In 1998, Mr. Koenig transferred to Washington, DC, where he served as the head of the federal policy team. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a Root-Tilden Scholar at New York University School of Law, he was in the first class of German Chancellor Scholars selected by the Humboldt Foundation in 1990. He is the immediate past president of the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Law Center and a member of the boards of several other non-profit organizations, including Global Rights and Appleseed. He also has served as a member of the Asia Society’s Washington Advisory Committee and the Dean’s Strategic Council at the New York University Law School.

Albrecht earned graduate degrees in History and English and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Göttingen. From 1981-1993 she was a graduate assistant and assistant professor at the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen. She was the director of the public relations office (1993-1996) and in 1997 became the executive director of the “Conference of the German Academies of Science and Humanities” (Mainz). From 1997-2001, Albrecht was the head of the Department for Strategic Planning and Research at the University of Heidelberg. Since July 2001, she has been the head of the Department for Strategic Planning and External Relations at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  As such, she is also in charge of public relations, cooperation with national and international funding agencies and research organizations. Albrecht is the vice chair of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Heidelberg.

In 2001 she was awarded the Wolfgang Paul Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, which allowed her to  set up a corpuslinguistics research project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, where she is a permanent fellow. She received the Antonio Zampolli Prize of the European Lexical Resource Association in 2006. Dr. Fellbaum has directed numerous national and international research projects with support from the US National Science Foundation and the European Commission. Her work on the analysis and computational modeling of the lexical and conceptual inventory of diverse languages has taken her to many countries for lecturing and collaboration, including South Africa, Japan, Taiwan and Brazil. She is a co-founder and co-president of the Global WordNet Association and has served on numerous advisory committees and editorial boards.

She was awarded the Distinguished Fulbright-Dow Research Chair at the Roosevelt Center in the Netherlands in 2009. Professor Mattox served on the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State (1994-1995), as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow at the State Department Office of Strategic and Theater Nuclear Policy and as an international affairs analyst with the Congressional Research Service. She has been a Bosch Fellow in Germany, NATO Research Fellow, Fulbright Scholar at DGAP in Bonn, Germany, president (1996-2003) of Women in International Security at Georgetown University, and vice president of the International Studies Association. She was president of the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association (1985-1987) and is the incoming president of the International Security and Arms Control Section at the American Political Science Association. She is widely published on German and European as well as nonproliferation issues.

Norton previously taught at Mount Holyoke College and Vassar College and has held guest appointments at the University of Chicago and Heidelberg University. Specializing in 18th-20th Century German Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics and Ethics, and German Intellectual History, Norton has published three books Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle (Cornell, 2002); The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century (Cornell, 1995); Herder’s Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment (Cornell, 1991).  He has also translated books: Ernst Bertram, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology (Illinois, 2009); Ulrich Ricken, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment; (Routledge, 1994).

Norton’s selected honors include the Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History, the Ungar German Translation Award, and Fellowships from the Guggenheim and Humboldt Foundations.  Norton is also currently the Editor of The German Quarterly

As Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, Norton oversees all academic programs managed by Notre Dame International.  He is also responsible for engaging and supporting Notre Dame faculty conducting research or educational activities overseas.

Dr. Amian assumed her current position in 2008, having joined the Humboldt Foundation a year earlier as program director for strategic planning in the Department for Strategic Planning and External Relations. Prior to 2007, she worked as assistant professor in the Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn. Dr. Amian holds a graduate degree in North American Studies and a Ph.D. in American Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Bonn. She is a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and has received several visiting fellowships to study and research in the United States, at the University of Notre Dame, Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1994 to 2011, he served as Executive Officer of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council where he helped to oversee the studies that provide independent, objective advice on public policy issues.  He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971, and prior to 1994 worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and the University of Tennessee. While at Harvard, he also served as Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Humanism of the Aspen Institute. In 1976-77, he was an AAAS Congressional Science Fellow. He is past chair of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society (APS) and a Fellow of the AAAS and APS.

