DR. WALTHER LEISLER KIEP


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Honorary Chairman and Chairman Emeritus, Atlantik-Brücke e.V., Berlin

Curriculum Vitae

Political Affairs

  1999 Personal emissary of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) for special missions (i.e. to Turkey)

  1992-1998 Special Emissary of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, coordinating the Christian Democratic Union‘s relations with the U.S. Congress.

  1979 Special Envoy of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for organizing OECD financial aid to Turkey.

 1976-1980 Minister of Finance, State of Lower Saxony.

  1980-1982, 1965-1976 Member, Deutscher Bundestag, (Federal German Parliament).

  1980-1982 Deputy Chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group.

  1971-1992 Treasurer, The Christian Democratic Union.

  1988-1990 Member, Government Commission on the German Railroads.

  1987-1991 Member, Commission for Central American Recovery and Development, (Sanford Commission), Washington, D.C.


Business Affairs

Since 1999 Member, International Advisory Board, Fuji Bank Ltd., Tokyo.

1968 – 1996 Managing General Partner, 1996 – 1998 General Partner, Gradmann & Holler Holding, Stuttgart, joined in 1954.

  1972 – 2001 Member, Advisory Council, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main.

  1976 -1997 Member, Supervisory Board, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg.

  1982 – 1990 Member, Board, Bank of Montreal, Montreal

 1985 – 1993 Member, Board, ICI, London.

 1985 -1993 Chairman, Supervisory Board, Deutsche ICI, Frankfurt am Main.

  1989 – 1998 Member, International European Advisory Board, Fuji-Wolfensohn International, New York.

  1993 – 1998 Chairman, Supervisory Board, ZENECA GmbH, Plankstadt.

  1993 – 2000 Chairman, International Advisory Board, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., New York.

  1994 – 2000 Chairman, Supervisory Board, IABG, Ottobrunn.

  1995 -1997 Member, Managing Board, BDM International, Inc., McLean, Virginia.


Public Service

  1984 – 2000 Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke e.V., Berlin (Chairman Emeritus since 2001).

  Since 2004 Honorary Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke e.V., Berlin

  1994 – 2000 President, European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel.

  Since 2001Honorary President, European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel

  Since 1994 Honorary Senator, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, State of Saxony.

  Since 1997 Member, International Advisory Board, Columbia University, New York.

  Since 1998 Senior Counselor for Transatlantic and Transeuropean Affairs,
University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

  Since 1985 Member, The Trilateral Commission, New York (since 1997 Honorary Member).

  Since 1991 Chairman, Foundation Council, Youth for Understanding Foundation, Frankfurt am Main.

  Since 1993 Member, Executive Board, The “Daheim im Heim” Foundation, Bonn.

  1985 – 1996 Special Emissary of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl for the German Marshall Fund of the United States; Chairman, German Advisory Committee for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Publications

  A New Challenge for Western Europe (New York: 1973).

  Was bleibt ist große Zuversicht (Berlin: 1999).
Honorary Chairman