| 1 | Name: | Dr. Karl Kaiser | |
| Institution: | Harvard University; University of Bonn | ||
| Year Elected: | 2007 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1934 | ||
Karl Kaiser is Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as well as a Senior Scholar of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He was born in Germany in 1934 and studied economics and political science at Cologne University (Degree of Diplom-Kaufmann, 1954-58). He conducted graduate studies at the University of Grenoble (D.E.S. de Science Politique, 1958-59) and Oxford University (Nuffield College, 1961-63), simultaneously receiving a Ph.D. from Cologne University (Dr.rer.pol.). He subsequently worked at Harvard University, first for Henry Kissinger, then as Research Associate at the Center for International Affairs, Head Tutor in Social Studies and Lecturer in Government (1963-68). He has also served at Harvard several times as a visiting professor. Later, he held professorships at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna (Italy), the Hebrew University and the Universities of Saarbrucken, Cologne, Florence and Bonn. From 1973-2003 he was Otto-Wolff-Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin. Dr. Kaiser has also served as a member of the Federal Commission for the Reform of the Federal Armed Services, the Council of Environmental Advisors of Germany and on several commissions of enquiry of the German Parliament, testimonials in the German and Dutch Parliaments, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Subcommittee on European Affairs of the U.S. Congress. He has also been an occasional political advisor to German Chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt and to Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Karl Kaiser is the author and/or editor of several hundred articles and fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and U.S. foreign policy, East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, international economics and international environmental policy. His latest edited volume is entitled Asia and Europe: The Necessity for Cooperation (2004). Among his latest articles is "Indispensable NATO" in: Internationale Politik, Global Edition (summer 2008). Dr. Kaiser has been named an Honorary Doctor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Commander of the British Empire (UK) and Officier de la Légion d'Honneur(F), Order of Merit 1st Class (D), Order of Merit 1st Class (Pl). His many awards include the Prix Bentinck and the Atlantic Award of NATO. | |||