Vol. 19 No. 4
FEATURED STORIES
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Embedded in Afghanistan: Female Marines seek to bond with Afghan women
By Stefanie Bolzen (Burns 2003)
It is 7:15 a.m. when Sergeant Melissa Hernandez loads the last box on the Humvee. The group, consisting of Hernandez, Corporal Michele Lucchina-Greco, their translator Zahra and 14 other Marines, had attended a short security briefing before heading to the gate of Forward Operation Base Delhi. The foot patrol slowly advances into Hazarajoft, a village of 5,000 people of the Noorzai tribe, situated next to the Helmand river. “We walk in a zig-zag line, two persons on each side of the road,” explains Major Tom McAvoy of 3rd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment. “So we can get better defense in case of an attack.”
Hernandez stays close to the Humvee as it is carrying a valuable delivery: half a dozen sewing machines that a U.S. charity has sent to this remote place in southern Afghanistan. They’re valuable because the old “Butterfly” machines are a tool of Hernandez’s mission here in Garmsir District: to bond with the female population. The 36 year old Sergeant has been trained as one of the first 40 soldiers that the U.S. Marines has ever deployed as “Female Engagement Teams” (FET). There was a similar project before in Iraq, the “Lioness,” in which women soldiers helped do controls at checkpoints after the number of suicide attacks by females had gone up dramatically.
But the FET goes far beyond this. It is the first time that women—who make up eight percent of the total U.S. Marines staff—are directly involved in action at the frontline. They are not meant to be active in combat; but any foot patrol into a southern Afghan bazaar can become combat as there is the constant risk of suicide bombers, snipers and IEDs.
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Cpl. Michele Greco-Lucchina
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Still, despite carrying her M4 rifle, Hernandez’s job is a different one: The FET seek to build trust with women in the villages by simple actions: bringing them clothes for the children, medication and sanitary products, in areas where no NGO worker steps foot anymore. “So did you go and vote on election day?,” asks 22 year old Corporal Lucchina-Greco while she sips tea. The 13 women who have come to meet the female U.S. soldiers giggle. But Anar Ghul, who is something like a community leader and at whose house the meeting takes place, proudly shows the blue color on her forefinger. “I did go. But I only had one flyer from one candidate, so I voted for him as I did not know the others on the list.” The women giggle again. They are simple conversations with a part of the population that is incredibly suppressed and is almost a hundred percent illiterate, but that constitutes half of Afghanistan’s population. And for far too long it has been a blind spot in the International Security Assistance Force’s strategy as male foreign soldiers in this archaic country could never set up contact with a female.
Meanwhile Hernandez has set up the sewing machines in a container in the courtyard. The women’s eyes light up as they first inspect their new facility. “Nobody ever helps us,” says Anar Ghul as she grips Hernandez’s arm. “But this American woman is making a difference in our lives.”
Stefanie Bolzen is a 2003 Burns alumna and is currently based in Brussels as the EU and NATO correspondent for the German daily WELT. In September she was embedded with 3rd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment in Garmsir/Helmand Province.
Embedded in Afghanistan: Security Gains
in the South
By David Francis (Burns 2009)
This October I traveled to Afghanistan with funding from an IJP research grant to report on the progress of the war and cooperation between the United States and European forces. In Kandahar and at other locations around the country, there is the feeling that the tide is turning against the Taliban. Recent advances by the Afghan National Army, supported by U.S. and coalition troops, have lowered the level of violence there.
Coalition officials have claimed that the Kandahar offensive, which began this summer and is concentrated in Kandahar City, as well as the Arghandab Valley and the Zhari and Panjwaii districts, was a success. Evidence presented at the end of October was circumstantial: in-depth battlefield reports have not yet been made available. Officials in Washington, meanwhile, say the Kandahar offensive has made only marginal gains that are unsustainable.
But the circumstantial evidence presented does appear to show that the offensive is working. The primary goal of the offensive early in October was to clear areas like the Arghandab—an isolated, fertile valley west of the city and one of the last remaining Taliban strongholds—of mines and improvised explosive devices hidden throughout its grape and pomegranate fields. When troops first began their work, coalition casualties were heavy. By the end of October, the number of casualties suffered by the coalition had gone down. Brigadier General Ben Hodges, commander of military operations at Regional Command South, the military command that covers Kandahar, said the Arghandab is “90 to 95 percent clear of the Taliban, compared to 50 percent last month. We’ve made real progress.”
