Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (born 1976) is a German-American
political scientist
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. She was the director and CEO of the
German Council on Foreign Relations from June 2021 to February 2022. Since August 2022 she has served as an Executive Vice President of the
Bertelsmann Stiftung
The Bertelsmann Stiftung is an independent Foundation (nonprofit), foundation under private law, based in Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn as the result of social, corporate and fiscal considerations. The foundati ...
.
Biography
Clüver Ashbrook grew up as the child of an American mother and a German-American father in
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
and
Wiesbaden
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. After graduating from , she studied at
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
, Rhode Island, USA and in
Strasbourg
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, France. This was followed by a master's degree at the
London School of Economics
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. From 2008 to 2010 she pursued a
Master of Public Administration
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at the
Harvard Kennedy School
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Harvard Kennedy School offers master's de ...
, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She has been working there as a researcher since 2011, among others as co-founder and executive director of the Future of Diplomacy project, at Harvard University’s
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States.
From 2 ...
. She has been the leader of a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations since 2018.
She has also worked as a television journalist for
CNN
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in Atlanta and London, at the strategy consultancy
Roland Berger
Roland Berger (born 22 November 1937) is a German entrepreneur, consultant and philanthropist.
Life
Roland Berger was born in Berlin in 1937 as Robert Altmann; his family name changed later, after his father, Georg L. Berger, married his moth ...
in France and China, and served on the Management Board of the Brussels-based think tank
European Policy Centre
The European Policy Centre (EPC) is a Brussels-based not-for-profit think tank on European Union affairs, founded in 1997.
Activities
Under the presidency of Brigid Laffan, the EPC's Chief Executive is Fabian Zuleeg, a German economist. ...
(EPC).
She married the American journalist
Tom Ashbrook
Thomas E. Ashbrook is an American journalist and radio broadcaster. He was formerly the host of the nationally syndicated, public radio call-in program '' On Point'', from which he was dismissed after an investigation concluded he had created a h ...
in 2017.
References
External links
Guest at "Hart aber fair"Entry on the Harvard Kennedy School homepage
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1976 births
Living people
Brown University alumni
German political scientists
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Harvard Kennedy School alumni