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No Risk, No Gain?
Josef Ackermann speaks on the financial crisis to record number of dinner attendees
By Robin Mishra (Burns 2004)

"Taking risks" was a major theme of Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann's speech at this year's Arthur F. Burns dinner in Berlin. On home ground in the Berlin office of Deutsche Bank and on the eve of Barack Obama's visit to Germany, Ackermann analyzed the global financial crisis as one of the biggest challenges in politics, the economy and the media. Ackermann explained how too much risk-taking resulted in disastrous consequences for the world economy and outlined steps needed to overcome the current depression. He admitted that he had a road to Damascus experience during the crisis. But his pledge for more international as well as internal regulation did not mean that he had turned into a fearful man. "If you avoid all risks there is soon no risk to avoid," concluded Ackermann, and it sounded like a personal confession.

Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann

In Germany, the Swiss-born Ackermann figures as one of the most interesting faces in the financial world. On the one hand, he is one of the most influential German managers. His change of strategy empowered Deutsche Bank to remain among the top players in the world. During the financial crisis, Ackermann has promised that his bank will not need state money. As a professor at the London School of Economics and Chairman of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), he enjoys an esteemed reputation at the international level. On the other hand, investment banking was in the core of his strategy. His 25% return-on-equity target for Deutsche Bank has caused critical reactions from parts of the German public.

Thus it was no surprise that his dinner speech inspired discussions among his audience. "You cannot take it for granted that a banker exposes himself to questions in these times," commented Mark Kleber (Burns 1999) from ARD radio, but also said he was somewhat disappointed that he heard "no single word of self-criticism." Max von Klitzing (Burns 2004) promised that he and his colleagues will monitor if the CEO's analysis will transfer into actions. Frank Freiling, German coordinator and founder of the Burns program, stressed the "fascination" with Ackermann among German media—proven by the fact that more than half of all alumni living in Germany attended the dinner. This marks a new record in the history of the Berlin Burns dinner.

Carter Dougherty (Burns 1998) from the German bureau of The New York Times and International Herald Tribune raised the question whether bankers and journalists share the same loss of status within society. Josef Ackermann believes in the importance of both professions. For him, strong banks remain the heart of the economy and well-educated journalists are important to explain complicated issues. But he accused some journalists of just writing what their peers want to hear. "Do have the courage to write what you really think," said Ackermann, recommending more self-confidence.

After the main course, this year's Burns and Kennan prizes were awarded. Gregor Peter Schmitz from the Washington office of Spiegel Online was praised by the jury for his article "Obama's Dream." "When I started my Burns Fellowship in 1997, I considered U.S. journalists to be the greatest in the world," he remembered. "This hasn't changed much." The jury praised Andrew Curry's story about the secret legacy of the East German police as the most outstanding contribution by a U.S. journalist. Curry, who lives and works in Berlin, expressed his fascination with the important role historical analysis plays in German journalism. Niklas Maak from Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung won the Kennan award for his analysis of the architecture of the new American Embassy in Berlin. He thanked his wife for allowing him to write the article at home between five p.m. in the afternoon and three a.m. in the morning. (Please read more about the Burns awardees below).

A long night with good drinks and interesting conversation followed. Some of us, after very little sleep, headed to the five o'clock morning train to Dresden. We arrived just in time for the press conference of the U.S. president and the German chancellor. When Barack Obama declared Germany and the U.S. to be "close friends" and Angela Merkel praised the strong cooperation between the two countries, the political leaders reflected the good transatlantic understanding most Burns Fellows felt the evening before.

Robin Mishra (Burns 2004) is head of the Berlin bureau of the weekly Rheinischer Merkur. He has just published a book, How I learned to love politicians, about ways to strengthen Germans' enthusiasm for democracy.

Burns Alumnus Doug Blackmon Receives Pulitzer
By Maia Curtis

Douglas Blackmon (Burns 1991) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in April for his book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II.

Blackmon is currently The Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau chief, and has worked for the paper since 1995. As bureau chief, he manages the paper's coverage of major companies and institutions based in the southeastern U.S. He has also written extensively on race relations, including stories about the integration of schools during his childhood in the Mississippi Delta region and the connection between modern corporations and segregation.

Doug Blackmon at Burns Dinner in New York, Feb. 2008.

Slavery by Another Name is his first book and explores how a new form of slavery continued to thrive long after its legal abolition at the end of the Civil War. Based on extensive research, Blackmon describes how government officials collaborated with private businesses to arrest African-Americans on arbitrary charges, and then "leased" them to corporations and landowners in involuntary servitude, ostensibly to pay off the fines for their "crimes" and arrests. These crimes included changing employers without permission, vagrancy or false pretense. As The New York Times review highlights, although a fine for "gaming" would be 10 days of work in a mine, "it would take an additional 104 days for him to pay fees to the sheriff, county clerk and witnesses who appeared at his trial."

