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The Academy’s faculty is composed of an interdisciplinary mix of professors, cultural diplomats and experienced professionals from the public and private sectors. The Faculty team includes: University professors, diplomats, politicians, business executives, civil society leaders, media representatives, mediators/conflict management experts and other high-profile individuals from reputed institutions.
Mark C. Donfried
Director and Founder of the institute for Cultural Diplomacy
 After completing his undergraduate studies in European History and French at Columbia University, Mark Donfried then pursued graduate research at the Institut des Études Politiques where he wrote his thesis on "la diplomatie du jazz." Following this, Mark worked as an Analyst at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department of Credit Suisse First Boston, and then at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik. In 2001 Mark founded the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD): an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in New York City. The ICD has since opened a European Headquarters in Berlin, where Mark is presently based. Mark is currently a Visiting Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin teaching, for example, a seminar for undergraduates on “Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy.” He is focusing his current research and publishing in the field of civil society based cultural diplomacy.
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President Dr. Emil Constantinescu
Former President of Romania
 Born November 19th 1939 in Tighina, now in the Republic of Moldova, Emil Constantinescu has had an illustrious career in both academia and politics. Graduating from the University of Bucharest with a degree in law, he became a local judge; however he was forced to leave his post due to the antagonistic political climate. Following his time as a judge, he returned to the University of Bucharest where he undertook a doctorate in geology. Constantinescu became a highly-esteemed academic whilst at the university and made a large contribution to the field of geology. This included new discoveries in the field as well as publishing a number of important journal articles and books. He has lectured widely at some of the most important universities in the world and has received various global awards for his contributions to the field. In 1990, Constantinescu was elected as Vice-President of the University of Bucharest and became its President from1992 until 1996. (more)
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Prof. Dr. Vasile Puscas
Former Romanian Minister for European Affairs
 Dr. Vasile Puscas, politician, diplomat and renowned International Relations scholar is highly thought of in the Romanian as well as European arena. In 2001, he became a member of the Social Democratic Party and was deputy in the 2000-2004 and 2004-2008 legislative terms, during which he was made the Chief Negotiator with the EU and Minister Delegate with the Ministry of European Integration. The former Chief Negotiator with the European Union (EU) succeeded Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea and in December 2008 became the Romanian Minister for European Affairs. (more)
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Prof. Dr. Miomir Zuzul
Former Foreign Minister of Croatia, President of Dubrovnik International University
 Dr. Zuzul has a long career in the Croatian diplomatic service behind him, rising to the post of Ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2004 and 2006, where he worked on bringing Croatia closed to EU accession.
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Dr. Solomon Passy
Former Foreign Minister of Bulgaria
 Solomon Isaac Passy is a Bulgarian politician, former Foreign Minister of Bulgaria from July 2001 until August 2005, and the Chairman-in-Offce of the OSCE in 2004. Solomon Passy was born in Plovdiv. He is a mathematician and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic and Computer Science from Sofa University. He was involved in the dissident movement under totalitarianism. In 1990, Passy was the founding President and CEO of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, a non-governmental organization to lobby for NATO membership, and the founder and spokesman of the Green Party of Bulgaria. He is currently Special Adviser to the Macedonian Government on NATO accession.
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Amb. András Simonyi
Former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States
 Dr. András. Simonyi Hungarian Ambassador to the United States from 2002-2007. Prior to his time in Washington, Dr. Simonyi was Deputy Chief of Mission at the Mission of Hungary to the European Communities and NATO in Brussels 1992-1995 and a key member in the negotiation process for the NATO accession. Dr. Simonyi is a passionate Rock 'n' Roll fan and formed the band ‘Coalition of the Willing’ when he was the Ambassador to Washington and gave several performances for charities across the US.
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Prof. Dr. Karl P. Donfried
Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emeritus of Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College
 Dr. Donfried was educated at Columbia College, Harvard Divinity School, and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, before taking his Doctor of Theology from the University of Heidelberg. He was first appointed to the faculty of Smith College in 1968 and served as the Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor of Religion and Biblical Literature until 2005. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität in Berlin, at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Yale University Divinity School, and The Theological faculty of the University of Hamburg, as well as teaching at Brown University, Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Assumption Colleges. Professor Donfried is an internationally recognized New Testament scholar, and has written widely for journals and books. His current research projects continue to center around 1 Thessalonians as well as Paul chronology and theology. Canon Donfried has been deeply involved in various aspects of the ecumenical movement, both in its pastoral and scholarly dimensions. In 1977, Canon Donfried was elected by the Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts to serve as Ecumenical Canon of the Cathedral in 1977, a position that Canon Donfried continues to hold.
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PD Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Professor, Center or North American Studies, University of Frankfurt - more
 Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht was a Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American History, both at Harvard University. She has previously taught at the universities of Virginia, Bielefeld, Halle-Wittenberg, Harvard, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her special field of interest is the interplay of culture and international relations since the 18th century. Her first book, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999), was coawarded the Stuart Bernath Prize and the Myrna Bernath Prize, both given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Her second book, Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920 will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009.
Ambassador Prof. Cynthia P. Schneider
Distinguished Professor in Practice of Diplomacy Department, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
 After completing her Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1984, Dr Schneider joined the Georgetown University faculty, where she has taught since, both in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Foreign Service. Her courses and studies focus on Renaissance and Baroque art and on culture and diplomacy, on which she has published widely. Professor Schneider has also developed the plans for a “Center for Life Sciences and Society” at the University, which will address for the public and the Congress the challenges of the integration of the life sciences into daily life. Dr Schneider is a non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a member of the Supervisory Board of the international food conglomerate Royal Ahold, a member of the Board of Directors of Humanity in Action, and a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. She is currently working on a book on culture and diplomacy, with the working title, Telling America’s Story and Listening to Theirs. Dr. Schneider served as the 61st Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of the Netherlands from August 1998 to June 2001.
Dr. Ulrich Brückner
Jean Monnet Professor for European Studies, Stanford University in Berlin
 Ulrich Brückner studied Political Science, German Literature and History at the University of Würzburg and the Freie Universität Berlin (FU). Since 1987 he has specialized on European integration, working at the FU as lecturer and later as the Jean Monnet chair, an EU program for teaching activities in the field of European Integration. His Ph.D. is on the role of the European Commission in the policy-making of the EU. From 1997 until 2003 he also worked as a Jean Monnet visiting professor at Szczecin University in Poland. Since 1999 Uli taught as Visiting Professor at Stanford University in Berlin and California, ECNU and Fudan University Shanghai, MGIMO Moscow, Sabanci University in Istanbul, the University for Economics in Bratislava and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. In 2003 he became EU Jean Monnet Professor at Stanford and works in California in spring and in the Berlin program in fall / winter. His current fields of interests are institutional developments in the EU, external affairs and Eastward enlargement of the EU. |
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