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| David Francis with Kandahar City and the Arghandab Valley in background. |
Kandahar City also appears to be safer. Attacks against coalition forces in the city are down signifi-cantly. The most serious contact that soldiers have with the local population is rocks thrown by children at vehicles on patrol. According to Hodges, the Taliban has been forced out of strongholds within the city, and has been replaced with common criminals. “I would never think every bad thing that happens is the Taliban sitting in the cave somewhere planning,” Hodges said. “Surely some of it is, but a lot of people have tried to wrap themselves in the cloak of the Taliban.” He says “good old fashioned criminals or thugs are responsible for most violence within Kandahar.”
That is not to say that the threat of violence does not exist there. I was embedded with Charlie Company, combat engineers that are part of the Army’s Task Force Raider. Their job is to patrol Kandahar City, to make sure that redevelopment projects are on schedule, and to collect intelligence through contact with the local population. On a recent patrol of Malajat, a green flatland on the edge of Kandahar City, two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonated close to our position. Toward the end of the patrol, we came across a barren field with rocks piled next to a narrow path. Half of the platoon was walking along the path when the lead soldier spotted batteries underneath one of the rock piles. “Possible IED!” he shouted, and Platoon Leader Mark Anderson ordered everyone to back out of the field in their own footsteps. It was a tense few minutes as the field was evacuated, and thankfully no one was hurt. But the scare was a reminder that Kandahar, like the rest of Afghanistan, is still a dangerous place.
The last stop on my trip was Regional Command North, where the Germans form the primary coalition force. While there, I reported on German efforts to retain control of the Kunduz province, despite limitations on the German military’s ability to engage in offensive war.
David Francis is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC, and Berlin. He writes frequently for The Christian Science Monitor, Sports Illustrated, The Fiscal Times and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications. He spent his fellowship in 2009 at Financial Times Deutschland in Berlin. This fall he spent three weeks in Afghanistan and two weeks in Germany through an IJP research grant.
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Fellowship Impressions
Advice to future fellows:
“The Burns alumni are a fantastic resource. They’re also fantastic people. Frank and Mario will tell you this at the orientation, and you should listen. In your first week in Germany, try to get a beer with as many recent fellows as you can. They will connect you to sources. They will suggest story topics. They will tell you about other great fellowship opportunities. They will let you crash on their girlfriend’s couch in Leipzig. Buy them beer/food. Show them gratitude. They are wonderful.”
- Aaron Wiener, Assistant Editor, The Washington Independent, Washington, DC, Hosted by: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Berlin
“My situation changed dramatically between the time I applied for the Burns and the time I accepted it: I moved from New York City to Vienna, Austria.
As a result, the Burns took on a new meaning for me. It was not just an opportunity to spend a little time working abroad, it was a bridge to my new life. Improving my German (I spoke very little), meeting my European colleagues, and learning more about reporting in Europe would be invaluable for my future.”
- Chelsea Wald, Freelance Writer & Editor, New York, NY, Hosted by: Deutsche Welle Radio/English, Bonn
“This was a fantastic program from beginning to end… From the Washington seminars to the language immersion classes at the Goethe Institute to my individual placement at Die Zeit Online in Berlin, each stage of the Burns Program was professionally valuable, interesting, and a tremendous amount of fun.”
- Shaun Halper, Freelance Reporter, New York City, NY, Hosted by: Die Zeit Online, Berlin
“As a Burns Fellow and correspondent [based in Texas], I pretty much had the 11th largest economy in the world, an area twice as big as Germany with more people than all of Scandinavia, to cover all by myself. In Washington and New York, correspondents step on each other’s toes...
My exotic status enabled me access to economic and political elites, to which greenhorns like me usually don’t have access. Even governor Rick Perry, a Texas cliché in flesh and blood, who some would love to see in the White House, granted me an interview. Even though Perry used a not insignificant part of the short time I had with him to express his enthusiasm for German beer and Oktorberfest—it doesn’t matter; the 20 minutes were one of the highlights of my fellowship.”
