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

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 - A European View, 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 1987

Professional Experience

-since September 2006, Founder and CEO of ASPIDE Group, Berlin / Hongkong / Washington (www.ASPIDEpartners.com)

-in Feb. 2002 appointment as Honorary Professor of US-Foreign Policy and International Security at the University of Potsdam 

-since July 2001, Founder and CEO of EAG European Advisory Group, Berlin / Hongkong / Washington 

-1998-2001 Senior Advisor European and North American Markets to the CEO of BAE SYSTEMS plc: Portfolio: strategic marketing-planning, new business and political-industrial cooperation

-1992-1997 Senior Vice President and Division Head Marketing, Communications, and International Relations of Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover

-1995 appointment as Honorary Professor of US - Foreign Policy and International Politics at the University of Braunschweig

-1987-1992 Associate Director and member of the Board of Directors of the ASPEN-Institute Berlin and Guest Professorships at the Free University Berlin,  Humboldt University Berlin, and at the University of  Hannover

-1985-1987 Communications and Marketing Manager at IBM Germany, Stuttgart

-1975-1980 journalist/ moderator at WDR-TV I/III, Cologne

Memberships/ Honorary functions

-since November 2014 Member of InvestAfrica, London

-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 2010 Member of The Atlantic Council of the United States, Washington, D.C.

-since 2009 Member of the Study Group on Strategic Issues of the German Association for Foreign Policy, Berlin

-January 2005 - June 2012 Chairwoman of the FDP-Transatlantic Forum

-from February 2003 - December 2005 Chairwoman of the FDP-National-Committee on Foreign- and Security Policy

-from July 2002 - May 2011 foreign and security-policy advisor to the Chairman of the FDP

-Founder and President of the Foundation "Dialogue of Cultures", 2001 

-since 2000 Member of the Advisory Board of the Philharmony of Nations, Hamburg

-since 1996 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg

-since 1996 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Instituto de Empresa (IE), Madrid

-since 1995 Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London

-Member of the American Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt, 1993 - 1997

-Vice President of the German-Atlantic-Association, Berlin, 1991 – 2003

-since 1990 Member of the American Council on Germany, New York

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, Wall Street Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NATO`s NATIONS, Military Technology, Wehrtechnik