The conditions for these newly enslaved African-Americans were brutal and many did not survive their "lease." Blackmon's book identifies specific corporations and wealthy families who profited most from laws which were designed to "criminalize black life." This neoslavery did not finally end until the 1940s.

The book has received outstanding reviews, and in its announcement, the Pulitzer Prize Board described the book as "a precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity."

The New York Times declares the book "relentless and fascinating" and Publishers Weekly calls it "groundbreaking and disturbing."

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviewer writes:

Slavery by Another Name is a formidably researched, powerfully written, wrenchingly detailed narrative of the mistreatment of millions of blacks in America, mistreatment that kept African-Americans in shackles of the body and mind long after slavery had officially ended.

The decades of "re-enslavement," Blackmon argues, must be taken into account when trying to assess the damage done to African-Americans by centuries of involuntary servitude.

"Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the U.S. must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, didn't end until 1945," he writes.

Doug Blackmon told the Burns program that the project "actually has its roots, or at least one root, in my Burns association and general interest in Germany. The initial idea for the story that led to the book stemmed from my curiosity about how differently Germany and the U.S. have been compelled to confront each society's own great crimes. When the U.S. administration came out in the late 1990s strongly in support of the plaintiffs in the German slave labor lawsuits and the Swiss gold cases, I began asking what would be found if I examined U.S. companies through the same exacting lens. That ultimately led me to a story of American corporate reliance on slave labor in the 20th century." That article subsequently led to his book.

Atlanta Magazine also highlights this connection in its review:

In recent years, German corporations that relied on Jewish slave labor during World War II and Swiss bankers who robbed Holocaust victims of their fortunes have faced tough questions about what they owe the descendants of the people they wronged. In raising those same questions about prominent families in Atlanta, Birmingham, and beyond, Blackmon has probably wrecked any chance of being invited to join a country club. But he's brought to light another sickening reminder of the insidious nature of prejudice.

This haunting book uncovers a largely unknown chapter of U.S. history and disputes the conventional wisdom that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. As Charles J. Ogletree, Jr, executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School wrote, "Douglas Blackmon has written a book that covers largely uncharted grounds. While much has been written about the horrors of slavery, Blackmon's well researched and powerfully written book reminds us of the ugly period on racial subjugation in America AFTER the end of slavery. This book adds a missing chapter in America's troubled history on the issue of race, and should be required reading in every classroom in America."

Extensive Research Pays Off For 2008 Burns Award Winners
by Mario Scherhaufer

The 2008 Burns and Kennan Award winners focus on the hopes of the African-American civil rights movement with Barack Obama's historic election; on Germany's struggle with releasing Stasi police secrets; and on an American identity crisis displayed in its new embassy building in Berlin.

Gregor Peter Schmitz (Burns 1997), Washington correspondent for Der Spiegel, won the German Burns Award for "Obama's Traum (Obama's Dream)," published in the October 2008 Spiegel Special USA issue. Schmitz focused on a central theme of last year's U.S. presidential election: the African-American civil rights movement. In his article, Schmitz discusses the hopes of black civil rights activists and their role in the election of Barack Obama. But Schmitz also strikingly explains the disappointment of some within the movement, like Jesse Jackson, who was only a minor feature in Obama's campaign. This inconsistency is described vividly and extensively by the author, whose in-depth research impressed the jury.

Andrew Curry (Burns 2003), who currently freelances from Berlin, won the U.S. Burns Award for "Piecing together the dark legacy of East Germany's secret police," published in the February 2008 edition of Wired magazine. Considering that Curry's article on Germany's Stasi past is a marginal issue for U.S. readers, the fact that the magazine printed this considerably long story in its entirety is impressive. This is due to Curry's dramatic writing, which artfully explains the tedious puzzle work of regenerating the Stasi files, while relating the personal story of an employee of the agency in charge of the files. The jury felt that Curry covered this difficult topic in an entertaining and captivating way without losing focus on the story's depth or significance.

Burns Award winners Andrew Curry (2003) and Gregor Peter Schmitz (1997) at the June alumni dinner in Berlin.

The two 2,000-Euro prizes are awarded by Germany's Foreign Minister. Both Curry and Schmitz received their honors at the annual Burns alumni dinner and lecture on June 4 in Berlin.