- Andreas Große Halbuer, Berlin Correspondent, Capital / G + J Wirtschaftsmedien GmbH, Berlin, Hosted by: Austin American-Statesman, Texas
“Baseball would come right after figure skating on my list of redundant sports. It’s dead boring. Nothing happens, and if it does, nobody understands it. And then I found myself running like crazy toward first base on a hot summer Saturday, raising my arms high into the air and screaming ‘I did it!’ My teammates screamed and laughed with me, and baseball—or rather the recreational version softball—became a great game…
The Chicago Tribune softball team lineup was strapped because of players going on summer vacation toward the end of the season, and they needed a catcher for the deciding game. I stepped up to the challenge. We won. I took it with equanimity that my question to colleagues if I needed to circle the bases clockwise or counter-clockwise was shared with the newsroom via email and produced amusement among colleagues for days to come.”
- Ulrich Schulte, Editor and Head Domestic News Writer, Tageszeitung, Berlin, Hosted by: The Chicago Tribune
“The City Desk turned out to be the right choice. The work with 20 colleagues was exciting, dynamic and multi-faceted. And I had work to do starting from day one. The city was in turmoil. The mayor decided to close fire stations for budget reasons on a rotational basis, but seemingly without a system. After a short introductory round with my new colleagues, I sat in the company car and drove to get the story…
Two hours later I was back in the newsroom and writing my first story. Two editors patiently and intensively re-worked my story. The editor-in-chief came to my desk the next day and yelled ‘first byline,’ and clapped me on the back. From this day on I became the ‘fireman,’ with four more stories devoted to the topic. When a four-year-old died in a fire, and the fire station nearby was closed for political reasons, the story became front page political material. Union reps, city councilmen and residents called me, wrote me emails. I have never gotten to know a city that quickly.”
- Michael Broecker, Bureau Chief, Rheinische Post, Berlin, Hosted by: Philadelphia Inquirer
“ I was able to conduct an adequate amount of research on gangs in Los Angeles during my fellowship. I experi-mented by documenting my research in my Süddeutsche Zeitung blog—in light of the ongoing debate on transparency in journalism, within the context of discussions about new media, and under the influence of American online journalism, which is practiced by the Los Angeles Times in innovative and impressive fashion. My publicized research became popular in Germany far beyond my home newsroom…”
- Johannes Boie, Reporter, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Hosted by: Los Angeles Times
“As I write this, I am in the U.S. preparing to return to Germany, perhaps indefinitely. During my fellowship, I went outside Munich to interview at another German radio station, and ended up with an offer to do a training program with the tantalizing prospect of a steady beat within the country afterwards. Who knows? The next time I am reporting abroad, my “foreign dateline” might be Washington, D.C.”
- Shant Shahrigan, Freelance Reporter, Voice of America, Washington, DC, Hosted by: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
“I returned to the U.S. refreshed, and with a new confidence that can only be forged by the fire of a serious German experience. I gained new tools for reporting cross-culturally, and I learned that yes, I can in fact not only work under circumstances that I find extremely intimidating, but that I can thrive there.
I’m a better journalist now. I struggled and pushed through linguistic walls and embarrassed myself more times than I have in any other newsroom, but I grew.”
- Krista Kapralos, Freelance Journalist, Washington, DC, Hosted by: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt
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“First and foremost, my faith in journalism was rekindled after working at a newspaper that managed to draw readers without resorting to the kind of gimmicks now so popular in the American media. It thrilled me to see the paper devote so much money and space to under-reported stories, for example news about women in developing countries. When I was sent to interview an Afghan women’s rights activist and given a whole column to write up a Q&A, I was ecstatic.
The program also rekindled my faith in fellowship—that peculiar academic construct that seeks to bring like-minded scholars together for an exchange of ideas. Always chasing after the next paycheck, I haven’t had the luxury of getting to know other journalists in a professional setting without an immediate business motive in mind. These two months afforded me that luxury. Quizzing my German hosts about their political system, asking German fellows about their jobs, commiserating with U.S. fellows about the state of American media—these conversations were such a pleasure, such a rare opportunity to learn and grow.”
