas Committee on Foreign RelationsDallas Goethe CenterDallas Holocaust MuseumDavidson CollegeDavidson College German DepartmentDeloitteDentons US LLPDeutsche Bank AGDeutscher BauernverbandDeutscher StädtetagDeutsches Haus at NYUDiplomatic CorpsDLA PiperDuane Morris LLP

Federal Reserve Bank of DallasFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas – Houston

BranchFlorida Atlantic UniversityFoundation for Lutheran Child and

Family Services, Indiana, Inc.

George C. Marshall International CenterGeorge Mason UniversityGeorgetown University BMW Center for

German and European Studies Georgetown University German

Department

German Air Force Squadron at Luke AirForce Base

German American Business Association ofCalifornia

German American Chamber of CommerceGerman American Chamber of Commerce

of the Midwest, Minneapolis ChapterGerman American Chamber of

Commerce, PhiladelphiaGerman American Chamber of Commerce

of the Southern U.S., Inc.German American San Diego FoundationGerman Consulate General in AtlantaGerman Consulate General in BostonGerman Consulate General in ChicagoGerman Consulate General in HoustonGerman Consulate General in Los AngelesGerman Consulate General in New YorkGerman Consulate General in San

FranciscoGerman EmbassyGerman Honorary Consul in ArizonaGerman Honorary Consul in PittsburghGerman Honorary Consul in San DiegoGerman Honorary Consul in Western

North CarolinaGerman Honorary Consul for Wisconsin,

Minnesota, North Dakota, and SouthDakota

German-American Business CircleGermanic-American InstituteGoethe-Institut BostonGoethe-Institut ChicagoGoethe-Institut San FranciscoGreerWalker LLP

The Halle FoundationHerrick Feinstein LLPHewlett-PackardHodgson Russ LLP

Indiana University Institute for the Studyof Contemporary Antisemitism

Indiana University Max Kade German-American Center

Indiana University PressIndianapolis Jewish Community Relations

Council The Indianapolis Public LibraryIndianapolis-Cologne Sister City

CommitteeInstitute for the FutureThe International Center of Indiana

Jewish Community Center IndianapolisJFK Atlantic ForumJosef Korbel School of International

Studies at the University of Denver

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Locke Lord LLPLufthansa German Airlines

Madison Committee on Foreign RelationsMcDermott Will & EmeryMiller & Martin PLLCMinda de Gunzburg Center for European

Studies at Harvard UniversityMontgomery McCracken Walker &

Rhoads LLP

National League of CitiesNew York InternationalNoerr LLPNorth Carolina Zeitgeist FoundationNorth Hills High School Academy for

World AffairsNorth Hills High School German Club Northern Virginia Community CollegeNorthern Virginia Regional CommissionNRW.INVEST (North America) LLC

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPPfizer DeutschlandPhoenix Committee on Foreign Relations Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPPolsinelli PCThe Providence Day School Global

Studies ProgramPwC Strategy& (US) LLC

Robert Bosch FoundationRobert Bosch Foundation Alumni

AssociationRotary Club of Dallas

St. Louis-Stuttgart Sister CitiesSt. Thomas Lutheran ChurchSanford Rose AssociatesSchlafly Saint Louis BreweryThe Schlafly Tap RoomSidley Austin LLPSnell & Wilmer

Temple Shalom

University of Wisconsin – Madison Centerfor German and European Studies

University of Wisconsin – MadisonDepartment of Art History

Washington University in St. LouisWeatherhead Center for International

Affairs of Harvard UniversityWells FargoWinchester Thurston School World Affairs Council of AtlantaWorld Affairs Council of CharlotteWorld Affairs Council of Houston World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

