Pia Bungarten
Advisory Board
Pia Bungarten was director of the Scholarship Fund of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Germany’s oldest political foundation. The Scholarship Fund was set up in 1925 to finance students who have demonstrated academic excellence and are committed to building and maintaining a democratic political culture. Prior to her work in the Scholarship Fund, she ran offices of the Ebert Foundation in New York (the UN Office with a focus on human rights), in Bangkok (with a focus on constitutional and social reforms) and in Washington (with a focus on transatlantic cooperation) and was the foundation’s director of International Dialogue with responsibility for over 40 offices in Europe, Russia, Central Asia and North America.
Pia founded and ran the “Global Atlanticists”, a multi-party network of analysts, parliamentarians and Congress members that focused on European American dialogue and cooperation with partners in different global regions from Northern Africa to China. She started her career working for the German Red Cross counselling services for refugees seeking political asylum in Germany.
She currently serves on the board of the Loki and Helmut Schmidt Stiftung in Hamburg.
Pia holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies and Cultural Anthropology from Amherst College, a master’s degree in political science from the University of Munich and a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.