AP People

Herr Karsten Voigt

Coordinator for German-American CooperationFederal Foreign Office, Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Postal Address: 11013 Berlin, Germany

Tel.: 0049-1888-17-2870

Fax: 0049-1888-175-2870

E-mail: ko-usa-vz@auswaertiges-amt.de

 

Career

1969-1976

Member of the Board of Directors and Deputy Director of Frankfurt Community College

since 1 February 1999

Coordinator for German-American Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office

Politics

1969-1972

Chair of the German Young Socialists Organisation

1976-1998

Member of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag)

1976-1998

Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag

1976-1998

Deputy member of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag

1983-1998

Foreign-policy spokesman of the parliamentary group of the SPD

1984-1995

Member of the executive Committee of the SPD – Chair of the Commission on International Relations

1992-1998

Chairman of the German-Russian Parliamentarians’ Group

1984-1995

Member of the national executive Board of the SPD

Since 2000

Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Berlin Allied Museum

International involvement

1977-1998

Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO

1989-1993

Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO

1992-1994

Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO

1994-1996

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO

1985-1994

Member of the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Parties of the European Union (SPE)

Studies

1960-1969

Studied history, German and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Hamburg, Copenhagen and Frankfurt

Memberships

  • Member of the Board of the German Society for Foreign Affairs, Berlin
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Atlantik-Brücke
  • Member of the Executive Board of the Aspen-Institute Berlin
  • Director of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alliierten Museum Berlin
  • Member of the Board of the German-Russian Forum
  • Member of the RAND Europe Advisory Board
  • Honorary Board Member of the Magazine of the Federation of German-American Clubs (“Gazette”)