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Michaela AbelsDavid S. AbrahamJefferson L. AdamsCourtney AdanteAsheesh AgarwalTanja AlemanyArthur Yorke AllenMichael A. AlmondAmy L. AlvarezPeter S. AlwardtSebastian ArangoHenry H. ArnholdHarold T. AtkinsPaul Stewart AtkinsReinhard AugustinPeter AukampAlex M. Azar IIWolfgang Baare-SchmidtPeter BabejC. Margarethe BaillouHarm BandholzC. Robert Barker IIIWilliam M. BarronJoseph A. BarryChristoph 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 BeitJohn B. Bellinger IIIMaximilian von BelowAlexander BenderMarcel A. BensJ. Frederick Berg, Jr.Sven BerggoetzDieter BergtKevin BertramRudy H. BeutellSebastian G. BiedenkopfJohannes M. BiermannAndreas BillmeierJ.D. BindenagelMarc BitzerRobert A. BlackChristian T. BlackwellMichael D. BlechmanBryce C. BlegenBernhard Juergen BleiseSol Z. BloomenkranzJoseph BlumMarc-Michael BlumConstantin R. Boden

Bruce E. BoeversMargaret BolesJoshua B. BoltenBrigitte G. BommBradley J. BondiDavid V. BonfiliMichael P. BornemannErnestine BradleyPhilip O. BrandesRainer BraunVincenz von BraunAndreas K. BremerAlexander M. BrillCharles N. BrowerKeirn C. Brown, Jr.Reginald J. BrownReinhard BruchViktoria BruellerChristian C. BruneSiegfried BrunnerOliver G. BuckMartin BussmannJohn J. CalamanMarnite CalderEdwina S. CampbellJoseph F. Campbell, Jr.Claus von CampenhausenJohn CanadyRichard J. CaplesTheodore N. CarterM. Blouke CarusDagmar A. CassanTed J. ChiappariUwe ChristiansVolker ChristiansJames W. CicconiAnne E. CohenE. Thomas ColemanRussell F. ColemanAnthony J.R. CookJay W. CooperAlexander H. CordesElizabeth E. CovingtonLew W. CramerMelinda CreasmanLee CullumKenneth W. DamBal G. DasChristine DaviesChristine U. DavisLauren K. DayHans W. DeckerBern E. DeichmannErin F. DelaneyLogan D. Delany, Jr.Ruth E. DenkDavid W. DetjenDieter DettkeFrances A. DevlinDennis C. DickersonCharlotte DienerAndreas Dische

Carl DittrichCharles W. DittrichAnnette Doll-SellenJeffrey J. DonarskiKaren DonfriedRobert J. DonzeMarisa DopplerGeorge A. EberstadtAlan E. van EgmondJuliane H. van EgmondMarcus EhrhardtBjoern Peter EmdeAlexandra EngelJoseph M. ErwinAndre EsperlingMiguel EstienFlorian von EybRonald L. FarisAnnamaria FatoTibor FedkeJeffrey D. FeltmanRobert L. Fenstermacher,

Jr.Heidi B. FentonCharles K. Fewell, Jr.Anthony J. FioreRobert J. FiorePeter FischerMiles FisherRichard W. FisherJustin FoxAndrew D. FrankAndrew V. FrankelMarc E. FreyJohn G. FroemmingAlton FryeJohannes K. GabelThomas GaissmaierShelley A. GalbraithDaniel Martin Gallagher,

Jr.Paul GallagherJohn GalvinKristina L. GarciaJohn S. GardnerHenrike Garkisch-MobedJohn D. GattoBernd GeelsKarl GeerckenGary L. GeipelAlexander GeiserJames W. GerardMichael A. GerlichHans-Michael GiesenJarobin GilbertRichard P. GildeaIrene Magers GingoldJoel GlassmanHeather K. GodsmarkGuido GoldmanFrank K. GottschalkEric C. Graage

George R. GranholmGregor F. GregorichGunther E. GreinerStephen C. GrillHartmut G. GrossmannJuergen GrossmannQuirin GrossmannBenjamin T. GroverMarkus GrueneislAlbert E. GuarnieriTim GuertlerAndrew GundlachClaudia HaggJoann HalpernMichael HaltzelDaniel S. HamiltonHugh G. Hamilton, Jr.Michael G. HanpeterPeter B. HansonJohn A. HargravesWilliam R. HarmanCharles S. HarrisHope M. HarrisonThomas J. Harrold, Jr.Florian HartmannJuliane HaukeAnn Marie HauserGregory F. HauserCharles B. HeckThomas M. HeeringH.A. Tillmann HeinAndrej W. HeinkeRalph HeinsRolf H. HeitmeyerSteffen HemmerichLeon Hen-TovHansjörg HeppeRosario E. HeppeTorsten HerbstJudith F. HernstadtKarl G. HeroldJohn M. Herrmann IIWilliam HetzlerChristoph W. HeuerEdward T. HightowerHauke HintzeMichael W. HodinJuergen von HoevellAndrew L. HoffmanFrancis O’Brien HoganOliver HohenstatterJorn A. HollJames F. HollifieldArthur W. HollingsworthH. Friedrich HolzapfelMarion D. HombachRodney E. HoodAstrid HoranRichard HornikScott HortonRudolph S. HouckErik Hower

Josef HuberThomas L. HughesRichard M. HuntWilliam E. HuntStephen K. HunterSarmad HussainAmy Fay IsaacsMary Jo Jacobi-JephsonOle JaniKonrad H. JarauschJames F. JeffreyJames L. Johnson, Jr.Helge JordanMonu JosephIrmintraud JostAchim A. JungbluthKenneth I. JusterUlrich KahlowKarl KaiserJan-Friedrich KallmorgenSusan L. KaramanianPeter H. KaskellYusef M. KassimSebastian F.C. KaufmannChristopher A. KeberH. 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 KleinschmidtBenjamin KnoedlerArend Julius KochF. Peter KohlerJohn C. KornblumSven KorndoerfferMelissa KovacsMax KownatzkiTorsten H. KrachtRichard H. KreindlerGerald KromerUwe KruegerDennis R. KruseChristina M. KsollRoger M. KubarychSusanne KuhnKaren A. Kurrasch

2014 Roster of Individual Members

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Donald B. KurschBirgit KurtzBrian K. KurzmannBarbara KutscherArthur B. LabyOliver Schulte LadbeckKelly Parsons LaiUte Wolff LallyChristoph LangeInge LaSusaHans LeamanMarc LemckeKurt LeopoldMarne LevineKatrin LewertoffThorsten LiebertW. Walton LilesAndreas LindemannAbigail T. LinningtonJohn LipskyAlexander S.J. LisAurelian J.A. LisEric C. LiuEric H. LoebJames F. LoveJohn David LoviAllyson M. LoweOliver LuckPaul Michael LutzelerAlan S. MacDonaldHeinz W. MachatzkeLuisa MaierThilo MaierVada O’Hara ManagerChristian MandersMichael T. MarquardtBrian K. MarsicanoMichael S. MathewsCharles B. MathiasMargarita MathiopoulosErnst-Richard

MatthiensenGale A. MattoxPatricia MatzyeAndrew L. MayColette MazzucelliGray McCalley, Jr.John J. McCloy IIJohn Jay McCloy IIIRush McCloyEdward S. McFaddenIan McKechnieSusan McKeeJoseph McLaughlinMichael E. McMahonLawrence C. McQuadeVera McVeyDale MedearisSharon I. MeersLois Pattison de MenilCharles H. Merriman IIICatherine S. Meschievitz

Hermann G. MichaeliJens MilbrandtTanja MildenbergerRay MilesScott L. MillerRobin MishraAndrew K. MittagAchim MoellerOliver Karl MolitorAttila MolnarMaureen R. MonaghanMargaret C. Monahan-

