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Business/Finance
Timothy Brooks (2001-02)
Tim is a Vice President of Client Management at State Street Bank & Trust in Boston. Both before and after his participation in the German Chancellor Fellowship Program, he was a state finance official in Indiana and Massachusetts. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Tim spent the year at the University of Hamburg. His project evolved from a comparative financial analysis of the roles of various levels of government and NGOs in the delivery of government services into a study of German school decentralization efforts and finally in a position paper on the suitability of charter schools for Germany. Tim is a second-generation Humboldtian, having lived in Hamburg during his father's Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1974-75. His two daughters might become the third generation, having attended German schools and continuing their German at language camp every summer. (3/25/10)
Susan Duggan (1990-91)
Susan writes:"I am pleased to be in my 7th year as senior strategist for the U.S. Government's Language Flagship helping create global professionals out of our American universities who come from a great variety of disciplines and achieve very high levels of command in their chosen second language. We need to support this throughout all of our educational institutions. Beyond this, after 12 years running my company, the Silicon Valley World Internet Center, I quietly shut it down and took a break. We played an important role at the very early days of the Internet Revolution, but it was time to move on. Now, in 2011 I have created its successor, the "Smart World Center" to offer businesses a way to exchange ideas that will help the world be smarter, safer, more creative, and more protective of our environment and our resources than ever before. So far, through this new entity I have been honored to build a bridge between the agricultural industry in the Monterey Bay region and innovative technologists to solve some of the major problems that face our food supply. Again, here comes the connection back to Germany as SAP continues to be a creative player in this innovative space. On the Fun Front, I won several silver belt buckles on my horse last year competing in gymkhanas (speed and skill events) and local shows. We also compete regularly in "ranch sorting" -- chasing cows! I enjoy playing music in our band, "Dirty Grits and the Roper Chics" and look forward to jazz jams at my home." (5/17/11)
Kevin Kenny (1992-93)
Kevin is Chief Operating Officer of a small Washington, DC-based company named Decernis, which specializes in international Food, Chemicals and Consumer Products regulatory compliance. Kevin travels heavily in Europe and Asia, building strategic relationships with large manufacturers, governmental agencies, and regulatory consultants. Kevin comes from a legal background, with both a J.D. and an LL.M. in International Law. His German Chancellor Fellowship project in Kiel was on the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention in public international law. After the fellowship, Kevin stayed on to work at the International Law Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel for two years. (6/26/09)
Mark Pitts (2002-03)
Andrei Stoica (1995-96)
Andrei is a partner in Nomea, a firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with satellite offices in India, that helps clients engineer and implement effective, cost-efficient business processes in rapid deployment scenarios. Andrei previously co-founded Panopticon, a company which addressed the challenge of online, real-time, intelligent merchandizing. In 2000 the company was acquired, as Panop.com, by Broadbase Corporation. Prior to his industry experience, he was a lecturer at Stanford University in the Electrical Engineering Department, teaching advanced hardware design. In 1994 Andrei graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and in 1997 he earned a master's in electrical engineering, both from Stanford University. (6/8/07)
Kirsten Traynor (2006-07)
Kirsten is currently pursuing a PhD in Biology at Arizona State University, working in the research lab of Dr. Robert Page. Her research focuses on the behavior and biology of the honey bee with an emphasis on pheromone communication. She is also probing the effects of aging and longevity, for which the honey bee is an excellent model organism. During her German Chancellor Fellowship Kirsten was based at the Institute for Bee Research in Celle, Germany. She continues to write for numerous magazines, photograph avidly and write fiction and poetry in her spare time. To see some of the photographs from her time in Europe, visit www.flowerslovebees.com or www.honeything.com. (7/2/09)
Justin Tumlinson (2004-05)
As a guest of the Bavarian Ministry of Economics and Earlybird Venture Capital of Munich, Tumlinson extended his doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, on applications of quantitative techniques to potential policies that utilize private investment for public benefit. He received his master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. Tumlinson was recently a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and worked for six years as an operations advisor to Intel Corporation. His publications include several journal and conference publications as well as a public intellectual property disclosure. (4/21/06)
Nicholas Wagner (2009-10)
Nicholas has spent his professional career focused on the development of business relations between the EU and the USA. Nicholas studied international business at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he chose to focus his business studies on the development of the European single market, and it's implication and relation to the United States. He has narrowed his focus over the years to the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency, specifically as it relates to energy policy and entrepreneurial activity within these industries. Nicholas will focus his BUKA research stay on analysing how German renewable energy policy, specifically its feed-in tariff mechanism, has affected renewable energy implementation, employment, pricing and entrepreneurial activity. His study will also analyse renewable energy policy in the United States, particularly in California, with additional focus on American entrepreneurial culture within this emerging market segment. (7/2/09)
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