Margarita Mathiopoulos

Margarita Mathiopoulos is the Chief Executive Officer EAG (European Advisory Group) GMBH GermanyDemocracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009. 
==Career History==
Since September 2006 Mathiopoulos has been the Founder and CEO of ASPIDE GMBH. Previously in February 2002 she was Professor of International Security Policy at the University of Potsdam and as Founder and Executive Director of the "Potsdam Center for Transatlantic Security and Military Affairs. In July 2001 she CO-founded and became CEO of EAG.
From 1998-2001 she was the Senior advisor to BAE Systems plc. Responsible for Strategic marketing-planning, new business and political-industrial co-operation in Europe. Between 2000-2001 She headed an International Commission reviewing the Greek Strategic Defense Requirements 2000-2015 by appointment of the Greek Minister of Defense 
Between 1992-1997 She acted as senior Vice President and Divisional Head of Marketing, Communications, and International Relations of Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover. In 1995 she was appointed as tenured Professor of US - Foreign Policy and International Politics at the University of Braunschweig.
She was between 1987-1992 Associate Director and member of the Board of Directors of the Aspen Institute Berlin and had Guest Professorships at the Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, and at the University of Hannover. Between 1985-1987 She was communications and Marketing Manager at IBM Germany, Stuttgart and prior to this between 1975-1980 she worked as a "journalist / moderator" at WDR-TV I/III, CologneEuropean Advisory Group, Margarita Mathiopoulos, Biography, Accessed 01-March-2009
==Views==
===On Israel===
Mathiopoulos is a strong defender of Israel describing its 2006 invasion of Lebanon in the International Herald Tribune as an 'inevitable reaction to Hezbollah's provocations' and bending over backwards to understand how 'Israel's response was both in character and by its lights, moderate'Margarita Mathiopoulos 'Lebanon and Israel - The war from where I stand' International Herald Tribune, 25 July 2006 In her piece she also repeats the well known propaganda claim of President Ahmedinejad of Iran's 'repeated calls for Israel's destruction'.Margarita Mathiopoulos 'Lebanon and Israel - The war from where I stand' International Herald Tribune, 25 July 2006 
==Affiliations==
Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009| EAG | BAe Systems | ASPIDE GMBH | Norddeutsche Landesbank | Aspen Institute Berlin | FDP-Transatlantic Forum | FDP | German-Atlantic-Association | American Chamber of Commerce | American Council on Germany | International Institute for Strategic Studies | Study Group on Strategic Issues of the German Association for Foreign Policy | European Academy of Sciences and Arts | International Advisory Board of the Instituto de Empresa | Advisory Board of the Philharmony of Nations | Dialogue of CulturesEuropean Advisory Group, Margarita Mathiopoulos, Biography, Accessed 01-March-2009
==Resources==
Margarita Mathiopoulos Who needs America? Come together, right now International Herald Tribune, 15 June 2007
==Notes==
 
Mathiopoulos, Margarita