BoppKenneth B. MossClaus MuellerGerd D. MuellerThomas MuellerDennis MulhauptBryan T. MullinsDavid A. MurdochDeroy MurdockPhilip D. MurphyRobert L. MurphyTammy S. MurphyIan P. MurrayMark NaskiSanjiv NathwaniSandra NavidiBenjamin NelsonGregory F. NemetPeter NeumannPhilip M. NicholsChris NickersonJohn D. NicolayWolfram NolteStephen J. ObermeierFred J. O’ConnorEdward B. O’Donnell, Jr.Sven C. OehmeManfred OhrensteinJohn P. OlsenMichael L. OrsoJuergen R. OstertagJeremiah P. OstrikerMartin OttPaul I. OverbyNorbert PanekJennifer L. ParentiJohn J. ParisiLawrence M. ParksHarald PaumgartenRuth A. PechauerPaul W. PendorfMichael P. PetersiliaJonathan PetropoulosThomas PetzDavid H. PfeifferChristian PfrangMarguerite B. PlattDale L. PonikvarBruce D. PorterDamon S. Porter

Richard 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 RannigerMilan J. RebanCraig RedingerMarc RedlichKimberly A. ReedElke RehbockHeiko ReinhardFred W. ReinkeGuy A. ReissJames M. RhodesAnne C. RichardDietmar M. RiegJohn E. RiellyJoe RitchieUwe RobbenRichard T. RobertsHolger RoehlBenjamin RohéDominik RohéEberhard H. RöhmKai R. RohrschneiderTobias RosefeldtGitta RottDavid M. RubensteinJarrett W. RussellReid RutherfordPaul Joseph RyanJustin D. RzepkaMarietta Lutze SacklerRosemary SagarLarry D. SallW.E. Tige Savage, Jr.Justin SayfieBruce SchachneChrista Maria SchanzHarry Carl SchaubDavid A. ScheffelUlrike K. SchlaflyHolger SchlageterBenjamin SchliemannGero SchliessHans-Jörg SchmedesVicki SchmelzerKarl H. SchmidtJulia Schmidt-WilkeDieter A. Schmitz

John P. SchmitzJoseph E. SchmitzWinfried F. SchmitzThomas F. SchneiderAnne J. SchollHagen SchremmerKatja SchremmerBenedikt Freiherr von

SchroderAugustus O. Schroeder, Jr.Christopher M. SchroederSebastian SchwarkThomas A. SchwartzKathrin SchwesingerBrent ScowcroftWilliam B. SellersWilli SemmlerRobert L. ShaferHarry ShannonRenate M. SharpJohn P. ShayA. Bradley ShingletonStacey B. SilvaDonald R. SkinnerWalter B. SlocombeNina SmidtSarah SmileyMark D. SmithWilliam Y. SmithJeffrey SmollerW. Richard SmyserJed C. SnyderSteven E. SokolMartin SpeckesserJerry I. SpeyerMatthias SpielkampSolveig B. SpielmannBart SponsellerAndrew F. StaabWalter E. StadtlerT. Eiko StangeRuth Ann StaufferClemens von StechowMartin SteinwandMark StencelAngela E. StentFritz R. SternPeter StockfischCarol Kahn StraussHarlan J. StraussEva-Maria StreierDominik M. StuehlerHerbert W. StuppErik F. SwabbEdward TanenbaumSteven H. ThalJuergen H. ThiemeJeffrey Alan ThinnesKen D. TidwellSebastian B. TigerJohn Tokolish IIIMarc M. Tract

