McCloy Academic Scholarship Program

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The McCloy program , launched in 1983, enables highly qualified students of all subjects to complete a two-year public policy master’s degree for future executives at Harvard Kennedy School . In addition to qualifying for public and international organizations, the aim of the program is to promote transatlantic understanding and to continue to network the McCloy scholarship holders over the two-year joint course. The program is one of the most highly endowed scholarships in Germany; six scholarships are awarded annually.

History of the program

The idea of ​​creating a McCloy Academic Scholarship Program goes back to Shepard Stone , whose suggestion was taken up by the Volkswagen Foundation in 1983. The objectives of the program were to strengthen the transatlantic dialogue and to train young German employees in the USA. The Volkswagen Foundation worked with the German National Academic Foundation to recruit, select and support the scholarship holders . The program was named after John Jay McCloy in recognition of his special achievements in the reconstruction of Germany after World War II and the transatlantic dialogue.

The original funding of the McCloy program by the Volkswagen Foundation ended in 1993. Further financing came from a McCloy scholarship foundation at the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft , the participation of Harvard University through the financing of ten study places per year and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology from funds from the ERP special fund . The Haniel Foundation has played a key role in promoting the program since 2002 . The McCloy Scholarship Foundation is also involved in the funding.

Harvard professor Mathias Risse has been the director of the McCloy program since 2003.

McCloy Scholars (selection)

  • Thorsten Benner , Co- Founder and Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) , MPA 2003
  • Gunilla Fincke, Head of Division for Fundamental Questions of Migration and Integration Policy at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, MPA 2005
  • Thomas Geisel , Lord Mayor of the State Capital Düsseldorf, MPA 1992
  • Arzu Hatakoy, project manager at the Society for International Cooperation in Beirut, MPA 2005
  • Dietmar Harhoff, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, MPA 1987
  • Nicolaus Henke, Global Leader of McKinsey Analytics, MPA 1990
  • Uwe Jean Heuser , head of the business section of the newspaper Die Zeit , MPA 1991
  • Felix Hufeld , President of BaFin, MPA 1988
  • Horst J. Kayser, Chief Strategy Officer, Siemens AG, MPA 1989
  • Katrin Krömer, Head of Personnel and Management Development at Deutsche Bahn AG, MPA 1999
  • Susanna Krüger, managing director and chairwoman of the board of Save the Children Germany, MPA 2002
  • Sergey Lagodinsky , Member of the European Parliament (Alliance 90 / The Greens), MPA 2003
  • Jörg Kukies , State Secretary in the BMF and former Co- Head of Germany, Goldman Sachs, MPA 1997
  • Ulrike Malmendier , Professor of Economics, Berkeley, MPA 2001
  • Julia Monar, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Moldova and Commissioner for Export Control at the Federal Foreign Office, MPA 1989
  • Anna Elisabeth Prinz , Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Australia, MPA 1986
  • Ute Sacksofsky , Professor of Public Law and Comparative Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and 2003-2008 State Attorney at the State Court of Hesse, MPA 1986
  • Gregor Peter Schmitz , editor-in-chief of the Augsburger Allgemeine, MPA 2005
  • Wolfgang Silbermann, Head of Speeches and Texts at the Office of the Federal President, MPP 2012
  • Julia Steets, Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), MPA 2002
  • Ralf Stegner , state chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein SPD , Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein from 2005 to 2008 , MPA 1989
  • Constanze Stelzenmüller , Bosch Fellow at Brookings, previously Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Foundation for Peace Research , MPA 1988
  • Klaus Tilmes, Senior Advisor, President's Initiative on Disruptive Technology for Development, The World Bank, MPA 1988
  • Michaela Wiegel, Political Correspondent FAZ Paris, MPA 1995
  • Michaela Wintrich, Managing Director of the Hans Weisser Foundation, MPP 2012
  • Dominik Wullers, chairman and co-founder of the Association of German Soldiers, MPA 2020
  • Lars Zimmermann, founder of the New Responsibility Foundation , MPA 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ McCloy Program | Academic Foundation of the german people. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Program - McCloys. Accessed July 15, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Website of the Haniel Foundation on the McCloy Scholarship. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  4. ^ McCloy Program | Academic Foundation of the german people. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Website of the director of the McCloy program, Mathias Risse. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .