Prof. Dr. Margarita Mathiopoulos

About Margarita Mathiopoulos

Margarita Mathiopoulos studied history, political science, and law at the universities of Bonn, the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Stanford. She completed her studies with a master’s degree in 1980 and earned her doctorate under Karl-Dietrich Bracher in 1986. During this time, she also worked as a freelance journalist and moderator at WDR in Cologne.

After her doctorate, she worked as a manager in communication and marketing at IBM in Stuttgart. In the late 1980s, she was the Deputy Director of the ASPEN Institute in Berlin and simultaneously taught US foreign policy and international politics as a lecturer at FU-Berlin; she later held visiting professorships at Humboldt University and the University of Hanover; in 1995, she was appointed the first honorary professor in the 250-year history of TU-Braunschweig; in 2001, Mathiopoulos was appointed honorary professor for US foreign policy and international security at the University of Potsdam, where she continues to teach today.

From 1992 to 1997, she was a bank director and head of communication and marketing at Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover. At the end of 1997, she moved to London and became chief advisor to the chairman of BAE SYSTEMS for the European and North American market.

In 2001, Mathiopoulos returned to Berlin and became a co-founder and managing director of the EAG European Advisory Group in Berlin, Hong Kong, and Washington, a globally operating task force for governments in the fields of energy security/cyber security solutions/strategic evaluation of armed forces. Since 2006, she has also been the founder and managing director of the ASPIDE Group, also in Berlin, Hong Kong, and Washington. ASPIDE operates in the fields of water/renewable energy/oil/gas and metals. Both groups have 300 partners worldwide and are active in 27 markets (Europe, USA, China, Japan, Africa, Israel, Near and Middle East, Gulf States, Caucasus).

The expert in US foreign policy and international security issues is a sought-after speaker worldwide; she has published seven books, including the bestseller “The End of the Bonn Republic” (1993) and is currently working on her eighth book “Insights into the Centers of Power.” Over the past two decades, she has written numerous articles in renowned daily newspapers (including International Herald Tribune, FAZ, SZ, Welt, NZZ) and professional publications in Europe and the USA, including on American foreign policy, European-American and German-American relations since 1945, transatlantic security and defense policy, and the American presidency.

She is a member of the IISS in London, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg, the American Council on Germany in New York, the German Society for Foreign Policy in Berlin, and the International Advisory Board of the Business School Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid.

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