Conference Ethics and Digitalization V - Deidre Berger

Deidre Berger is Chair of the Executive Board of the Jewish Digital Recovery Project Foundation, a central data platform for archival material on cultural objects looted by National Socialists, their allies, and collaborators. Prior to this appointment, she spent two decades as Director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin / Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, also serving as Senior European Affairs Advisor for AJC Europe.
Ms. Berger is Co-founder and Associate Partner of the Tikvah Institut gUG, a Berlin-based organization linking research and public policy to combat antisemitism and foster Jewish perspectives. She is also Co-founder and Board Chair of Forum Democracy in Berlin, a citizen´s initiative to stimulate intergenerational debates about challenges to democracy. In addition, she is Co-Chair of the Management Board of IsraAID Germany, Deputy Board Chair of Masorti Germany, and Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Leo Trepp Foundation, which sponsors student competitions on Jewish life. She was previously the chair of the advisory board of the German Interior Ministry’s Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance. Additionally, Ms. Berger is a member of the advisory boards of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, House of the Wannsee Conference, and the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim, Poland. She is a member of Atlantik-Brücke, the German Council on Foreign Relations, and Global Bridges. The German President’s Office awarded her in 2008 the German Federal Cross of Merit for her service in German-Jewish relations.
Prior to joining the AJC in 1999, Ms. Berger worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent, reporting on German and European affairs for National Public Radio, Deutsche Welle international broadcast network, and other print and broadcast media. She speaks frequently on contemporary political issues, including European and transatlantic relations, Mideast affairs, antisemitism and extremism, German and European Jewish life, and intercultural and interreligious dialogue.