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Board Members
Daniel Fallon, Ph.D.
President
 Daniel
Fallon served from 2000 to 2007 as Chair of the Education Division of Carnegie Corporation
of New York, supervising the award and administration of grants
in support of teacher education reform, urban school reform, intermediate
and adolescent literacy, and other areas of education important
to the national interest. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology
and of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park,
where he also served as Vice-President for Academic Affairs and
Provost. Dr. Fallon held earlier appointments as Dean of the College
of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, Dean of the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver,
and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and of Harpur College at
Binghamton University. Dr. Fallon has published widely on learning
and motivation through his work in experimental psychology, on academic
public policy, and on comparative higher education. He is the author
of a prize winning book, The German University: A Heroic Ideal
in Conflict with the Modern World (1980).
Ulrike Albrecht, Ph.D.
Vice-President
 Ulrike
Albrecht has been Head of the Department for Strategic Planning
and External Relations at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
in Bonn, Germany, since July 2001. In this capacity she is responsible
for special programs, public relations, promotion, and relations
with the Advisory Board for the Transatlantic Science and Humanities
Program. From 1997 to 2001 Dr. Albrecht was head of the Department
for Strategic Planning and Research at the University of Heidelberg.
Prior to that, she served first as director of the public relations
office and then as executive director of the “Conference of
the German Academies of Science and Humanities” in Mainz.
Dr. Albrecht holds graduate degrees in History and English and a
Ph.D. in History from the University of Göttingen, where she
also worked as assistant professor at the Institute of Economic
and Social History.
A. Stephen Dahms, Ph.D.
Treasurer
 Stephen Dahms is President and CEO of the Alfred. E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering and oversees the creation at elite U.S. universities of 12 to 15 new biomedical product commercialization institutes, initially funded at $150-200 million each. A biochemist-molecular biologist, Dahms was Professor of Chemistry at San Diego State University (1972-2006), founding director of the SDSU Molecular Biology Institute (1974-1992), director of the SDSU Biotechnology Research Program (1992-96), Director of the SDSU Center for Bio/Pharmaceutical and Biodevice Development (1996-2006) and Executive Director of CSUPERB, the biotechnology research and education program in the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, the nation's largest university system, from 1987-2006. He serves on the boards of directors for a number of biotechnology trade groups and organizations, research foundations, and other organizations representing over fifty percent of the U.S. biotechnology and medical device industries. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Council of Biotechnology Centers/BIO and a member of national and international committees and commissions addressing the facilitation of interdisciplinary research and interfaces within the academic-bio/pharm/med device industry. Dahms is widely published and, between 2001 and 2004, coordinated a dozen symposia. He received the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1979.
Matthias Vorwerk, Ph.D.
Secretary
 Matthias Vorwerk is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He specializes in Ancient Philosophy, especially the philosophy of Plato, Plotinus and the Platonic Tradition. After receiving his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Münster in Germany, he worked as a Post-Doc Research Assistant in a project on the History of Platonism in Antiquity at the University of Münster. Subsequently, Matthias Vorwerk received a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation to continue his research at Trinity College and University College Dublin, Ireland. In 2005, he was awarded membership in the Academia Platonica Septima. Since he arrived in the US in 2003, Prof. Vorwerk has served on the Calder-Fellowship Selection Committee.
Robert P. Grathwol, Ph.D.
 Robert
P. Grathwol served from January 1998 to December 2007 as director of the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation’s activities in the United States,
and, from 2004 to July 2008, as President of the board of directors of American
Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Grathwol is
also a partner in R & D Associates, a historical research and
consulting firm which he co-founded in 1988. He is the principal
author of Berlin and the American Military: A Cold War Chronicle (1999), Oral History and Postwar German-American Relations:
Resources in the United States (1997), and Building for
Peace: The U.S. Army Engineers in Europe, 1945-1991 (2006).
For over two decades he held faculty appointments, most recently
at Washington State University from 1979 to 1990. He was a Fulbright
Scholar in France and, during a Humboldt Research Fellowship in
Germany, completed his first book, Stresemann and the DNVP:
Reconciliation and Revenge in German Foreign Policy, 1924-1928 (1980). Dr. Grathwol has degrees from Providence College (B.A.),
the University of Strasbourg (Diplôme Supérieur), and
the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).
Thomas Hesse, Ph.D.
 Thomas
Hesse has been Head of the Selection Department at the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, since 1999. As head of
this department he is responsible for all matters regarding the
selection of fellows and awardees of the Humboldt Foundation. Prior
to that, he served as Program Director in the Selection Department
and in the Department of Sponsorship Abroad. Dr. Hesse studied biology
in Bonn with an emphasis on botany, plant molecular biology, genetics,
and biochemistry. Afterward he worked as a scientific associate
at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding, received his Ph.D.
from the University of Bonn and continued his studies at the Max-Planck-Institute.
