Heike MacKerron is Senior Director for Europe of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and is responsible for the management of GMF’s offices in Berlin, Bratislava, Paris, Brussels, Belgrade, and Ankara.  Additionally, she works closely with GMF’s president and vice president on overall strategic development for the organization.  Ms. MacKerron first joined GMF in 1993 as a program officer responsible for research support programs for German academics and the study tour program for grantees in East Germany.  More recently, she served as director of the Berlin office and as program officer for the Immigration and Integration program.  Before coming to GMF, Ms. MacKerron worked as a marketing specialist for the European office of Nichiman Company and the Western German State Bank in Düsseldorf, and she was office manager of the European office of YouOne Construction Company.  She is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations and the New Traditions Network of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.  She is also an advisory board member of the Council on Public Policy in Bayreuth, the USable project of the Körber Foundation in Hamburg, and Partner für Berlin.

Education:
Ms. MacKerron received an M.A. in American studies, sociology, and journalism from the Free University of Berlin and simultaneously worked as a researcher for a German Science Foundation project on educational and political challenges of integration of Turkish school children in Berlin.

Languages:
She speaks fluent English and French in addition to her native German.