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American Friends announces new Executive Director:
Cathleen S. Fisher
Cathleen S. Fisher has been engaged in German-American relations for over 25 years and has wide-ranging experience with nonprofit program and institutional management. From 2002-2006, she was Deputy Director at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), The Johns Hopkins University, where she was centrally involved in management of all operations and programs in support of the Institute’s mission. Before joining AICGS, Fisher served for ten years as a Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a nonprofit public policy institute in Washington, D.C. focusing on international and national security issues.
Her research stays in Germany include a year as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Bonn and almost two years at the Free University of Berlin. In 1992 she was a visiting fellow at the Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Frankfurt a.M.
Fisher has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University and has taught at Emory University. She has written and spoken in the United States, Europe, and Asia on German-American and transatlantic relations, U.S. defense policy, nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, and European and German defense policy.
Dr. Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Mason University’s School of Public Administration.
Fisher resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Dr. Banning Garrett, Director of the Initiative for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate at the Asia Society's Center for U.S.-China Relations.
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