Karsten Brenner, Director General (ret.)

	born 1940 in Hamburg

President of the Board of Directors since October 2005

At the same time active as policy advisor for the international cooperation in the field of education.

 

until 2002	Director General with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (European and international cooperation, promotion of the humanities incl. Germany’s Cultural Institutes abroad, Chairman of different committees, e.g. on the level of the EU and the OECD)
1978-1994	Head of the planning group of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science, later Director of the Ministry’s sub-department for educational planning and economics, educational promotion, international cooperation and the German unification process in the fields of education and sciences
1972-1978	Chief of the Minister’s Office of the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, and Health, later head of the Ministry’s planning group
1969-1972	Personal assistant of the Parliamentary Secretary with the Federal Chancellor
1967-1969	Assistant with the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democratic Party at the German Bundestag
1961-1966	Studies of Economics and Political Science at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg (Diploma in Economics)
1959-1961	Apprenticeship (Foreign Trade Merchant)

Decorations:

 

Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for building up the joint Center „Villa Vigoni“

 

Brazilian Cross of the South for the enhancement of the German-Brazilian cooperation in the fields of education, science and technology