Lena Altman

Lena Altman is Co-CEO of the Alfred Landecker Foundation

Lena Altman is Co-CEO of the Alfred Landecker Foundation. Together with Silke Mülherr, she leads the Foundation’s work to provide critical support for Holocaust survivors and to invest in programs on remembrance as well as the prevention and fight against antisemitism. This includes supporting memorial sites, museums, and civil society organizations, funding innovative research, advancing digital remembrance technologies, and building international partnerships with leading universities and research institutions across Europe, Israel, and the United States. Their work also encompasses the Foundation’s programs to stabilize democratic institutions at a time of democratic decline, including the establishment of the Adenauer School of Government at the University of Cologne and partnerships with the German Marshall Fund and the Munich Security Conference.

Lena brings many years of experience working at the intersection of academia, civil society, and public policy. Prior to joining the Alfred Landecker Foundation, she worked at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and held senior positions at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in New York and Berlin, most recently as Head of Public Affairs, where she built key transatlantic and Jewish-American networks. Her earlier career included roles with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste and the Foundation of German Business (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft).

She studied North American Studies at the University of Bonn and Jewish Literature at Mount Holyoke College (USA). She serves in a voluntary capacity on the board of Yad Vashem Germany, on the advisory board of the Friends of the Schlüchtern Synagogue, and on the academic advisory board of the Rachel Salamander Archive and Exhibition (Monacensia, Munich), and is actively involved in educational initiatives in Berlin. She lives with her family in Berlin.