Austin TriggsH. Anton TucherSusanne S. Nienaber von

TürkEric UelandGertje UtleyJessica Vanden BergGabe Shawn VargesMarkus K. VeithKurt F. ViermetzKlaus D. VogtSylvia B. VogtElizabeth A. VoightPaul A. VolckerChristina VoulgarelisNadine M. WachterDavid Wagstaff IVNicola WalterBettina WarburgMarie M. WarburgSarah WarburgStanford S. WarshawskyYelberton R. WatkinsHelge H. WehmeierFelix WeinachtKonrad M. WeisSidney N. WeissWolfgang WeissMatthew G. WellsJeffrey D. WernerRoland WernerRobert P. WesselyJohn C. WhiteheadBettina WiedmannDirk WillerCatherine Barr WindelsThomas S. WindmullerH. Alexander Wise, Jr.David WisowatyPeter WolframDavid T. WolfsonGeoffrey T. WoolleyV. Thomas Worrall IVBernd J. WuebbenAndreas M. WuestCurtis J. YoakumAndrew D. ZacksTodd C. ZapolskiAndreas G. ZetzscheKarl ZiebarthDonald ZirkleRobert B. ZoellickYuming ZouMirt Zwitter-Tehovnik

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Grants and Foundation Support

• Anna-Maria and Stephen KellenFoundation

• Anonymous • European Recovery Program

– Transatlantic Program • German Marshall Fund of the

United States • The Halle Foundation • Robert Bosch 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

Anne E. CohenRobert M. KimmittJoseph McLaughlinDale L. PonikvarUlrike K. SchlaflyStanford S. Warshawsky

$1,000 to $4,999

Sol Z. BloomenkranzJoseph F. CampbellAnthony J.R. CookLee CullumDavid W. DetjenAttila MolnarChristopher M. SchroederKurt F. ViermetzMarie M. WarburgRobert B. Zoellick

$500 to $999

Courtney AdanteMarc BitzerErnestine BradleyKenneth W. and Marcia W. DamHans W. DeckerRuth E. DenkJeffrey D. FeltmanKarl GeerckenGary L. GeipelJuergen GrossmannKenneth I. JusterChristoph LangeJohn LipskyDavid A. MurdochHarry Carl SchaubKlaus D. VogtThomas S. Windmuller

To $499

Michaela AbelsMichael A. AlmondPeter S. AlwardtPaul Stewart AtkinsReinhard AugustinWolfgang Baare-SchmidtLawrence A. BauerGregg E. BauerFlorian BeckerMaximilian von BelowSven BerggoetzSebastian G. BiedenkopfJohannes M. BiermannJ.D. BindenagelRobert A. BlackBruce E. BoeversBrigitte G. BommVincenz von BraunCharles N. BrowerKeirn C. Brown, Jr.Oliver G. BuckDagmar A. CassanRussell F. ColemanJay W. CooperAlexander H. CordesLew W. CramerBal G. DasAndreas DischeMarisa DopplerAlan E. van EgmondJuliane H. van EgmondAnthony J. FioreBernd GeelsHans-Michael GiesenHartmut G. GrossmannJoann HalpernCharles S. HarrisJuliane HaukeCharles B. HeckAndrej W. HeinkeLeon Hen-TovHansjörg HeppeJudith F. HernstadtHauke HintzeJosef HuberStephen K. HunterJames F. JeffreyUlrich KahlowJan KengelbachJ. Wilfried KischkatDietrich von KlaedenDennis R. KruseRoger M. KubarychSusanne KuhnOliver Schulte LadbeckKurt LeopoldThorsten LiebertJames F. Love

Oliver LuckChristian MandersCharles B. MathiasErnst-Richard MatthiensenGale A. MattoxCharles H. Merriman IIIHermann G. MichaeliTanja MildenbergerScott L. MillerRobin MishraAndrew K. MittagMargaret C. Monahan-BoppClaus MuellerGerd D. MuellerSandra NavidiPeter NeumannWolfram NolteJuergen R. OstertagMartin OttDamon S. PorterRichard W. PorterCaspar Graf von PreysingFabian RaddatzMonica RannigerAnne C. RichardJohn E. RiellyUwe RobbenDominik RohéKai R. RohrschneiderHolger SchlageterHans-Jörg SchmedesJulia Schmidt-WilkeHagen SchremmerKatja SchremmerKathrin SchwesingerJohn P. ShayStacey B. SilvaDonald R. SkinnerJed C. SnyderMartin SpeckesserMatthias SpielkampWalter E. StadtlerRuth Ann StaufferMark StencelPeter StockfischJuergen H. ThiemeJeffrey Alan ThinnesKen D. TidwellJohn Tokolish IIIH. Anton TucherGabe Shawn VargesElizabeth A. VoightNadine M. WachterHelge H. WehmeierRobert P. WesselyBettina WiedmannAngela E. YerginAndreas G. Zetzsche

