Karsten Voigt

From 1960–1969, Voigt studied history, German, and Scandinavian languages and literature at the universities in Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Frankfurt. ==Political career==

From 1969 until 1972, Voigt was chairman of the Jusos. From 1976 to 1998, Voigt was a member of the German parliament, representing Frankfurt am Main I - Main-Taunus. In 1976, he was elected to the Bundestag for the first time. In 1983, the SPD parliamentary group made him their foreign policy spokesman; he held this office until leaving the parliament in 1998. From 1999 to 2010, Voigt served as the "Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation" at the Foreign Office of Germany, under successive foreign ministers Joschka Fischer and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He is a board member of the Atlantik-Brücke, an association which promotes German-American understanding. ==Other activities==

• Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board • Einstein Forum, Member of the Board of Trustees • Ernst Reuter Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees • German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Member of the Steering Committee • European Leadership Network (ELN), Senior Network Member ==See also==