Pia Bungarten
Pia Bungarten committed her career to promoting dialogue on democracy and international cooperation at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany’s oldest political foundation. She served as director of its flagship Scholarship Fund set up in 1925 to support students committed to building and maintaining a democratic political culture and as director of International Dialogue with responsibility for over 40 offices in Europe, Russia, Central Asia and North America.
She founded the “Global Atlanticists”, a multi-party network of analysts, parliamentarians and Congress members focused on European-American dialogue and cooperation. She also led the Ebert Foundation’s offices in New York, Bangkok and Washington.
Pia started her career working for the German Red Cross counselling services for refugees seeking political asylum in Germany. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, a master’s degree from the University of Munich, and a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.