Prior to that, as a biochemist-molecular biologist, Dr. A. Stephen Dahms was professor of chemistry at San Diego State University (1972-2006), founding director of the SDSU Molecular Biology Institute (1974-1992), director of the SDSU Biotechnology Research Program (1992-96), director of the SDSU Center for Bio/Pharmaceutical and Biodevice Development (1996-2006) and executive director of CSUPERB, the biotechnology research and education program in the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, the nation’s largest university system, from 1987-2006. He serves on the boards of directors for a number of biotechnology trade groups and organizations, research foundations, and other organizations representing over fifty percent of the US biotechnology and medical device industries. He is chair of the Board of Directors of the US Council of Biotechnology Centers and a member of national and international committees and commissions addressing the facilitation of interdisciplinary research and interfaces within the academic-biological, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Dahms is widely published and, between 2001 and 2004, coordinated a dozen symposia. In Febrary 2009 he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Milan-based Fondazione Cariplo’s venture capital arm, TT-Ventures, designed to invest in Italian university technologies and to accelerate their movement to the commercial cycle.  He speaks frequently on the topic of venture philanthropy and its engagement in moving university technologies to commercialization and to the benefit of society. He received a Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1979.

Professor Fallon also held earlier appointments as dean and professor at Texas A&M University, University of Colorado at Denver, and Binghamton University. In 1973-74 he served as visiting professor of psychology at the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf with support from a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship and in 2011 as visiting distinguished professor of public policy at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He has published widely on learning and motivation, on academic public policy, and on comparative higher education. He is the author of a prize-winning book, The German University: A Heroic Ideal in Conflict with the Modern World (1980). Professor Fallon has served the German government as adviser to its excellence initiative for higher education, is a former member of the Stiftungsrat of the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim and serves currently as a member of the Hochschulrat of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

He accepted an appointment as professor of Chemistry and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University. In 2006 Francisco was appointed as the William E. Moore distinguished professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science and Chemistry at Purdue University. Francisco has received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award. He was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, which he spent at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award, as well as being appointed a senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a Professeur Invite at the Universite de Paris-Est, France. He is a co-author of the textbook Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics, published by Prentice-Hall. He was president of the American Chemical Society for 2010.

He has more than 310 publications and he is editor of three books of which the latest is Frontiers of Molecular Spectroscopy (2008). He has received numerous awards including the E. R. Lippincott Award in molecular spectroscopy in 2005. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and to the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He is editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure. He has served on the board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America since 2003 and was president of the AvHAA for 2007-2008. Dr. Laane has his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois with Highest Distinction, his Ph.D. from M.I.T., and an honorary doctorate from Tartu University in Estonia. His Humboldt Award (USS) in 1979-1980 was spent at the Universität Bayreuth. He has served as faculty senate speaker and associate dean of science at Texas A&M and on the Board of Directors and as treasurer of the Coblentz Society.

He helped co-launch the first formal climate and energy partnership between the 40 largest US and European metropolitan regional councils, co-initiate the Transatlantic Climate Bridge, co-launch the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s “Cities and Climate” Network and co-develop the Transatlantic Urban Climate Dialogue with the Freie Universitaet of Berlin. Prior to working for NVRC, Medearis spent approximately 20 years at the Office of International Affairs, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, as the program manager for western Europe and urban environmental programs. In that capacity, he worked to identify, analyze and apply “green” building, brownfields, smart growth, energy, climate and related urban environmental policies from OECD member countries to the United States. As program manager for Western Europe, he coordinated EPA’s science and technology agreements with the EU and Western Europe. Medearis also served as the program manager for the US National Park Service’s Potomac American Heritage River Initiative. He has been the vice-chair of the OECD Territorial Development Committee and chairman of the OECD Working Group on Urban Affairs. In addition to serving as a board member of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Medearis also serves on the board of advisors for the American Friends of Georgia. Medearis has been awarded fellowships to study urban and environmental planning in Europe from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the European Union, and the American Council on Germany. Medearis has taught courses on environmental policy and planning courses as an adjunct faculty at the University of Redlands, Virginia Tech University and the Johns Hopkins University. Medearis has a Ph.D. in environmental design and planning from Virginia Tech University, an M.S. in Cartographic and Geographic Science from George Mason University, an M.G.A. in Government from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Redlands.