In addition, two German and one American Burns alumni received honorary mentions by the jury. Silvia Feist (Burns 2000) was honored for her article "Der nächste Einsatz (The Next Deployment)," published in the August edition of Germany's Emotion magazine. The story covered two American soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan; and subsequently competed at the Paralympics in Beijing. Peter Wagner (Burns 2007) received the mention for "Meine Jagd nach dem Autogramm von Obama (My Quest for the Autograph of Obama)," a humorous piece that ran on jetzt.de, the youth page of Süddeutsche Zeitung, on October 27, 2008. Michael Giglio (Burns 2008) received an honorary mention for "Americans Deported to Frankfurt," a rarely covered story about the fate of Americans stranded in Germany, which ran in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung during his fellowship there last summer.

The 2,000-Euro George F. Kennan Commentary Award went to Niklas Maak, Berlin correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, for his story "Die Botschaft der Botschaft (The Message of the Embassy)," published on April 20, 2008. In a year with no lack of commentary about the outgoing and incoming U.S. president, Maak managed to describe an American identity crisis in his unusual architectural critique of the new U.S. embassy in Berlin. "If a house could stand with crossed arms, this is what it would look like," Maak wrote of the new fortress-style building at Pariser Platz in Berlin Mitte. "The embassy is the picture of a country traumatized by 9/11 and the effects of globalization; a nation that is so armored up, it can no longer see the world."

From left: Frank-Dieter Freiling, Burns trustee and coordinator; Martina Johns, Burns alumna, IJP director and coordinator for the Asia fellowships; Mathias Döpfner, Burns alumnus and CEO of Axel Springer; and IJP director Vassilios Theodossiou, coordinator for Northern Europe fellowships.

The jury also gave an honorary mention to Süddeutsche Zeitung correspondent Nikolaus Piper for his commentary piece "Wendejahr 2008 (Year of Change 2008)," published on December 31, 2008. The jury credited Piper's work for its outstanding analysis and foresight, as he tied economic politics to world politics.

The jury for both awards was comprised of journalists Sabine Christiansen, Dr. Christoph von Marschall (Tagesspiegel), Claus Strunz (Hamburger Abendblatt), Florian Illies (Die Zeit/Monopol) and Dr. Dominik Wichmann (Süddeutsche Zeitung), as well as Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling (ZDF) and Martina Nibbeling-Wriessnig (Foreign Ministry of Germany).

The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship News is published four times a year by the International Center for Journalists.

Burns Program Staff:

Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, IJP
Mario Scherhaufer, Program Director, ICFJ
Maia Curtis, ICFJ Consultant
Michelle Mathew, Program Officer, ICFJ

Named in honor of the late former U.S. ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former Federal Reserve Board chairman, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program fosters greater understanding of German–U.S. relations among future leaders of the news media.

The Burns program was established in 1988 in Germany by the Internationale Journalisten-Programme (formerly the Initiative Jugendpresse) and was originally designed for young German journalists. In 1990, the fellowship expanded to include American journalists, making it a true exchange.

Each year 20 outstanding journalists from the United States and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries. The program offers 10 young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as "foreign correspondents" for their hometown news organizations.

Fellows work as part-time staff members at host newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations. In addition to covering local news, fellows report on events for their employers back home, while learning more about their host country and its media.

This competitive program is open to U.S. and German journalists who are employed by a newspaper, news magazine, broadcast station or news agency, and to freelancers. Applicants must have demonstrated journalistic talent and a strong interest in U.S. - European affairs. German language proficiency is not required, but is encouraged.

IJP board members from left: Mathias Döpfner, Deutsche Bank CEO and guest of honor at the Berlin dinner Josef Ackermann, Sabine Christiansen, Lars Josefsson, Rüdiger Frohn, Helmut Schäfer and Chairman Tessen von Heydebreck.

The Burns Fellowship program
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June 2009 | Vol. 18, No. 2

Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling

Dear Friends,

In a few weeks, the new Burns fellows of 2009 will start their fellowships in their respective partner country. I hope you will welcome them with open arms and help them settle in as much as you can. You can find the list of new fellows and their placements in this newsletter.

Some of you already had a chance to meet the new German fellows at the Burns annual dinner in Berlin on June 4, where guest of honor and CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, spoke to nearly 140 alumni, trustees and sponsors. American alumni will have a chance to meet all the fellows at the reception given by Ambassador Klaus Scharioth at his Washington residence on July 22. I hope many of you will attend, although I know how difficult it can be to travel to Washington just for a dinner. But I promise you that meeting the U.S. trustees and the new fellows, not to mention a beautiful evening at the embassy, will make it worth the effort.

