Deidre Berger

Deidre Berger has been the director of AJC's Berlin office and the Lawrence and Lee Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations since January 2000. In this position, Berger promotes transatlantic dialogue, Israel advocacy, anti-bias education and intergroup relations. She also handles Holocaust memory issues and German-Jewish relations. She works closely with German and European partners, including political foundations, government agencies, embassies, non-profit organizations, universities, and religious institutions. She supervises staff members and project coordinators who work on AJC delegation visits, conferences, round-table discussions and lectures. Berger also lectures in the U.S. and Europe on a wide variety of subjects including transatlantic affairs, European relations with Israel, anti-Semitism, the promotion of pluralism and democracy, and German-Jewish dialogue.

Prior to joining AJC in 1999, Berger was a journalist for more than 20 years, with the bulk of her career spent as a correspondent and producer for National Public Radio. She also reported for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Christian Science Monitor, Monitor Radio, Radio Netherlands, the Los Angeles Times and Israel's Maariv, among other news outlets.

Berger is an advisory board member of Bridge of Understanding, a Munich-based organization that promotes American-Jewish-German understanding through exchange programs and events. She also sits on the advisory board of Action Reconciliation/Service for Peace, a Berlin-based group founded in the 1950s that sends German youth volunteers to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation or with large numbers of Holocaust victims. She is a jury member of Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future, an educational foundation set up as part of the overall settlement on compensation for former slave and forced laborers

She earned her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. She also pursued graduate studies in art history at Washington University in St. Louis.