At Cornell, he was Director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1988 to 1998 and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Engineering from 1980 to 1985. Meyburg was the Director of the Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium, a consortium of ten universities and two research labs, from 1996 until 2010.

A consultant to various US and foreign governmental and private agencies, Meyburg held visiting professorships in the United States, Germany, and Brazil. Major awards include a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (1978-1979 at the Technical University Munich), Humboldt Research Award (1985-1986 at the Technical University Braunschweig); a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award for Brazil (1984); Professor of the Year, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell (1984, 1994, and 1997); Daniel M. Lazar ’29 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering (1999 and 2002).

His major research interests are travel demand modeling, travel survey methodologies, freight transportation, urban and regional transportation planning, transportation-communications trade-offs, transportation and the environment. Meyburg co-authored four textbooks and co-edited several others. He has served on the board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America and was its vice-president for the years 2007-2008. Currently, he is on the Board of the American Friends and serves as co-chair of its Alumni Council.

As a scholar, Dr. Peck explored the complex and ambiguous relationship between German and Jewish culture. An educator with wide-ranging academic and administrative experience, Peck has taught at several universities in both the United States and Canada and has held the Walter Benjamin Chair in German-Jewish Culture and History at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he was also the Director of the Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies. Dr. Peck also taught at the Free University of Berlin and was a Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), The Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC. As of October 2015 he will be a member of the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) for the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht in Berlin.

Peck holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley (1979); a Master’s degree, also in comparative literature, from the University of Chicago (1974); and a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University (1972) in German, English and History. He is the author of numerous articles on German and Jewish studies and has also written extensively on transnational and global cultural issues. He is particularly interested in the global transfer of knowledge and the internationalization of the university. His books include Being Jewish in the New Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2006) and (with John Borneman) Sojourners. The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity (Nebraska, 1985).

Subsequently, Matthias Vorwerk received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to continue his research at Trinity College and University College Dublin, Ireland. In 2005, he was awarded membership in the Academia Platonica Septima. Since he arrived in the United States in 2003, Professor Vorwerk has served on the Calder Fellowship Selection Committee.

Before joining AICGS, Fisher served for ten years as a senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where she focused on nuclear arms control, export controls, and transatlantic security issues. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Bonn (1981-82), and has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the Free University of Berlin, and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She chairs the Advisory Council of the German Center for Research and Innovation and served on the American Chemical Society’s International Center Task Force. Fisher has taught at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, in the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. She holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Mason University’s School of Public Administration. She has written numerous articles and monographs and has spoken in the United States and Asia on German-American and transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy, and the role of nongovernmental organizations in nuclear nonproliferation and arms control.

He has more than 310 publications and he is editor of three books of which the latest is Frontiers of Molecular Spectroscopy (2008). He has received numerous awards including the E. R. Lippincott Award in molecular spectroscopy in 2005. He has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He is an editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure. He served on the board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America since 2003 and was president from 2007 to 2008.

Laane earned his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois with Highest Distinction, his Ph.D. from M.I.T., and an honorary doctorate from Tartu University in Estonia. His Humboldt Award (USS) year, from 1979-1980, was spent at the Universitaet Bayreuth. He has served as faculty senate speaker and associate dean of Science at Texas A&M and on the board of directors and as treasurer of the Coblentz Society. Currently, he is on the Board of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and serves as co-chair of its Alumni Council.

At Cornell, he was director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1988 to 1998 and chairman of the Department of Environmental Engineering from 1980 to 1985. Meyburg was the director of the Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium, a consortium of ten universities and two research labs, from 1996 until 2010.

A consultant to various US and foreign governmental and private agencies, Meyburg held visiting professorships in the US, Germany, and Brazil. Major awards include a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (1978/79 at the Technical University Munich), a Humboldt Research Award (1985/86 at the Technical University Braunschweig); a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award for Brazil, 1984; Professor of the Year, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell (1984, 1994, 1997); Daniel M. Lazar ’29 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering (1999 and 2002).

