Program - Dräger-Stiftung

Day conference on Oct. 28, 2010
Opening address
Dinner Speech
Philip D. Murphy, US Ambassador to Germany
In August 2009 the US Senate confirmed Philip D. Murphy as the US Ambassador to Germany. From 1993 to 1997, Murphy headed the Frankfurt
office of Goldman Sachs in Germany, overseeing all of the investment bank’s activities in central Europe. Following his long career at Goldman
Sachs, Murphy served from 2006 to 2009 as national finance chair of the Democratic National Committee. After leaving this position, he became
a principal of Murphy Endeavors, LLC. He has also been co-chair of a task force at the Center for American Progress and the Institute for
America’s Future. Murphy graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in economics and received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Member of the Governing Council of the ECB
Axel Weber has served as the president of the German Central Bank since 2004, which includes oversight in the areas of communication,
economy and research as well as responsibilities on the Bank’s Advisory Board, Board of Directors and a governor position with the International
Monetary Fund. Weber has held professorial positions in the areas of international economics and financial studies and has been a visiting fellow
at several institutions, including the IMF and Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Since 1990, Weber has been a research fellow at the
Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.
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