Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (born 1976) is a German-American political scientist. She was the director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations from June 2021 to February 2022.[1] Since August 2022 she has served as an Executive Vice President of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.[2]

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Education
OrganizationBertelsmann Stiftung
Spouse
(m. 2017)

Biography

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Clüver Ashbrook grew up as the child of an American mother and a German-American father in Berlin and Wiesbaden. After graduating from Gutenbergschule Wiesbaden [de], she studied at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA and in Strasbourg, France. This was followed by a master's degree at the London School of Economics. From 2008 to 2010 she pursued a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, 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.[3] She has been the leader of a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations since 2018.[4]

She has also worked as a television journalist for CNN in Atlanta and London, at the strategy consultancy Roland Berger in France and China, and served on the Management Board of the Brussels-based think tank European Policy Centre (EPC).[5]

She married the American journalist Tom Ashbrook in 2017.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook verlässt die DGAP | DGAP". dgap.org. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  2. ^ "About Us - Bertelsmann Stiftung expands leadership team". www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  3. ^ "Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  4. ^ "Gemeinsam stärker | DGAP". dgap.org. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  5. ^ "Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook". dgap.org (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  6. ^ "Cathryn Clüver, Tom Ashbrook". The New York Times. 2017-06-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
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