Dr. Josef Ackermann

Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main

Ambassador Ivo H. Daalder

United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels

William M. Drozdiak

President, American Council on Germany, New York

Dr. Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg

Minister of Economics and Technology of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin

Dr. Roland Gerschermann

Managing Director, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main

Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger

Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head Government Relations and Public Policy, Allianz SE, Munich

Dr. Jackson Janes

Executive Director, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C.

John M. Koenig

Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, Embassy of the United States of America to the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin

Ambassador John C. Kornblum

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany; Senior Counselor, Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz, Berlin

Isabelle Körner

Economic Journalist, n-tv, Cologne

Dr. Nader Maleki

Chairman and CEO, Maleki Group, Frankfurt am Main

Ambassador Bernd Mützelburg

German Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Volker Perthes

Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Chairman of the Board of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin

Dr. Katrin Pickenhan

Member of the Group Management, Maleki Group, Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter

Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Gary Smith

Executive Director, American Academy in Berlin

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Member of the German Council of Economic Experts, Wiesbaden; Chair of International Macroeconomics, Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz