Ulf Gartzke has been Director of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation’s Washington Office since July 2004. The Hanns-Seidel-Foundation is a political not-for-profit foundation affiliated with Germany’s ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) party.
Before joining the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Mr. Gartzke worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was in charge of the Forum’s engagement with the global automotive industry. Previously, he gained professional experience with DaimlerChrysler’s Washington Affairs Office, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the World Bank in Paris, and the CSU party in Munich.
Ulf Gartzke studied political science and international relations at the University of Augsburg in Germany, Georgetown University in Washington DC, the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris, and the London School of Economics. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies. Ulf Gartzke is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and the Toenissteiner Kreis. He is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish.
Sophie Simonard-Norman grew up in Paris with a French father and American mother, has worked on both sides of the Atlantic and was educated in Paris, London and the US. She is the former Associate Director of Atlantic Partnership. Just prior to joining AP in Washington, DC as Associate Director, Sophie worked on behalf of the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (A.A.R.O.) to advance the cause of millions of American citizens living outside the US through legislative monitoring and lobbying.
Before that Sophie lived in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she served on the Board of the International Women’s Club and worked to improve the lot of Bulgaria’s orphans.
Sophie also worked for several years with a major consulting firm in Brussels, Weber Shandwick, as she has a Master’s degree in European Public Policy. Her clients included prestigious telecommunications, high-tech and audiovisual firms. Sophie is fluent in English and French and has working knowledge of Bulgarian and Spanish.
David R. Young received a Bachelor of Science in physics from Wheaton College in Illinois in 1959. He then studied Law at Oxford University and Cornell Law School, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence, from Oxford in 1963 and a Juris Doctor degree from Cornell University in 1964. He qualified at the New York Bar and as a Barrister at the English bar in 1965. He began his career in the law with the New York firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in 1965.
In 1968 he was seconded by Milbank Tweed to the Rockefeller Family where he became Treasurer of the Rockefeller for the President Campaign Committee and met Dr. Henry Kissinger, then advising Nelson Rockefeller.
From 1969 he was first an Administrative Assistant and from 1971, Special Assistant to Dr. Kissinger in the White House and until 1973 a member of the National Security Council Staff in Washington, D.C. In 1974 he returned to Oxford University to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations, which he completed in 1981.
In 1975 he established Oxford Analytica, an international consulting firm drawing on the scholarship of Oxford University and other major universities to provide business and government leaders with timely and authoritative analysis of world events.
Since 1975 he has also served as Lecturer in Politics at Queen’s college, Oxford University. In addition, he is a Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony’s College, a Dominus Fellow of St. Catherine’s College and Senior Common Room Member of University College. Since 1980 he has been an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
He is married to Susannah Kelly and lives in Oxford, England with their five children.
