ORGANIZATION

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

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

Location:
Berlin, Germany

Founding Date:
1997

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John P. Birkelund	Business	23-Jun-1930		Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98
Stephen B. Burbank	Educator	c. 1946		UPenn Law Professor
Gahl Hodges Burt	Socialite	?		Nancy Reagan's social secretary, 1983-85
Caroline Bynum	Historian	1941		Medieval historian
Gerhard Casper	Educator	25-Dec-1937		President of Stanford University, 1992-2000
Thomas L. Farmer	Attorney	26-Jul-1923	5-Feb-2015	Overseas Development Council
Julie Finley	Socialite	c. 1938		US Ambassador to the OSCE
Vartan Gregorian	Educator	8-Apr-1934		President of Carnegie Corporation
Karl M. von der Heyden	Business	?		Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001
Richard C. Holbrooke	Diplomat	24-Apr-1941	13-Dec-2010	US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Josef Joffe	Editor	15-Mar-1944		Editor of Die Zeit
Henry Kissinger	Government	27-May-1923		US Secretary of State, 1973-77
John Kornblum	Diplomat	6-Feb-1943		US Ambassador to Germany, 1997-2001
James Mann	Author	18-Sep-1946		Rise of the Vulcans
Diane McWhorter	Journalist	1-Nov-1952		Carry Me Home
Norman Pearlstine	Journalist	4-Oct-1942		Former Time Inc. Editor in Chief
David M. Rubenstein	Business	c. 1949		Director of the Carlyle Group
Amity Shlaes	Columnist	1960		The Forgotten Man
Fritz Stern	Historian	2-Feb-1926		German historian
Richard von Weizsäcker	Head of State	15-Apr-1920	31-Jan-2015	President of Germany, 1984-94

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