Board of Trustees
Well-known American and German individuals from the USable Board of Trustees form the supervisory committee of the Transatlantic Idea Competition. They confer on both the form and content of the competition and define the governing theme of each new call for submissions.

Dr. Lothar Dittmer
Executive Board member of the Körber Foundation

Daniel S. Hamilton, Ph.D.
Center for Transatlantic Relations
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.




William Richard Smyser, Ph.D.
BMW Center for German and European Studies
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.


Karsten D. Voigt
Former Coordinator of German-American Cooperation
Federal Foreign Office
Berlin, Germany






