the Atlantic Initiative

Advisory Board Members of

* Dr. Rudolf Adam, President, German Embassy, Moskau
* Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, D.C.
* Prof. Dr. Arnulf Baring, Historian, Berlin
* Dr. Christoph Bertram, Hamburg
* Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, Fürstlich von Bismarcksche Verwaltung, Friedrichsruh
* Dr. Philipp v. Boehm-Bezing, BBSC Boehm-Bezing, Sieger & Cie., Stuttgart
* Dr. Mark Brzezinski, McGuireWoods, Washington, D.C.
* Jürgen Chrobog, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Berlin
* Thomas L. Farmer, American Bankers Association, Washington, D.C.
* Dr. Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt
* Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin, President, Radio Free Europe, Prague
* Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg, Secretary General Christian Social Union, Munich
* Prof. Dr. Helga Haftendorn, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
* Dr. John C. Hulsman, Ph.D., Oppenheim Scholar, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
* Dr. Michael J. Inacker, Metro AG, Berlin
* Dr. Jackson Janes, Director, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C.
* Marvin Kalb, Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
* Dr. Walther Leisler Kiep, Chairman Emeritus, Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin
* Eckart von Klaeden, Member of Parliament, Spokesman on Foreign Affairs for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Berlin
* Hans-Ulrich Klose, Member of Parliament, Committee on Foreign Relations, Berlin
* John Kornblum, Chairman Lazard Germany, Berlin
* Dr. Charles Kupchan, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
* Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Member of European Parliament, Brussels
* Dr. Kurt J. Lauk, Chairman, CDU Business Council (Wirtschaftsrat), Berlin
* Dr. Beate Lindemann, Executive Vice-Chairmann, Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin
* Heike MacKerron, Director for Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
* Dr. Norbert Otten, Direktor Policy Issues, Daimler AG, Stuttgart
* Cem Özdemir, MEP, Chairman Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Berlin
* Ruprecht Polenz, Member of Parliament, Chairman Committee on Foreign Relations, Berlin
* Avi Primor, Former Israeli Ambassador to Germany, Tel Aviv
* Andrew Rasiej, Founder and Publisher, Personal Democracy Forum, New York
* Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
* Prof. Dr. H.c. Horst M. Teltschik, Former President Boeing Germany, Berlin
* Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator of German-American Cooperation, Foreign Office, Berlin
* Lord Wallace, House of Lords, London

Founding Members of the Atlantic Initiative

* Dr. Johannes Bohnen, Member of the Board, Atlantische Initiative, Berlin
* Daniel Dettling, Chairman BerlinPolis, Berlin
* Jan-Friedrich Kallmorgen, Member of the Board, Atlantische Initiative, Berlin
* Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Member of European Parliament, Brussels
* Dr. Christoph Schwegmann, Federal Ministry of Defense, Berlin
* Andrea Stürmer, Zurich Financial Services, Zurich
* Dr. Rüdiger C. Sura, Deutsche Bank AG, Berlin
* Jan Techau, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
* Dr. Philip Christian Wachs, Managing Director Haus Rissen, Hamburg
* Magnus Prinz zu Wied, Huntsman Materials & Effects, Basel
* Tobias Wolny, Deutsche BP, Berlin
* Lars Zimmermann, Founder & Managing Partner, public policy group gGmbH, Berlin

About Atlantische Initiative


Atlantic-community.org is a project conducted by the Atlantische Initiative, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Berlin. The Atlantische Initiative was founded in 2004 in order to promote transatlantic cooperation and strengthen Germany’s foreign policy culture.

We believe that the challenges of the twenty-first century can only be overcome if Europe and North America work together. We endeavor to contribute to the development of a strategic community that encompasses all relevant social spheres: politics, business, academia, culture, and the media.

We seek to:

* Spread the message that today's transatlantic agenda is global: International challenges like terrorism, the energy crisis, and the rise of new powers in Asia demand a unified Western policy.
* Promote frank debates and collaboration between Europe and North America on issues of globalization and foreign policy.
* Cultivate and improve intellectual exchange across the Atlantic through increased networking opportunities between decision-makers, senior experts, as well as a new generation of students and future policy professionals.
* Promote and advance the future generation of decision-makers.
* Analyze foreign policy and the challenges of the twenty-first century in such a way that everybody can understand them. Our leitmotif is: Accessible Foreign Policy for Everybody!

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