Meanwhile we encourage you to look at the online alumni portal, which has all the details for upcoming alumni trips, other fellowships similar to the Burns program, and details to apply for a Burns research grant of up to $4,000�enabling you to cover transatlantic topics which your news organization might be unable to finance. Grants for 2009 are still available!

Finally, in this newsletter you can read about this year�s Burns and Kennan Award winners, who each received their impressive award certificate and 2000 Euro prize at the Burns Dinner in Berlin. Congratulations!

I wish you all a rewarding, peaceful and hopefully sunny summer. And I hope to see you again soon, either in Washington or Berlin in the autumn.

Best,
Frank

1990
Michael Amtmann joined Filmfest München as their press spokesman in March.

1991
Doug Blackmon, currently working for The Wall Street Journal out of Atlanta, won a Pulitzer Prize for his non-fiction book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

1992
In addition to her job at The Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher co-produces and co-hosts �D: All Things Digital,� a major high-tech and media conference.

1997
Richard David Precht published a new book Liebe at Goldman, following his phenomenally successful first volume.

1999
Margaret Rankin left her position at Kingfisher in London late last year and took off on a trip around the world. Her goal is to open a wellness resort in the next few years. She is currently the media relations director for the Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary and Holistic Spa in Koh Samui, Thailand.

2000
Miriam Falco welcomed baby Michael Vasil Falco-Furnad in April (below). She is still with CNN in Atlanta.

2003
Waltraud Kaserer survived the change of leadership in Austria and still works as spokeswoman for Austria�s minister of economics.

2004
Max von Klitzing started his own production company freeeye.tv in Hamburg, focusing on web television. NDR TV also recently aired his two-part, 90-minute documentary �Durch die Wildnis Amerikas - 3000 Km zu Fuß,� about his trek along the Appalachian Trail. Robin Mishra, welcomed a baby girl, Nora Josefine, on April 26. He also published Wie ich lernte, die Politiker zu lieben at Herder. Parliamentary party leaders Wolfgang Schäuble and Renate Künast introduced the book in Berlin in May. Paul Stinson was hired as the South Africa correspondent for the Arlington, Va.-based Bureau of National Affairs, a news service. His writing will focus on the environment, tax, business, privacy and trade.

2005
Daniela Gerson won a RIAS award for her radio feature entitled �Eine jüdische Enkelin auf Spurensuche in Berlin,� aired by Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 26, 2008. Stephanie Nannen gave birth to Annika Catalina Elise (below) on Feb. 23 in Hamburg, where she works for the Abendblatt.

2006
Nicole Markwald will move to Washington, D.C., in September to become junior correspondent for ARD Radio, taking over for fellow alumnus Robert Kiendl.

2007
Phillip Abresch moved to Singapore in March where he works as ARD�s junior correspondent for South East Asia.

2008
Tony Ganzer moved to Berlin for a Bosch Fellowship where he will live for at least a year. Georg Kern welcomed a son, Anton (below), last November.

Wednesday, July 22: Reception for 2009 Fellows, Washington, DC. Residence of German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth

2009 Program Dates
July 21-26: Group orientation in Washington, DC
July 27-Oct. 2: Fellowship at host media organizations

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2009 German Fellows:

(Host media in parenthesis)

Roman Deininger
Trainee, S�ddeutsche Zeitung,
Ingolstadt, Bavaria (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Fredy Gareis
Freelance Journalist, Der Spiegel, Berlin (Chicago Tribune)
Roman Kessler
Editor, Dow Jones, Frankfurt
(The Wall Street Journal)
Barbara Leidl
Reporter, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich (Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland)
Roman Pletter
Editor, Brand Eins, Hamburg
(The Washington Post)
Stefan Tomik
Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Doris Tromballa
Reporter, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich (WPBT, Miami)
Gregor Waschinski
Editor, AFP, Berlin
(Orange County Register, Santa Ana)
Björn Winter
Editor, Sat 1, Hamburg (KGW - Northwest NewsChannel 8, NBC affiliate, Portland, OR)

2009 U.S. Fellows:

(Host media in parenthesis)

Harold Brubaker
Staff Writer, Philadelphia Inquirer (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)
Helen Chang
Freelance Journalist (focus on arts, culture & science), Vienna, Austria (Financial Times Deutschland, Hamburg)
Helen Fields
Freelance Journalist (focus on science, formerly with National Geographic magazine and U.S. News & World Report), Washington, DC (Welt/Welt am Sonntag, Berlin)
David Francis
Freelance Journalist (focus on politics, energy and business), Washington, DC (Financial Times Deutschland, Berlin)
Milan Gagnon
Freelance Journalist (focus on culture & arts), Palm Desert, CA (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Essen)
Chris Hoff
Freelance Reporter & Producer, 91.7 KALW Public Radio, San Francisco, CA (Bayerischer Rundfunk-Radio, Munich)
Moira E. Herbst
Writer, BusinessWeek, New York (Der Spiegel, Berlin)
Moises Mendoza
Hearst Fellowship Reporter, Houston Chronicle, TX (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)
Clay P. Risen
Managing Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Washington, DC (Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin)
Eric Ulken
Freelance Journalist (focus on new media and new information technology), Peachtree City, GA (Spiegel Online, Berlin)

U.S. Trustees

Patron: The Honorable Klaus Scharioth
German Ambassador to the United States
Joyce Barnathan
President, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Elizabeth Becker
Contributor to the International Herald Tribune and German Marshall Fellow
The Honorable J.D. Bindenagel
Vice President, Community, Government & International Relations, DePaul University
Dr. Kurt Bock
Chairman and CEO, BASF USA
Marcus W. Brauchli
Executive Editor, The Washington Post
The Honorable Richard Burt
Senior Advisor, McLarty and Associates (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Martin Bussmann
Mannheim LLC
Nikhil Deogun
International Editor and Deputy Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
David W. Detjen
Partner, Alston & Bird, LLP
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
Director, Internationale Journalisten-Programme (IJP)
Prof. Dr. Ronald Frohne
President and CEO,
GWFF USA, Inc.
Rick Goings
Chairman and CEO, Tupperware Brands Corporation
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Editor, Foreign Affairs (Honorary Chairman)
Fred Kempe
President and CEO, The Atlantic Council of the United States
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Chairman, Kissinger Associates
The Honorable Frank E. Loy
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (Chairman)
Senator Richard G. Lugar
United States Senator (R-Ind.)
Wolfgang Pordzik
Executive Vice President, Corporate Public Policy, DHL North America
Garrick Utley
President, Levin Institute, SUNY
Stanford S. Warshawsky
Chairman, Bismarck Capital, LLC
Legal Advisor:
Phillip C. Zane
Attorney at Law, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

German Trustees

Erik Bettermann
Director-General, Deutsche Welle
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege
German Ambassador to Brussels
Dr. Martin Blessing
CEO, Commerzbank AG
Maria Böhmer
State Minister, Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU
Tom Buhrow
Anchorman, ARD
Sabine Christiansen
Journalist, TV21 Media
Dr. Mathias Döpfner
CEO, Axel Springer AG
Thomas Ellerbeck
Chairman, Vodafone Foundation
Gernot Erler
State Minister, Foreign Office
Leonhard F. Fischer
Partner, RHJI Swiss Management
Rüdiger Frohn
Chairman, Stiftung Mercator
Emilio Galli-Zugaro
Head Group Communications, Allianz Group
Tessen von Heydebreck
Former Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank AG (Chairman)
Luc Jochimsen
Member of Parliament, Die Linke
Lars G. Josefsson
CEO, Vattenfall
Hans-Werner Kilz
Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Dr. Torsten-Jörn Klein
Board member, Gruner + Jahr AG
Carsten Maschmeyer
Chairman, AWD Holding
Prof. Bascha Mika
Editor-in-Chief, Die Tageszeitung
Kerstin Müller
Former State Minister, Member of Parliament, Buendnis 90/Die Grünen
Prof. Markus Schächter
Director-General, ZDF German TV
Helmut Schäfer
Former State Minister, Foreign Office (Honorary Chairman)
Monika Schaller
Senior Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Friede Springer
Publisher, Axel Springer AG
Franz Thönnes
State Secretary and Member of Parliament, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD)
Tobias Trevisan
CEO, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Lord George Weidenfeld
Former CEO, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Dr. Guido Westerwelle
Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP)
Ulrich Wilhelm
Government Spokesman

The Arthur F. Burns Board of Trustees in the United States and Germany acknowledges with gratitude the support of the following organizations and individuals who have made the 2009 Arthur F. Burns program possible.

Sponsors in the U.S.
Alston & Bird, LLP
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
BASF
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Continental Airlines
Deloitte & Touche
DHL North America
The Ford Foundation
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
GWFF USA, Inc.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Ladenburg Foundation
Mars Incorporated

Individual Contributions
John and Gina Despres
David Detjen
The Hon. Frank E. Loy
Stanford S. Warshawsky

Sponsors in Germany
Allianz AG
Auswärtiges Amt.
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
Deutsche Bank AG
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Siemens AG