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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand
Lecturer and Tutor
College of International and Security Studies

Commander Hildenbrand is a lecturer at the George C. Marshall Center, College of International Security Studies. In 2006 and 2007 he was the Deputy Director of the Program in Advanced Security Studies, the College’s largest and most comprehensive resident program. His main focus of professional experience is the European Security and Defense Policy and modern leadership. He is a member of the Regional Stability in the Greater Black Sea Area Working Group of the PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

From 2002 to 2004 Commander Hildenbrand was a senior officer in the Joint Forces Staff, German Ministry of Defense in Bonn. In this position he was responsible for preparing Franco-German summits and he participated in meetings of the WEU and other international organizations in various capacities, to include serving as the secretary of a multinational working group for the restructuring of the European defense industries. This involved different tasks in Spain, Sweden, Italy, France and Great Britain.

Between 2000 and 2002 he was Battalion Commander at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich, where as part of his job he lectured on modern leadership.

Between 1997 and 2000 Commander Hildenbrand was the Executive Officer to the Deputy Chief of Staff at NATO Headquarters Allied Forces Northwestern Europe in High Wycombe, Great Britain. His responsibilities included the representation of this Headquarter in different working groups for restructuring NATO.

Between 1979 and 1997 Commander Hildenbrand pursued a career as a naval aviator. He studied aeronautical engineering at the University of the Armed Forces and achieved his diploma (master’s) as Diplom-Ingenieur. Furthermore, he underwent training as an Aviator in the Navy of the United States of America. In addition to a five year flying career with approximately 1000 flying hours, he was the representative of the German Navy in designing the NATO Helicopter of the Ninetieth (NH90). This responsibility required mainly working in France and Italy.

Last updated: June 9, 2008