The following people are part of the Selection Committee that will choose the participants of the 2025 Young Königswinter Conference:
Peter Brock
Peter Brock is an independent Family Office Services Consultant and long-standing Chairman of the Investment Committee of a large Swiss Single Family Office.
Peter co-founded and is Managing Partner of BeeWyzer GmbH (www.beewyzer.com), an Online Video Training Masterclass for NextGens of entrepreneurial families of wealth, covering family governance and wealth structuring.
Also, Peter works in the impact investing space advising family offices to execute sustainable investment strategies in all asset classes. He is co-founder of the federal German initiative for impact investing (Working group “Family Offices”) and Managing Director of The Impact Investing Magazin (www.impactinvestings.de). Also, he is mentor for impact startup accelerators Anthropia / Impact Factory of the Haniel family, at BRYCK (accelerator of the RAG-Stiftung), at Phineo Startups and also at the impact venture fund Revent Ventures.
His expertise lies in advising entrepreneurial families in setting up a family office for holistic wealth structuring solutions, family governance and succession issues as well as M&A advisory assisting family investors in direct investment projects and impact investing.
From 2019 to 2022 Peter was Managing Director setting up the impact investing multi family office 4L Capital AG and Investment Director at the single family office 4L Vision GmbH.
Until 2018 Peter Brock was Executive Director and Leader Family Office Services in EMEIA/GSA at EY (Ernst & Young). Since over 25 years he works in Investment Banking / SME Corporate Finance transactions and in Private Banking initially at Deloitte and the WestLBGroup in London, then HSBC Trinkaus and Sal. Oppenheim, prior to EY.
Dr Birgit Bujard
Dr Birgit Bujard is a political scientist and Executive Manager of the Institute for Political Science and European Affairs at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on British politics and EU-UK relations.
She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Turkey and European Union studies (CETEUS) and member of the Team Europe Direct, the speakers pool of the European Commission.
Since 2018 she is Deputy Chair of the Young Königswinter Alumni Association (YKWA e.V.). She attended the Young Königswinter Conference in 2011.
Neelam Cartmell,
Neelam Cartmell, a British national, was born and raised in Germany before moving to the UK for the remainder of her late teens and early twenties. Over the past 20 years, she has worked in London, Paris, and Brussels and is now back in Berlin to help launch a new venture by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her expertise spans politics, government affairs, communications, and sales.
Passionate about maintaining her connection to Germany and her native language, Neelam has founded and led German Language and Culture Clubs at her workplaces, such as the Bank of England and Politico Europe. Outside of work, she enjoys dancing, traveling, organizing, personal finance, politics, and spending time with family and friends.
John Kampfner
John Kampfner has had a long career in public life spanning global affairs, politics and culture. He is the author of seven books and is working on his eighth.
He began his journalistic career with the Telegraph, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Wall and German unification, then in Moscow during the collapse of Soviet Communism. He went on to work for the FT and BBC covering UK politics. As Editor of the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008, he took the magazine to 30-year circulation highs.
He writes regular columns for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico and Der Spiegel. He is a regular contributor on broadcast media. He has a weekly Substack column, in which he analyses the state of Germany and the world.
His most recent book, ‘In Search of Berlin’, was published in 2023. He has made many programmes for BBC TV and radio, including a two-parter called ‘The Ugly War’ on the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2002, for which he was awarded Film of the Year and Journalist of the Year.
He is a Board member of the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. In 2021, he set up the UK in the World programme at Chatham House, becoming its first director. He ran the free expression organisation, Index on Censorship, between 2008 and 2011; he subsequently advised Google on these issues. He was on the Council of King’s College London between 2012 and 2015 and Chair of the Clore Social Leadership programme from 2015 to 2018.
For eight years, from 2008 to 2016, he was founder Chair of Turner Contemporary, establishing one of the UK’s most successful art galleries. He was the founder of the Creative Industries Federation. He is now Chair of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London.
Mari Mittelhaus
Mari Mittelhaus is the Executive Director and a board member of the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft e.V. (DBG), where she has worked since 2018. The DBG is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental and politically independent registered association. Its aim is to promote German-British relations in all areas of public and cultural interest.
Mari is responsible for organising the DBG’s four Königswinter Conferences, as well as a public lecture programme, administering the membership base and the network of German-British Associations in Germany. As a graduate of Humboldt University’s Master in British Studies, fostering German-British relations has been important for her for a long time. Having lived in the UK and the US, building bridges between societies through exchange and culture is both a professional and a personal passion of hers. Mari has an interdisciplinary background in business, event management and English politics, law, literature and culture.