His major research interests are travel demand modeling, travel survey methodologies, freight transportation, urban and regional transportation planning, transportation-communications trade-offs, transportation and the environment. Meyburg co-authored four textbooks and co-edited several others. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America and was its vice-president for the years 2007-2008. Currently, he is on the Board of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and serves as co-chair of its Alumni Council.

Davidson-Schmich was awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship in 1996-1997 for research on budget politics in Berlin, during which time she was affiliated with the Humboldt University. In 2006 and 2008 she received funding for a follow up visit to Germany, this time at the University of Bremen where she was affiliated with the Zentrum Gender Studies. She also hosted a Kolleg on the subject of German Chancellor Angela Merkel that resulted in a 2011 special issue of the journal German Politics. In recent years she and Dr. David Abraham have served as co-Humboldtians on Campus at the University of Miami. As HOC, in December 2014, Davidson-Schmich hosted fellow Humboldtian Dr. Kathrin Zippel speaking on the topic “Climbing Glass Fences: Women in Global Science.”

Davidson-Schmich serves on the editorial boards of German Politics, German Politics and Society, and Women, Politics, and Policy. She is also a member of the Executive Board of the International Association for the Study of German Politics and a former Board member of the German Studies Association.

Recently he has also developed new advances in thermoelectric materials with the concept of transverse thermoelectrics made of semiconductor superlattices which will lead to new nanothermoelectric devices. Matthew completed his Ph.D. studies at Princeton University with Prof. Daniel Tsui studying tunnel spectroscopy of fractional quantum Hall effect edges. His post-doc work at the University of Maryland investigated the infrared Hall angle of cuprate superconducting films. He then won a Humboldt Fellowship to research in Germany at the Walter Schottky Institut of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, where he remained for 7 years on research staff in a Habilitand position leading a small research group.

Professor Kelley has received awards from NIH, the NSF, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as well. His lab at San Diego State University combines phylogenetic methods and culture-independent molecular tools to study environmental microbiology. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Clorox Corporation and has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, CBC (Canada), Time Magazine, and Der Spiegel among numerous others. Professor Kelley is an active member in his community and at San Diego State University. He is a representative of American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on their campus as a ‘Humboldtian-on-Campus’.

He helped co-launch the first formal climate and energy partnership between the 40 largest US and European metropolitan regional councils, co-initiate the Transatlantic Climate Bridge, co-launch the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s “Cities and Climate” Network and co-develop the Transatlantic Urban Climate Dialogue with the Freie Universitaet of Berlin. Prior to working for NVRC, Medearis spent approximately 20 years at the Office of International Affairs, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, as the program manager for western Europe and urban environmental programs. In that capacity, he worked to identify, analyze and apply “green” building, brownfields, smart growth, energy, climate and related urban environmental policies from OECD member countries to the United States. As program manager for Western Europe, he coordinated EPA’s science and technology agreements with the EU and Western Europe. Medearis also served as the program manager for the US National Park Service’s Potomac American Heritage River Initiative. He has been the vice-chair of the OECD Territorial Development Committee and chairman of the OECD Working Group on Urban Affairs. In addition to serving as a board member of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Medearis also serves on the board of advisors for the American Friends of Georgia. Medearis has been awarded fellowships to study urban and environmental planning in Europe from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the European Union, and the American Council on Germany. Medearis has taught courses on environmental policy and planning courses as an adjunct faculty at the University of Redlands, Virginia Tech University and the Johns Hopkins University. Medearis has a Ph.D. in environmental design and planning from Virginia Tech University, an M.S. in Cartographic and Geographic Science from George Mason University, an M.G.A. in Government from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Redlands.

Norton previously taught at Mount Holyoke College and Vassar College and has held guest appointments at the University of Chicago and Heidelberg University. Specializing in 18th-20th Century German Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics and Ethics, and German Intellectual History, Norton has published three books Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle (Cornell, 2002); The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century (Cornell, 1995); Herder’s Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment (Cornell, 1991).  He has also translated books: Ernst Bertram, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology (Illinois, 2009); Ulrich Ricken, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment; (Routledge, 1994).