- Dalia Fahmy, Freelance Journalist, Brooklyn, NY, Hosted by: WELT, Berliner Morgenpost, WELT am SONNTAG, Berlin
“Just as I was telling one of the editors how, prior to my flight to Miami, I watched ‘Cocaine Cowboys,’ a documentary about the cocaine-flooded Miami of the 1980s with the highest murder rate in the United States, in order to understand the city better, a reporter burst into the room. ‘There’s been a shooting; 17 year old shot in the head, one year old shot in the foot.’ The editor asked the German newbie with a smile: ‘Wanna go?’
 My first assignment for the Miami Herald couldn’t be more stereo-typical: a rundown building, yellow police tape, five camera teams. Nevertheless it was those breaking news stories that were the most exciting assignments during my time at the host newsroom. Miami is a great news-city: a lot of competition on the TV market, corruption, diversity, and above all still a lot of crime, which plays a big part in the local TV news.” - Henning Engelage, Freelance Journalist, Dortmund, Hosted by: Miami Herald
“My Burns Fellowship made me feel uncomfortable and awkward—and it’s the best thing that’s happened to me in a long time… It had been years since I felt the nervousness and discomfort from the kind of reporting I had done earlier in my career…Being challenged—even by the really minor things—made me remember why I became a journalist in the first place.”
- Gina Pace, Producer, CBSNews.com, New York, NY, Hosted by: Spiegel Online International, Berlin
“Although it’s important to establish those Burns goals, I would encourage anyone heading to Germany to be open to identifying new goals along the way. I may not have finally written my debut for The New York Times while I was in Munich, but I did learn that I have an opportunity to diversify my bag of media skills. In such a treacherous time for journalists across this country, what could be better than that realization?”
- Benjamin Cannon, Senior Reporter, Jackson Hole Weekly, Jackson Hole, WY, Hosted by: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Munich
 “It’s 7 a.m., the sun just risen. We are driving south to the Oregon Coast, to cover a Tsunami drill. The three of us with mugs of coffee in our hands, still a bit sleepy, listening to Nena, since Scotty, the photographer, says he loves her. Anne, the reporter, instead loves talking to me about her German ancestors. As every third American does. This is the way they make you feel comfortable and at home here. And I really feel comfortable and at home in this moment. Even if I don’t like Nena…I am more than thankful: The fellowship and my KGW colleagues gave me some of the happiest, most enriching weeks of my life. I will try to keep a bit of the “easy going” attitude for my newsroom back home. And I might even listen to Nena once in a while. Just to remember Oregon.”
- Susann Reichenbach, Anchor, MDR Aktuell, Erfurt, Hosted by: KGW-TV, Portland, OR
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Freedom of Expression in the Digital World
Freedom of the press and the challenges of the digital era were the topic of recent speeches given by Dr. Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer AG and a Burns alumnus and trustee, and Paul Steiger, CEO and editor-in-chief of ProPublica and a former Burns trustee. These media leaders shared insightful thoughts on the impact of the Internet on journalism and the broad range of challenges to freedom of the press at the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium in Potsdam, Germany, in September. Following are excerpts from their speeches. Please visit
http://www.icfj.org/OurWork/Fellowships/BurnsFellowships/LatestNews/FreedomofExpressionintheDigitalWorld/tabid/1832/Default.aspx to read the full text.
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“The four most important developments in the history of mankind are language, writing, printing and digitalization. It’s not the wheel, the engine, the car or the airplane. And neither gunpowder nor the pistol. Without language there can be no exchange of ideas and impulses. Without writing we could not record knowledge. Without printing there could be no widespread dissemination of knowledge or education. And without digitalization? The truth is we do not really know where digitalization will take us. We only suspect that it will lead to fundamental change and an opportunity to virtualize data, processes, encounters and personalities. And we sense that we are only on the threshold of this fourth major revolution of civilization.
The question facing us as we look at the press and democracy is: Will this revolution lead to freedom or will it become a coup for slavery?”