As a Max Planck Society Fellow, Dr. Hesse conducted research at
Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1990 he was awarded
the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society for research in the
area of Plant Molecular Biology.
Eric Koenig
 Eric
Koenig is a lawyer in Washington, DC. Mr. Koenig joined Microsoft
in 1991 as senior attorney in the company's European office in Paris,
France. His responsibilities included intellectual property, antitrust,
litigation, trade, and management of legal and corporate affairs
in Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, including Germany, the
company's largest European market. In 1998 Mr. Koenig transferred
to Washington, DC, where he served as the head of the federal policy
team. In 2001 he retired from Microsoft. A magna cum laude graduate
of Princeton University and a Root-Tilden Scholar at New York University
School of Law, he was in the first class of German Chancellor Fellows
selected by the Humboldt Foundation in 1990. He is President of
the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Law Center and a member of
the boards of several other non-profit organizations, including
Global Rights, Appleseed, and the Advisory Committee of the Asia
Society's Washington Center. He also has served on the Dean's Strategic
Council at the New York University Law School and is a member of
the Law School's Steering Committee for its current capital campaign.
Peggy Kuo
 Peggy is Chief Hearing Officer for the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, she was counsel with the law firm of WilmerHale in New York City. From 1998 until 2002, she was a trial attorney with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the The Hague, where she prosecuted war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. She has also been a trial attorney and Acting Deputy Chief with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Criminal Section and an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, DC. She graduated from Harvard Law School and Yale College. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Peggy studied the German criminal law system in Berlin and Freiburg.
Jaan Laane, Ph.D.
 Jaan Laane is Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, College Station, where he has been since 1968, becoming a full professor in 1976. His research utilizes laser and infrared spectroscopy and focuses on understanding the forces determining molecular structures. He has more than 270 publications and he is editor of three books of which the latest is Frontiers of Molecular Spectroscopy (2008). He has received numerous awards including the E. R. Lippincott Award in molecular spectroscopy in 2005. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and to the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He is editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure. He has served on the board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America since 2003 and has been president of the AvHAA for 2007-2008. Dr. Laane has his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois with Highest Distinction, his Ph.D. from M.I.T., and an honorary doctorate from Tartu University in Estonia. His Humboldt Award in 1979-1980 was spent at the Universität Bayreuth. He has served as Faculty Senate Speaker and Associate Dean of Science at Texas A&M and on the board of directors and as treasurer of the Coblentz Society.
Arnim H. Meyburg, Ph.D.
 Arnim H. Meyburg is a Professor of Transportation Engineering and Planning in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, where he has been since 1969, immediately following the completion of his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University. He did his undergraduate studies at Hamburg University and the Free University of Berlin. Meyburg is the Director of the Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium (TIRC), a consortium of ten universities and two research labs, since its inception in 1996. At Cornell, he was Director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1988 to 1998 and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Engineering from 1980 to 1985. A consultant to various U.S. and foreign governmental and private agencies, Meyburg held visiting professorships in the United States, Germany, and Brazil. Major awards include a Humboldt-Foundation Fellowship (1978/79), Humboldt Research Award (1984); a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award for Brazil, 1984; Professor-of-the-Year, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (1984, 1994, 1997.); Daniel M. Lazar ’29 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering (1999 and 2002.) His major research interests are travel demand modeling, travel survey methodologies, freight transportation, urban and regional transportation planning, transportation-communications trade-offs, transportation and the environment. He has served on the board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America and has been its vice-president for 2007-2008.
Donita M. Moorhus
 Donita
M. Moorhus served as deputy director of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation’s activities in the United States from 1998 to
2004, and as Executive Director of American Friends
of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2004-2007. Ms. Moorhus is principal partner in R
& D Associates, a historical research and consulting firm founded
in 1988. She has co-authored Berlin and the American Military:
A Cold War Chronicle (1999), Oral History and Postwar German-American
Relations: Resources in the United States (1997), and Building
for Peace: The U.S. Army Engineers in Europe, 1945-1991 (2006).
She has conducted hundreds of oral history interviews with high-ranking
military officers, government senior executives, business leaders,
members of Congress, and journalists. She assisted numerous organizations
in creating oral history programs and directed the Women in Journalism
Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and
several foundations. Ms. Moorhus received a B.A. from the University
of Michigan and an M.S.S. from Fordham University.
Cathleen S. Fisher, Ph.D. (Ex-Officio Member)
Executive Director
 Cathleen S. Fisher joined American Friends as Executive Director in 2008. 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. 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.
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