Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos


Entrepreneur and
Honorary Professor of US-Foreign Policy and
International Security,
Department of History, University of Potsdam

Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos, Entrepreneur / Historian / Political Scientist, born in Bonn, studied History, Political Science and Law at the Universities of Bonn, Harvard, Stanford, and the Sorbonne. MA 1980. Ph.D. 1986.

Professional Background

  • since September 2006, Founder and CEO of ASPIDE in Berlin / Hongkong / Washington (www.ASPIDEpartners.com)
  • since July 2001, Co-Founder and CEO of EAG European Advisory Group in Berlin / Hongkong / Washington (www.EAGpartners.com)
  • 1998-2001 Senior Advisor European and North American Markets to the CEO of BAE SYSTEMS plc London/Berlin: Portfolio: strategic marketing-planning, new business and political-industrial cooperation
  • 2000-2001 Head of an International Commission reviewing the Greek Strategic Defense Requirements 2000-2015 by appointment of the Greek Minister of Defense
  • 1992-1997 Senior Vice President and Division Head Marketing, Communications, and International Relations of Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover
  • 1987-1989 Associate Director and member of the Board of Directors of the ASPEN-Institute Berlin
  • 1985-1987 Communications and Marketing Manager at IBM Germany, Stuttgart
  • 1975-1980 journalist/ moderator at WDR-TV I/III, Cologne

Academic Background

  • in Feb. 2002 appointment as Honorary Professor of US Foreign Policy and International Security at the University of Potsdam
  • 1995 appointment as Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig (Chair: US Foreign Policy and International Politics)
  • 1993-1995 Guest Professorships of US Foreign Policy and International Politics at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of Hannover
  • 1990-1992 DAAD-Guest-Professor of US Foreign Policy and International Politics at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 1988-1991 Guest-Lecturer of US Foreign Policy and International Politics at the Otto-Suhr-Institute and at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute of the Free University Berlin
  • Jan./Feb. 1990 German-Marshall-Fund-Fellow at the Institute for East-West-Security Studies in New York
  • June-Oct. 1989 Körber-Visiting-Scholar at the History Dept. of Stanford University; lectures at the History Dept. of Stanford University by invitation of Gordon A. Craig
  • 1980-1983 Special Student at the Government Dept. of Harvard University (with a Doctorate-fellowship of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation); Ph.D. student of Samuel P. Huntington and Richard E. Neustadt
  • Nov./ Dec. 1979 Studies at the Department de Science Politique of the Sorbonne
  • Studies of Political Science, Ancient History, Law, Psychology and Italian Philology at the Univ. of Bonn; MA 1980; Ph.D. 1986 (with Karl Dietrich Bracher)

Memberships/ Honorary functions

  • since 2011 Member of the Advisory Board of the "Jewish Voice from Germany"
  • since 2010 Member of the Advisory Board for "Global Issues" of the German Foreign Ministry
  • since January 2005 Chairwoman of the FDP-Transatlantic Forum
  • from February 2003-December 2005 Chairwoman of the FDP-National-Committee on Foreign- and Security Policy
  • since July 2002 foreign and security-policy advisor to the FDP
  • Vice President of the German-Atlantic-Association, Berlin, 1991-2003
  • member of the American Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt
  • member of the American Council on Germany, New York
  • member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
  • member of the Study Group on Strategic Issues of the German Association for Foreign Policy, Berlin
  • member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg
  • member of the International Advisory Board of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid
  • member of the Advisory Board of the Philharmony of Nations, Hamburg
  • Founder and President of the Foundation "Dialogue of Cultures"
  • member of the Board of Trustees of Quadriga

Publications

Articles on US Foreign Policy, the European-American and German-American relations after 1945, transatlantic-security-policy, defense and military issues, the CSCE/OSCE- Process, or the American Presidency have appeared a.o. in Außenpolitik, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Washington Quarterly, Europäische Rundschau, International Herald Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, Cicero, Wall Street Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NATO's NATIONS

Book-Publications

  • The Closed Society and Its Friends, Hamburg 1997
  • On the Fragility of Democracy, Munich 1995
  • Rendezvous with GDR - Political Myths and their Demythologyzation, Düsseldorf 1994
  • The End of the Bonn Republic, Stuttgart 1993
  • The New Europe - A European-American Dialogue (Ed.), Bonn/Berlin 1992
  • History and Progress, In Search of the European and American Mind, New York 1989 (Foreword by Gordon A. Craig); German edition Paderborn / Munich / Zurich 1987 (Foreword by Karl Dietrich Bracher)