– Mathias Döpfner
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Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, hosted 2010 fellow Christian Salewski (right).
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“I don’t pretend to be an expert on Europe. I do know enough to persuade me that your countries and mine are facing, in different but related ways, a complex mix of great opportunities and great threats.
Threats, because the drain on revenue and profits at many organizations devoted to gathering and distributing news is reducing the numbers of talented and trained journalists that they can afford to employ.
Opportunities, because the Web offers a robust, accessible platform to all people who want to report what they see, argue what they believe, excoriate whom they fear, and publish what they are surreptitiously given. They also can publish what they can steal or hack into, and while I don’t endorse this, you can bet we are going to see more of it.
As a result, I foresee a media environment in Europe, North America and some other random parts of the world that is still free, perhaps even more free than before, and is more unpredictable, creative and exciting—but also, unless some important steps are taken, is less reliable.”
– Paul Steiger
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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
Leigh Burke, Burns Fundraising Consultant
Emily Schult, 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.
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Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
Dear Friends,
Another eventful year of Burns activities is coming to a close. The 2010 class has finished their fellowships, and you will find some impressions from their time overseas in this newsletter. Alumni had a chance to reconnect during the annual Burns Dinners in New York and Berlin, as well as during the U.S. Ambassador’s reception in March in Berlin and the German Ambassador’s reception in DC in July.
The research grants offered to all alumni are in steady demand and will be continued into 2011. The 2011 alumni dinners will be held in New York most likely on February 22 and in Berlin on June 1. In addition, there are plans for a first West Coast Dinner in San Francisco in mid-April. There will also be alumni trips and conferences offered in 2011, both focusing on Washington.
The Arthur F. Burns Awards and the George F. Kennan Commentary Award are open for entries and I hope you will submit your journalistic work from 2010 for consideration. The awards will be presented once again during the Berlin Dinner in June. You can see how we are now spending more time and funds on the alumni activities than we actually spend on the 20 new fellowships every year!
I hope that I will get a chance to see many of you during the events of 2011 and catch up with what has happened in your professional and private lives. For now I wish you some peace and rest over the holidays and all the best for a new year, blessed with health and happiness!
Yours,
Frank
1991
While on leave from her television job and caring for her two children, Angela Elis published a book on Bertha Benz, the wife and business partner of automobile inventor Carl Benz. The book is titled Mein Traum is länger als die Nacht (Hoffmann & Campe).
1995
Dominik Wichmann will leave his long-time post as editor-in-chief at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin on June 1, 2011, to become deputy editor-in-chief at the weekly news magazine Stern in Hamburg.
1996
Stefan Wichmann left Sat 1 in Berlin to become general manager of the production company Solis TV, also in Berlin.
1997
Carsten Kühntopp left Amman and moved to Dubai last summer to become ARD’s first Persian Gulf radio correspondent. Richard David Precht published his latest book Die Kunst, kein Egoist zu sein in October (Goldmann).
Based in Budapest, Drew Leifheit has been developing public relations and new media services (blogging, podcasting, etc.) for the energy sector, among others. This year he has been covering shale gas conferences (in Warsaw, Berlin and Vienna) for the website
www.NaturalGasfor
Europe.com. Drew has also started his own blog covering energy issues in Europe called “Oil & Gas Watch Europe”—
www.oilandgaswatch
europe.com.
1999
After 10 years overseas, Margaret Rankin returned to the U.S. in November to serve as media and communications director for LeashLocket, Ltd., the makers of a new kind of retractable dog leash, headquartered in Denver. For the past two years, Margaret has been director of media and PR at Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary & Holistic Spa on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand. She’ll continue to work for Kamalaya as a media consultant.
2000
Oliver G. Becker produced and directed an in-depth documentary film titled “South Sudan before the Referendum,” which aired on Al Jazeera on December 1.
2001
Cordula Tutt left the Berlin bureau of the weekly news magazine Focus, and now works as a writer for the Berlin bureau of the economics magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
2003
Stefanie Bolzen, Brussels correspondent for the daily Die Welt, spent ten days in September as an embedded journalist with the U.S. Marine Corps in Helmand, Afghanistan. After almost ten years with ZDF's investigative news magazine Frontal21, Thomas Reichart is now a correspondent with ZDF's Hauptstadtstudio covering Bundespolitik.