Norton’s selected honors include the Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History, the Ungar German Translation Award, and Fellowships from the Guggenheim and Humboldt Foundations.  Norton is also currently the Editor of The German Quarterly

As Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, Norton oversees all academic programs managed by Notre Dame International.  He is also responsible for engaging and supporting Notre Dame faculty conducting research or educational activities overseas

He has published on questions of citizenship, sexuality, post-Cold War “freedom,” Holocaust memorialization, African-American military occupation, the production of noncitizens, and the Obama moment in Berlin. His book, Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany was published by Indiana University Press in 2012.

Partridge has also been engaged in the making of three significant films: The Making of Death Pilots (MSNBC, 2002 – Associate Producer), Neo Nazi Zone (2001 – Writer and Director), and Beyond Belief: The Perplexing Case of Ziad Samir Jarrah (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001 – Associate Producer).

He was awarded the German Chancellor Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1999, and also received Fulbright Fellowships in 2006 to participate in a seminar on Muslim Minorities in France and Germany in Tuebingen, Germany, Strasbourg, France and Berlin. In 1995-1996, Partridge also received a Fulbright Fellowship in Political Science at the Technische Universitaet – Berlin, among numerous other fellowships and awards. Partridge is an active member of many professional associations and networks, including but not limited to the Young Scholars Network funded by the German Research Foundation, the American Anthropological Association, the Berlin-Wien-Tuebingen,-Chapel Hill Research Network, the American Ethnological Society, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Proctor held a one year internship at the University of Wisconsin Madison before serving in the Army from 1971-1974. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University (1974-1986) and was a post-doctoral fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1976-1978).

While in Shanghai, her research focused on national and institutional policies that impact the career prospects of postdoctoral researchers. Previously, she studied science/technology and higher education policies as a German Chancellor Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Dr. Stith has held program management positions at non-profit organizations in the Washington, DC area, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. In 2002-2003 she was an AAAS/NSF Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Stith received her doctorate in Biophysics from the University of Virginia; and, she received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Delaware in 1995.

Weidner joined the Biology Department at SFSU in 2009, returning to academia after directing research programs in cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito.  Prior to her arrival in California, she was professor of psychology (1984-2001) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Weidner’s research examines the role of stress, environment and gender in the etiology and progression of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus and cancer.  She collaborates with investigators from a wide range of disciplines (e.g., psychology, biology, medicine, public health and epidemiology).  Weidner strongly promotes mentoring and training of students and post-doctoral research scholars interested in lifestyle and psychosocial/behavioral influences on chronic diseases.

Her research in the United States has been funded by NIH, NATO and the American Heart Association. With support from the Humboldt Research Prize, NATO, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Eurotransplant Inc., and the German Research Foundation (DFG), she has also been teaching and conducting research in Germany (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, 1993-2013; Ruprecht Karls-University, Heidelberg, 2013-2016).

She has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Bonn (1981-82), and has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the Free University of Berlin, and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She chairs the Advisory Council of the German Center for Research and Innovation and served on the American Chemical Society’s International Center Task Force. Fisher has taught at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, in the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. She holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Mason University’s School of Public Administration. She has written numerous articles and monographs and has spoken in the United States and Asia on German-American and transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy, and the role of nongovernmental organizations in nuclear nonproliferation and arms control.

She has been involved since 2002 as an application reviewer and interviewer for the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program at the Japanese Embassy. Ilonka has an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown and a BA in German and Modern European Studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She spent a year at the Universität Augsburg and has strong reading knowledge and conversational skills in German and Japanese as well as fluent Hungarian and basic French.

Charlotte has interned for her Iowa Congressman as well as for several non-profits including E3 Kids International and the ONE Campaign. She holds degrees in International Affairs and German from the University of Mary Washington where she led both the German and competitive swimming clubs and worked as a Resident Assistant and Counselor.

Tyler attended Elizabethtown College where he received a degree in International Business with a concentration in Economics and a second major in German.  Tyler has interned and worked at various organizations in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Germany.  His interest in all things German stems from his growing up in Amish-influenced Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.