The Martin Buber Society of Fellows Scientific Board Members:

	Prof. Gerhart von Graevenitz, University of Konstanz Gerhart von Graevenitz, born 1944. studied both German and English Language and Literature as well as History of the Arts. From 1988 to 2009, he served as professor for contemporary German literature and general literature science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. From 1996 to 2000, he held the position as permanent guest professor at the Karl-University of Prague, Czech Republic. From 2000 to 2009, he was rector of the University of Konstanz. From 2006 to 2009, he was chairman of the cooperation council of the International Bodenseeschule. From 2006 to 2009, he served as chairman of the regional conference of rectors of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. From 2003 to 2009, he was a member of the commission “Studies and Teaching” at the conference of rectors of the institutions of higher education. Since 2007, he has been a member of the board of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Since 2008, he has served as a member of the council of the second German TV-channel. Since 2009, he has been a member of the advisory committee of the Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2009, he is chairman of the endowment fund Martin-Buber-Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently, he is co-editor of the German “Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte”. His research focuses on History of literature from the 17th to the 19th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Fontane, History of the media and the culture in the 20th century, literature and anthropology, and studies in literature and cultural science.
	Prof. Asher Cohen, Rector, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Asher Cohen, the Samuel Sturman Chair in Psychology, teaches in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University, and currently serves as the Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2008-2012 Asher Cohen was the Chair of the Department of Psychology. His main line of work concerns human performace and more specifically connections between the human perceptual system (with an emphasis on vision) and action systems. In addition, he studies human learning that occurs without awareness. http://psychology.huji.ac.il/en/?cmd=Faculty.113&act=read&id=98
	Prof. Sabine Kunst, Minister of Science, Research and Cultural Affairs of Brandenburg Sabine Kunst, born in 1954. Since February 2011 Prof. Kunst is Minister of Science, Research and Cultural Affairs of Brandenburg. From 2007 to 2011 she was President of the University of Potsdam. From 2005-2006 she was the Vice President of Leibniz University Hannover. Between 1991-2007 Professor at the Institute for Sanitary Environmental Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover. Prof. Kunst has a doctoral degree in engineering (1982) as well as a doctor of philosohphy degree (1990). She has worked on research projects with a focus on water technology in South Africa, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil and China. Prof. Kunst is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
	Prof. Dan Diner, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Dan Diner (Ph.D., 1973, University of Frankfurt am Main) is Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, and Director of the Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of numerous publications an twentieth-century history, Jewish history, Middle Eastern history and German history, particularly in the period of National Socialism and the Holocaust. His most recent publications include: Zeitenschwelle. Gegenwartsfragen an die Geschichte, München 2010. Lost in the Sacred. Why the Muslim World Stood Still, Princeton, N. J., 2009. English translation of: Versiegelte Zeit. Über den Stillstand in der islamischen Welt, Berlin 2005. Disseminating German Tradition. The Thyssen Lectures, Leipzig 2009 (ed. with Moshe Zimmermann). Aufklärungen. Über Varianten von Moderne, Zürich 2008. Cataclysms. A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge, Madison, Wis., 2008. English translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999. Gegenläufige Gedächtnisse. Über Geltung und Wirkung des Holocaust, Göttingen 2007. Restitution and Memory. Material Restoration in Europe, New York/Oxford 2007 (ed. with Gotthard Wunberg). Dark Times, Dire Decisions. Jews and Communism, Oxford 2005 (ed. with Jonathan Frankel). His most important books have been translated into Czech, English, Hebrew, Italian, Polish and Turkish. In 2006 he was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize, and in 2007 the Italian Premio Capalbio. Internet: www.dubnow.de
	Prof. Christof Rapp, Humboldt- University, Berlin Professor Christof Rapp, born in 1964, studied Philosophy, Ancient Greek, Logic, and Philosophy of Science in Tübingen and Munich. He obtained his doctorate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 1993 and his post-doctoral lecturing qualification (“Habilitation”) at the University of Tübingen in 2000. From 2001 to 2009, he held the Chair for Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at Humboldt-University in Berlin. In 2009, he assumed the Chair for Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His main fields of research are ancient philosophy and its relations to modern debates in ontology, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of mind. From 2001 to 2004, Professor Rapp headed the Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie e.V. He was co-director of the excellence cluster TOPOI from 2007 to 2009 and founding director of the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy in Berlin. He is editor of the journals "Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung" and "Phronesis". In October 2009, Christof Rapp was appointed as academic director of the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Additional Board Members

Solicitor Barbara Meyn

Barbara Meyn, solicitor, is an advisor for foundations at the German Center of Foundation of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Essen, Germany (Deutsches Stiftungszentrum des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft). She deals with the administrative, content-related, and legal assistance for non-profit foundations and serves as a consultant for potential foundation founders regarding programmatic, legal and fiscal-legal questions. Ms. Meyn actively assists and shapes legal-political developments, in order to improve the frameworks for foundations. Furthermore, Ms. Meyn works as a referee and is the author of countless publications on subjects related to foundations.

Internet: www.deutsches-stiftungszentrum.de
and www.stifterverband.de