Joachim Maître

H. Joachim Maître has served in a variety of academic and journalism positions in North America, