Atlantic Storm was
organized by:

The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC

The Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University

The Transatlantic Biosecurity Network

Atlantic Storm was
sponsored by:

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The Nuclear Threat Initiative

Scenario Players

Werner Hoyer
As the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Werner Hoyer is a Member of the German Bundestag and a member of the German Liberal Party (Freien Demokratischen Partei, FDP). Since 2000 he has also been President of the European Liberal Democrats Party (ELDR). Dr. Hoyer was Minister of State in the German Foreign Office from 1994 to 1998. From 1993 to 1994, he was General Secretary of the FDP. He was also the FDP Chief whip for four years from 1989 to 1993 and party spokesman on security affairs in the Bundestag from 1990 to 1994.

Dr. Hoyer started his political career in the early 1980s as a member of the National Executive Board of the Young Liberals and Chairman of the FDP Cologne District Association. Since 1984 he has been a member of the Executive Board of the FDP state association in North-Rhine Westphalia. Dr. Hoyer is a Major of the German Air Force Reserve (GAF). He is Vice-President of the Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft and a lecturer in international economic relations at the University of Cologne.