2005
Helen Fessenden changed jobs in September, leaving the National Journal’s CongressDaily to join Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting company, as an analyst for U.S. policy and politics.
2006
Joseph Yackley has spent the past year in Cairo, Egypt, and Istanbul, Turkey, as a Fulbright scholar. He continues to serve as an analyst with the Oxford Business Group while working towards his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
2007
Allison Connolly is now covering pharmaceutical companies for Bloomberg News in Frankfurt, after two years at Dow Jones in Frankfurt. Christian Rüttger, his wife Carolin and daughter Luzie welcomed Piet Jakob on October 26 in Berlin.
2010
Benjamin Nickel, after returning from his fellowship, joined SinnerSchrader AG in Hamburg as new head of corporate communications. Shant Shahrigian returned to Germany immediately after his fellowship to work in Bonn for Deutsche Welle in a paid traineeship.
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U.S. Trustees (2010-2013)
Patron: The Honorable Dr. Klaus Scharioth, German Ambassador to the United States
Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Elizabeth Becker, Journalist and Author
Amb. J.D. Bindenagel, Vice President, Community, Government and International Affairs, DePaul University
Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Managing Editor and International Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairman and CEO, BASF
Marcus W. Brauchli, Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Amb. Richard Burt, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Martin Bussmann, Mannheim LLC
Nikhil Deogun, Managing Editor, CNBC
David W. Detjen, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, Internationale Journalisten Programme, e.V. (IJP)
Prof. Dr. Ronald Frohne, President and CEO, GWFF USA, Inc.
Neil Henry, Professor and Dean, School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
James F. Hoge, Jr., Director, Human Rights Watch (Honorary Chairman)
Iain Holding, President, Beiersdorf North America
Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates
Frank E. Loy, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (Chairman)
Sen. Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator
Wolfgang Pordzik, Executive Vice President, Corporate Public Policy, DHL North America
John F. W. Rogers, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Garrick Utley, President, Levin Institute, SUNY
Stanford S. Warshawsky, Chairman, Bismarck Capital, LLC (Vice Chairman)
Legal Advisor: Phillip C. Zane, Attorney at Law, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
German Trustees (2010-2013)
Patron: The Honorable Philip D. Murphy
U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Erik Bettermann
Director-General, Deutsche Welle
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege
German Ambassador to Brussels
Dr. Martin Blessing
CEO, Commerzbank AG
Prof. 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
Leonhard F. Fischer
Partner, RHJI Swiss Management
Dr. Rüdiger Frohn
Chairman, Stiftung Mercator
Emilio Galli-Zugaro
Head Group Communications, Allianz Group
Dr. Tessen von Heydebreck
Former Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank AG (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Werner Hoyer
State Minister, Foreign Office, FDP
Dr. Luc Jochimsen
Member of Parliament, Die Linke
Hans-Werner Kilz
Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Dr. Torsten-Jörn Klein
Board member, Gruner + Jahr AG
Rob Meines
Meines & Partners, The Hague
Kerstin Müller
Former State Minister, Member of Parliament, Buendnis 90/Die Grünen
Rainer Neske
Board Member, Deutsche Bank (Chairman)
Dagmar Reim
Director General, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
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.
Steffen Seibert
Government Spokesman
Friede Springer
Publisher, Axel Springer AG
Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier
Former Foreign Minister, Chair of the SPD Parliamentary Group
Tobias Trevisan
CEO, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Lord George Weidenfeld
Former CEO, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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 2010 Arthur F. Burns program possible.
Sponsors in the U.S.
Alston & Bird, LLP
BASF
Beiersdorf, NA
Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Continental Airlines
DHL North America
The Ford Foundation
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The Ladenburg Foundation
Mars Incorporated
Tupperware Brands Corporation
Individual Contributions
John and Gina Despres
David Detjen
The Hon. Frank E. Loy
Stanford S. Warshawsky
Sponsors in Germany
Allianz SE
Auswärtiges Amt.
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
Deutsche Bank AG
European Recovery Program (ERP), Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Siemens AG
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