She has organised the Young Königswinter Conference for 8 years and also sits on the board of the Young Königswinter Alumni Organisation.
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The following people are part of the Selection Committee that will choose the participants of the 2025 Young Königswinter Conference:
Peter Brock is an independent Family Office Services Consultant and long-standing Chairman of the Investment Committee of a large Swiss Single Family Office.
Peter co-founded and is Managing Partner of BeeWyzer GmbH (www.beewyzer.com), an Online Video Training Masterclass for NextGens of entrepreneurial families of wealth, covering family governance and wealth structuring.
Also, Peter works in the impact investing space advising family offices to execute sustainable investment strategies in all asset classes. He is co-founder of the federal German initiative for impact investing (Working group “Family Offices”) and Managing Director of The Impact Investing Magazin (www.impactinvestings.de). Also, he is mentor for impact startup accelerators Anthropia / Impact Factory of the Haniel family, at BRYCK (accelerator of the RAG-Stiftung), at Phineo Startups and also at the impact venture fund Revent Ventures.
His expertise lies in advising entrepreneurial families in setting up a family office for holistic wealth structuring solutions, family governance and succession issues as well as M&A advisory assisting family investors in direct investment projects and impact investing.
From 2019 to 2022 Peter was Managing Director setting up the impact investing multi family office 4L Capital AG and Investment Director at the single family office 4L Vision GmbH.
Until 2018 Peter Brock was Executive Director and Leader Family Office Services in EMEIA/GSA at EY (Ernst & Young). Since over 25 years he works in Investment Banking / SME Corporate Finance transactions and in Private Banking initially at Deloitte and the WestLBGroup in London, then HSBC Trinkaus and Sal. Oppenheim, prior to EY.
Dr Birgit Bujard is a political scientist and Executive Manager of the Institute for Political Science and European Affairs at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on British politics and EU-UK relations.
She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Turkey and European Union studies (CETEUS) and member of the Team Europe Direct, the speakers pool of the European Commission.
Since 2018 she is Deputy Chair of the Young Königswinter Alumni Association (YKWA e.V.). She attended the Young Königswinter Conference in 2011.
Neelam Cartmell, a British national, was born and raised in Germany before moving to the UK for the remainder of her late teens and early twenties. Over the past 20 years, she has worked in London, Paris, and Brussels and is now back in Berlin to help launch a new venture by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her expertise spans politics, government affairs, communications, and sales.
Passionate about maintaining her connection to Germany and her native language, Neelam has founded and led German Language and Culture Clubs at her workplaces, such as the Bank of England and Politico Europe. Outside of work, she enjoys dancing, traveling, organizing, personal finance, politics, and spending time with family and friends.
John Kampfner has had a long career in public life spanning global affairs, politics and culture. He is the author of seven books and is working on his eighth.
He began his journalistic career with the Telegraph, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Wall and German unification, then in Moscow during the collapse of Soviet Communism. He went on to work for the FT and BBC covering UK politics. As Editor of the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008, he took the magazine to 30-year circulation highs.
He writes regular columns for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico and Der Spiegel. He is a regular contributor on broadcast media. He has a weekly Substack column, in which he analyses the state of Germany and the world.
His most recent book, ‘In Search of Berlin’, was published in 2023. He has made many programmes for BBC TV and radio, including a two-parter called ‘The Ugly War’ on the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2002, for which he was awarded Film of the Year and Journalist of the Year.
He is a Board member of the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. In 2021, he set up the UK in the World programme at Chatham House, becoming its first director. He ran the free expression organisation, Index on Censorship, between 2008 and 2011; he subsequently advised Google on these issues. He was on the Council of King’s College London between 2012 and 2015 and Chair of the Clore Social Leadership programme from 2015 to 2018.
For eight years, from 2008 to 2016, he was founder Chair of Turner Contemporary, establishing one of the UK’s most successful art galleries. He was the founder of the Creative Industries Federation. He is now Chair of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London.
Mari Mittelhaus is the Executive Director and a board member of the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft e.V. (DBG), where she has worked since 2018. The DBG is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental and politically independent registered association. Its aim is to promote German-British relations in all areas of public and cultural interest.
Mari is responsible for organising the DBG’s four Königswinter Conferences, as well as a public lecture programme, administering the membership base and the network of German-British Associations in Germany. As a graduate of Humboldt University’s Master in British Studies, fostering German-British relations has been important for her for a long time. Having lived in the UK and the US, building bridges between societies through exchange and culture is both a professional and a personal passion of hers. Mari has an interdisciplinary background in business, event management and English politics, law, literature and culture.
She has organised the Young Königswinter Conference for 8 years and also sits on the board of the Young Königswinter Alumni Organisation.
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