Executive Director
contact: Klaus.Linsenmeier[at]us.boell.org
Tel: +1 (202) 462-7513

Klaus Linsenmeier has been the Executive Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America since 2009. His fields of interest and expertise are: Foreign and Security Policy; Development and Globalization; Environment; and Democracy Promotion. He started his professional career in the private business sector (media distribution) before joining Medico International in Frankfurt, a German human rights NGO, as program-coordinator and later managing director.

Further steps in his career were closely related to the development of the Heinrich Böll Foundation:

    * 1989-1996: Director Development Programs, International Division, Buntstift (German political foundation affiliated with the Green Party), Göttingen
    * 1992-1994: Executive Board Member, Stiftungsverband Regenbogen e.V. (umbrella organization of Green-affiliated foundations), Dortmund
    * 1996-2001: Program Director, Foreign Policy and European Affairs Department, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin
    * 2001-2009: Director, International Division, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin

Mr. Linsenmeier holds a Master of Arts in Economics (Dipl. rer. pol.) from the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg/Breisgau and studied Small Enterprise Promotion at Cranfield School of Management/ UK and Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Hagen/University of Wales.
He is the father of two children.