George A. Glass© George Glass
George A. Glass
George Glass is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. From 2007-2009 he served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of Norad-USNorthcom in Colorado Springs. Prior to that, Mr. Glass was Chargé for a year and later Deputy Permanent Representative at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna.
From 2001 to 2004 George Glass was Director of the Office of Terrorist Finance and Sanctions in the Department of State. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland and U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany (1997-2000). Before this, Mr. Glass was a Deputy Director for NATO affairs in the Department of State. Mr. Glass has also served at other times in Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin and Washington.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Glass was a researcher at the Atlantic Institute in Paris, and lecturer at the Hamburg Institute for International Politics and Economics, Haus Rissen.
George Glass received a MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA from Tufts University. He also studied at the Berlin Free University and University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Peter Rudolf© Peter Rudolf
Dr. Peter Rudolf
Dr. Peter Rudolf, born in 1958, is Senior Fellow and head of the Americas Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, which he joined in 1988. After studying political science and Catholic theology at the University of Mainz, he received his doctorate degree in political science from the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1989. Dr. Rudolf worked as an APSA (American Political Science Association) Congressional Fellow in Washington, DC and held research posts at Frankfurt Peace Research Institute and the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
He also taught at the University of Augsburg, where he earned his „Habilitation“ in Political Science in 2000, and at the Free University Berlin. From 2003 to 2006 he was one of the chairpersons of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association. Dr. Rudolf has published widely on U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic relations, German foreign policy, arms control and other international security issues. His most recent books are Imperiale Illusionen: Amerikanische Außenpolitik unter George W. Bush (2007) and Das „neue“ Amerika: Außenpolitik unter Barack Obama (2010).
Olivia Schoeller© Olivia Schoeller
Olivia Schoeller
Olivia Schoeller was the Washington correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung, the largest broadsheet newspaper in the German capital, from 2003 through 2009. Born in Munich, she studied Political Science at Bard College in upstate New York and later received her training as a journalist at Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, where she subsequently worked as a news editor and political correspondent. In 1998, she joined Berliner Zeitung for a five-year stint at the foreign policy desk covering the United States, Great Britain, and Spain. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Olivia Schoeller travelled to New York to report about the weeks following the attacks. In 2002, she accompanied the German troops to Kabul to write about the Bundeswehr’s first out-of-area mission in Afghanistan. One year later, she became the Berliner Zeitung’s overseas correspondent in Washington, DC. For six years, Olivia Schoeller wrote about the country and its wars, covering two Presidential elections and several Congressional elections. After Barack Obama’s inauguration, she returned to Berlin, where she is currently a page three editor for Berliner Zeitung.
Andreas Zumach© Andreas Zumach
Andreas Zumach
Andreas Zumach is a Geneva-based UN correspondent for the German newspaper “die tageszeitung” (taz) and other newspapers, radio and TV stations in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain, and the United States. He is known as an expert on security policy, arms control, international law, and transatlantic relations. “Aside from his fatal war policy in Afghanistan, which a different US president may have pursued with even more determination,” Andreas Zumach recently wrote in an open-ed for the taz on Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win, “President Obama continues to be the best that could have happened to the US and the world. This is true when compared to the other candidates that were up for election in 2008, and it is true with regard to the enormous challenges facing the US and the world today.” His most recent publication is “Die kommenden Kriege – Ressourcen, Menschenrechte, Machtgewinn – Präventivkrieg als Dauerzustand?” (2005).
Wayne Martin© Wayne Martin
Music: Wayne Martin und Band
Singer Wayne Martin was born in New Orleans and grew up in San Francisco. After musical engagements in all continents, he finally settled in Europe. After a prolonged stint in Sweden, where Wayne worked as a gospel singer, he became a permanent resident of Berlin some ten years ago and landed a recording contract with Universal Records. A diverse array of records has been released since then. Wayne feels equally at home in TV/radio shows and at international festivals, hotel bars, and jazz clubs. His current show includes Jazz and Rhythm & Blues numbers from New Orleans, Soul classics from the Sixties and Seventies, Blues standards as well as self-penned songs from his current CD “Home Town Boy”.
Carsten Bösel, © Carsten Bösel
Presentation: Carsten Bösel
Carsten Bösel is the Vice President of the Association of Friends of Amerika Haus Berlin. After completing his M.A. studies in American Studies, Political Science, and Communications in Berlin and Durham, NC, he started working as a study advisor at Amerika Haus Berlin, a former US public diplomacy venue. Today, he is freelancing as an independent educational consultant, writer, and translator, counseling German high school and university students on opportunities for study in North America. As a German-English translator, he primarily works for foundations, research institutes and university departments with a focus on education. His most important publications include two extensive guidebooks on studying in the United States and Canada, both published by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), as well as “School Choice and Equal Educational Opportunity”, an in-depth analysis of the US school choice controversy over public school vouchers for low income African American kids in the nation’s troubled inner cities.
