Sandra Breka
Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation Group
Open Society Foundations
About
Sandra Breka is Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation Group at Open Society Foundations. Previously she was a member of the Board of Management of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, one of the major charitable foundations in Europe. There, she spearheaded the foundation's strategic realignment. Her portfolio included the foundation's work on Global Issues with a focus on Climate Change, Democracy, Immigration Society, Inequality, Migration, and Peace as well as Strategic Partnerships and the Robert Bosch Academy. Before joining the foundation in 2001, Sandra served as Program Director at the Aspen Institute Berlin after an assignment with the American Council on Germany in New York.
After studies in Germany, France, and the United States, she obtained her M.A. at Columbia University. Sandra is a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the European Endowment for Democracy. She serves on the Munich Security Conference Board of Trustees, the Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and the Executive Committee of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung and the European Foundation Center Governing Council.