Foundation and Individual Support

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Officers

ChairmanAmbassador RobertM. Kimmitt

Chairman EmeritusJohn Galvin

Vice ChairmanRichard M. Hunt

Honorary ViceChairmanPaul A. Volcker

President (ThroughOctober 31, 2014)William M. Drozdiak

Acting President (As ofNovember 1, 2014)William R. Harman

Executive VicePresidentKaren Furey

Vice President andDirector of ProgramsHelena Kane Finn

TreasurerWilliam R. Harman

CounselDale L. Ponikvar

Directors

Arthur Yorke Allen Senior Advisor Douglas Winthrop

Advisors LLC

Paul Stewart AtkinsChief ExecutivePatomak Global

Partners, LLC

Alex M. Azar IIPresidentLilly USA

Martin BussmannManaging DirectorMannheim LLC

James W. CicconiSenior EVP – External

and LegislativeAffairs

AT&T

Anne E. CohenOf CounselDebevoise &

Plimpton LLP

Lee CullumHost, “CEO”North Texas Media

David W. DetjenSenior CounselAlston & Bird LLP

William M. DrozdiakPresident (Through

October 31, 2014) American Council on

Germany

Ambassador RichardW. Fisher

President and CEOFederal Reserve Bank

of Dallas

Guido GoldmanDirector of German

StudiesMinda de Gunzburg

Center for EuropeanStudies at HarvardUniversity

Andrew GundlachDirectorArnhold and S.

BleichroederHoldings

William R. HarmanInvestorActing President (As of

November 1, 2014)American Council on

Germany

Richard M. HuntUniversity Marshal a.D.Harvard University

Professor Karl KaiserDirector, Transatlantic

Relations ProgramWeatherhead Center for

International AffairsHarvard University

Francis J. KellyManaging Director &

Global Coordinator,Public Affairs

Deutsche Bank AG

Ambassador RobertM. Kimmitt

ChairmanAmerican Council on

GermanySenior International

CounselWilmerHale LLP

Henry A. KissingerChairmanKissinger Associates,

Inc.

Brian K. KleinCo-Founder and

Managing MemberSteelhead Partners, Inc.

Klaus KleinfeldChairman and Chief

Executive OfficerAlcoa Inc.

Marne LevineChief Operating OfficerInstagram

Alan S. MacDonaldChief Client OfficerCitigroup Inc.

John J. McCloy IIChairman of the BoardGravitas Technology,

Inc.

Joseph McLaughlinSenior CounselSidley Austin LLP

Tammy S. Murphy TrusteeThe Murphy Family

Foundation

Dale L. PonikvarSenior Corporate Tax

Partner (ret.)Milbank, Tweed,

Hadley & McCloy LLP

Ulrike K. SchlaflyInternational

ConsultantThe Saint Louis

Brewery, Inc.

Christopher M.Schroeder

Internet Entrepreneurand Investor

Lieutenant GeneralBrent Scowcroft,USAF (ret.)

PresidentThe Scowcroft Group

Marie M. WarburgConsultantThe Medicines

Company

Staff

Robin Cammarota-Nicolson

Fellowship Manager

Robin DeichlerProgram and

DevelopmentCoordinator

William M. DrozdiakPresident (Through

October 31, 2014)

Helena Kane FinnVice President and

Director of Programs

Karen FureyExecutive Vice

President

Johanna GregoryProgram Manager

William R. HarmanActing President (As of

November 1, 2014)

Catherine HattenProgram Assistant

Michele RuehsSteinbuch

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