#  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