Annette Heuser
Managing Director, Prof. Otto Beisheim Foundation
Annette Heuser is executive director of the Prof. Otto Beisheim Stiftung in Munich, Germany. The foundation, newly established in Munich, focuses its work on project development and support of existing projects with the goal of providing opportunities for children, young adults, and the aging population in the areas of education, health, culture and sports.
Formerly, Ms. Heuser was executive director and founder of the Washington, DC office of the Bertelsmann Foundation, a private, non-partisan operational foundation that promotes and strengthens trans-Atlantic cooperation. She previously established the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Brussels office and served as its executive director from 2000 to 2006. From 1995 to 2000, she was director Europe/USA at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Gütersloh, Germany. In this function, she managed European and trans-Atlantic projects, and developed European networking activities.
In the corporate sector, Ms. Heuser served as vice president of international relations at Bertelsmann AG (now Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA), Europe’s largest media company. She was editor of the Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration, an annual publication that covers institutional and political developments in European integration.
Ms. Heuser studied political science, law and sociology at the University of Mainz in Germany. She has authored articles on trans-Atlantic relations and European affairs that have appeared in major US and European publications, and she has appeared on numerous television news programs. Ms. Heuser is a member of the Hague Institute for Global Justice Supervisory Board, the Atlantic Council Board of Directors and its Strategic Advisors Group. She is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.