Each year, CES welcomes policymakers, academics and journalists to come to the Center for a short period of time to share their experiences and take a break from their busy schedules while researching and advancing their work by leveraging Harvard's resources. John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellows are German nationals who are supported by the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship for these short stays. The following fellows came to CES from 2010-2022.
John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellows (2010-2023)
Isabel Schayani of the German broadcaster WDR was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at CES in 2017.
2010-2023
China Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2010-2011, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Head of the International Policy Analysis Department, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2018, CES, Harvard University
Chief German Economist, ING Bank; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2019, CES, Harvard University
Professor of Political Economy, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies; International Chief Economist, Centro Europa Ricerche (CER); John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2019, CES, Harvard University
Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; Member of the Bundestag & Vice Chancellor (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (2018), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014, CES, Harvard University
Member of the Bundestag, Federal Republic of Germany; Board Member, Atlantik-Brücke; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Photographer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1959-2004); Honorary Professor of Photography, Darmstadt University of Applied Arts, Faculty of Design; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2015-2016, CES, Harvard University
Political Editor, Die Zeit; Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States; Senior Expert, Atlantik-Brücke; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Justice of the Second Senate, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014-2015, CES, Harvard University
Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel (2008-2013); John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2013-2014, CES, Harvard University
Editor-in-Chief, WirtschaftsWoche; Professor of Corporate Communication, University of St. Gallen; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2015-2016, CES, Harvard University
Director of the Research Unit Democracy and Democratization (2004 - 2020), Berlin Social Science Center (WZB); John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Social Europe; Managing Director, New Global Strategy; Research Associate, Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017, CES, Harvard University
Associate Editor, The Financial Times; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2014, CES, Harvard University
Founding Secretary, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Former Executive Board Assistant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD – German academic exchange service); John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2015, CES, Harvard University
Policy Advisor, German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Head of Secretariat, National Skills Strategy Task Force, German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (Fall 2022), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Political Correspondent & Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2012-2013, CES, Harvard University
Foreign Editor, Die Zeit; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (Fall 2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Project Leader, WDRforyou; Editor, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR); John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University
Civil Rights Activist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014-2015, CES, Harvard University
Vice Chief of Staff, Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Novelist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016 & 2008, CES, Harvard University
Professor of Economics, Bonn Graduate School of Economics; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2013, CES, Harvard University
Executive Director, Das Progressive Zentrum; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair in European Neighborhood Policy, College of Europe; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Civil Rights Activist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014-2015, CES, Harvard University
Head of Economic Policy, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2015-2016, CES, Harvard University
Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
Economist and Politician; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2012-2013, CES, Harvard University
Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Professor of Economics, Bonn University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2015-2016, CES, Harvard University
Dean of the Hertie School of Governance & Director of the Research Unit "International Institutions and Transnational Conflicts", Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
