Deidre Berger is Chair of the Executive Board of the Jewish Digital Recovery Project Foundation, a central data repository for archival material on cultural objects looted by National Socialists, their allies, and collaborators.  She formerly served as the longtime director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin Office / Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, also serving as Senior European Affairs Advisor for AJC Europe. 

Ms. Berger is Co-Founder and Partner of the Tikvah Institut gUG, a Berlin-based organization linking research and public policy to combat antisemitism and foster Jewish perspectives.  She is also Co-Founder and Deputy Board Chair of Forum Democracy e.V. in Berlin, a citizen´s initiative to stimulate intergenerational debates about challenges to democracy. She serves as Co-Chair of the managing boards of OlamAid e.V. (Berlin) and Masorti e.V. (Berlin). She also serves as a member of the managing board of the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim, Poland.

Additionally, Ms. Berger is Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Leo Trepp Foundation (Berlin), which focuses on education about Jewish life, and a member of the advisory boards of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace and House of the Wannsee Conference. She is a member of the foreign affair forums Atlantik-Brücke, the German Council on Foreign Relations, and Global Bridges. The German President’s Office awarded her in 2008 the German Federal Cross of Merit for her service in German-Jewish relations.

Prior to joining the AJC in 1999, Ms. Berger worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent, reporting on German and European affairs for National Public Radio, Deutsche Welle international broadcast network, and other print and broadcast media.  She speaks frequently on issues including transatlantic and Mideast relations, antisemitism and political extremism, Jewish life, Nazi-looted art, Holocaust memory and cultural affairs.