Karl Kaiser CV English

 
CV Prof. Dr.  KARL KAISER


Born in 1934. Studied Economics and Political Science at Cologne University
1954-58, Degree of Diplom-Kaufmann.

Graduate studies at University of Grenoble, 1988-59 (D.E.S. de Science
Politique) and Oxford University (Nuffield College), 1961-63. Simultaneously
Ph.D. at Cologne University (Dr.rer.pol.).

Harvard University, first working for Henry Kissinger, then as Research
Associate at the Center for International Affairs, Head Tutor in Social Studies
and Lecturer in Government, 1963-68. Return to Harvard as Visiting Professor
several times.

Professorships at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna (Italy), Universities of
Saarbruecken, Cologne, Florence, Bonn, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Otto-Wolff-Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations Bonn/Berlin 1973-
2003

Member of the Federal Commission for the Reform of the Federal Armed
Services, Member of the Council of Environmental Advisors of Germany, Expert
member of several commissions of enquiry of the German Parliament, Testimonials
in the German and Dutch Parliaments, the US Senate Armed Services Committee and
the House Subcommittee on European Affairs of the US Congress.

 

Member of the boards of IFRI (Paris), ASAN (Seoul) EUCERS (London), INTERNATIONALE POLITIK (Berlin), Asia-Pacific Review (Tokyo), Russia in Global Affairs (Moscow), Federal Academy of Security Policy (Berlin), American Council on Germany (New York), and of the Advisory Boards of the American Jewish Committee Berlin


Occasional Political Advisor to Chancellors Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt,  and to Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

Author/editor of numerous articles and books in the fields of
world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, East-West
relations, Nuclear Proliferation, strategic theory, international economics,
international environmental policy (see list of publications).

 

 Honorary Doctor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prix Bentinck,
Atlantic Award of NATO, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Commander of the British Empire (UK), Officier de la Légion d’Honneur (F), Order of Merit 1st Class (D), Order of Merit 1st Class (Pl)

Present Position: Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., USA