Markus Baumanns
Markus Baumanns is the Executive Vice President of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. He is responsible for the initiatives of the Foundation in the field of Science and Education and the projects in the United States and Asia. He is also Chairman of the Executive Board of Bucerius Law School. Between 1990 and 1995 he worked in the Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government and served as Diplomat at the German embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. In January 2000 he joined the ZEIT Foundation as Program Director for international programs, press and public relations, and from 2001 to 2006 he served as CEO and Provost of the largest project of the Foundation, the Bucerius Law School. It is the first and only private Law School in Germany, which began operating in October 2000 with a strong international focus. It currently has 620 Master and Bachelor Students and 17 fulltime Professors.
Baumanns is a frequent speaker in Germany and abroad on issues including renewable energies and climate change, the reform of German and European public higher education, the internationalization of the legal education situation of German foundations and philanthropy, as well as recent political and legal development in China. He has published numerous articles in newspapers, law journals, and books on the reform of higher education in Germany and on the internationalization of legal education in Germany. He obtained a Master's Degree in History, Political Science and Literature in 1990 and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cologne in 1994.
