Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos, Entrepreneur / Historian and Political Scientist, born in Bonn, studied History, Political Science and Law at the Universities of Bonn, Harvard, Stanford, and the Sorbonne. MA 1980. Ph.D. 1986.

• since September 2006, Founder and CEO of ASPIDE GMBH in Berlin / Hongkong / Washington (www.ASPIDEpartners.com)
• in Feb. 2002 appointment as tenured Professor for International Security Policy at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam and as Founder and Executive Director of the "Potsdam Center for Transatlantic Security and Military Affairs"
• since July 2001, Co-Founder and CEO of EAG European Advisory Group GMBH in Berlin / Hongkong / Washington (www.EAGpartners.com)
• 1998-2001 Senior Advisor European and North American Markets to the CEO of BAE SYSTEMS plc: Portfolio: strategic marketing-planning, new business and political-industrial cooperation
• 2000-2001 Head of an International Commission reviewing the Greek Strategic Defense Requirements 2000- 2015 by appointment of the Greek Minister of Defense
• 1992-1997 Senior Vice President and Division Head Marketing, Communications, and International Relations of Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover
• 1995 appointment as tenured Professor of US - Foreign Policy and International Politics at the University of Braunschweig
• 1987-1992 Associate Director and member of the Board of Directors of the ASPEN-Institute Berlin and Guest Professorships at the Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, and at the University of Hannover
• 1985-1987 Communications and Marketing Manager at IBM Germany, Stuttgart
• 1975-1980 journalist / moderator at WDR-TV I/III, Cologne

• since January 2005 Chairwoman of the FDP-Transatlantic Forum
• from February 2003-December 2005 Chairwoman of the FDP-National-Committee on Foreign- and Security Policy
• since July 2002 foreign and security-policy advisor to the FDP
• Vice President of the German-Atlantic-Association, Berlin, 1991 - 2003
• member of the American Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt
• member of the American Council on Germany, New York
• member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
• member of the Study Group on Strategic Issues of the German Association for Foreign Policy, Berlin
• member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg
• member of the International Advisory Board of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid
• member of the Advisory Board of the Philharmony of Nations, Hamburg
• Founder and President of the Foundation "Dialogue of Cultures" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

articles on US- Foreign Policy, the European-American and German-American relations after 1945, transatlantic-security-policy, defense and military issues, the CSCE/OSCE- Process, or the American Presidency have appeared a.o. in Außenpolitik, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Washington Quarterly, Europäische Rundschau, International Herald Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wall Street Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NATO`s NATIONS, Military Technology, Wehrtechnik

• The Closed Society and Its Friends, Hamburg 1997
  
• On the Fragility of Democracy, Munich 1995
  
• Rendezvous with GDR - Political Myths and their Demythologyzation, Düsseldorf 1994
  
• The End of the Bonn Republic - A European View, Stuttgart 1993
  
• The New Europe - A European-American Dialogue (Ed.), Bonn/Berlin 1992
  
• History and Progress, In Search of the European and American Mind, New York 1989 (Foreword by Gordon A. Craig); German edition 1987