Andrea Adam Moore is Executive Director of the German University Alliance, the joint North American Liaison Office of Freie Universität Berlin and Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München that was established in 2005 to deepen the research and educational relationships between these two German institutions and their U.S. and Canadian counterparts. Before representing German universities in North America, Mrs. Adam Moore was Program Manager of an international graduate program in economics in Berlin. She holds a Master in Business Administration from Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Dr. Benno W. Bunse has been the President and CEO of the German American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. in New York, since September 2006. Before joining the GACC, Dr. Bunse held various positions in the Federal Ministry of Economics including Deputy Director General for Export Controls and Economic Cooperation with North Africa and the Middle East (2003-2006) and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Export Credit Insurance (1998-2003).
His diplomatic assignments included stays at the Economics Department of the German Embassy in Tokyo (1993-1997) and at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations (1988-1989). Dr. Bunse was awarded a Juris Doctor in Münster, Germany, and a Master of Public Administration in Hartford, CT.

Dr. Cathleen S. Fisher has been engaged in transatlantic and German-American relations for over 25 years. She currently serves as President of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the professional partner organization of the Humboldt Foundation in the United States. From 2002-2006, she was Deputy Director at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), The Johns Hopkins University, where she was centrally involved in management of all operations and managed the research program. Before joining AICGS, Dr. Fisher served for ten years as a Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where she focused on nuclear arms control, export controls, and transatlantic security issues. Dr. Fisher has taught at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, in the National Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. She holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Mason University's School of Public Administration. Dr. Fisher has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn and has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the Free University of Berlin, and the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt. She has written numerous articles and monographs and has spoken in the United States, Europe, and Asia on German-American and transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy, and the role of nongovernmental organizations in nonproliferation and arms control policy.

Dr. Sebastian Fohrbeck has been Director of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) New York since January 2009. He has worked for DAAD for more than 20 years in a variety of positions in Bonn, Brussels and London, including responsibility for Eastern Europe, North America, Western Europe and, in recent years, for the internationalization of German universities and for DAAD’s strategic planning. Before joining DAAD, he was head of the International Office of the University of Paderborn and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld where he also earned his PhD. He studied sociology and economics in Hamburg, Paris and Bielefeld.

Andrea Noske has been the head of the Science and Technology Section at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, D.C. since September 2011. Prior to this assignment, she was the head of the "Basic Policy Issues; Internationalization Strategy" division at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), where she also held positions as the head of the German Delegation at the OECD Science and Technology Policy Committee and the OECD Education Policy Committee. From 2006 to 2010, she was head of the "Cabinet; Parliament" division, and in 2005, she organized the "Year of Science" for the BMBF.

From 1999 to 2003, Ms. Noske worked at the Jacobs University in Bremen during its founding stages, as the Director for Infrastructure Management and Academic Personnel. Prior to this position, in 1998, she served as the Deputy Personal Assistant to Federal Minister Jürgen Rüttgers. In 1996, she became the desk officer for Scientific Cooperation with Israel in the "Bilateral Cooperation with Western Europe, Mediterranean Countries and Africa" division at the BMBF. Her first position at the Ministry, in 1991, was in the "Laser Research and Laser Technology" division. Ms. Noske first began her career at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. She received her MSc degree in Metallurgical Sciences in 1987 from RWTH Aachen University.

Dr. Eva-Maria Streier is the Director of the DFG North America’s New York office.  Prior to coming to New York in October 2011, Dr. Streier was the head of the Press and
Public Relations Department of the DFG, a position she has held since 1985. At the DFG headquarters in Bonn, Dr. Streier oversaw a 15-person department, including six press officers and one volunteer. A trained newspaper journalist, she has also worked as a broadcast and radio reporter in Cologne, Germany. Dr. Streier holds a Ph.D. in American Literature.

Busso von Alvensleben has been the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York since July 27, 2011. Prior to this post, he was Ambassador to Ireland (2009-2011). From 2006 until 2009, von Alvensleben worked at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, as both an Ambassador and a Commissioner for Global Issues: Civilian Crisis Prevention, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid and International Terrorism.

Von Alvensleben passed his second state examination in law at the Free University of Berlin. The following year, in 1978, he joined the Federal Foreign Office. After five years at the German Embassies in Nairobi and Tel Aviv, and three years at the German Mission to the UN in Geneva, he returned to Bonn in 1990 to work for four years in the Protocol Division. From 1994 to 1998, von Alvensleben was Head of former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker’s office. This was followed by two years as Deputy Chief of Protocol back at the Federal Foreign Office and three years as both an Ambassador and Chief of Protocol. He became the German Ambassador to Sweden in 2003.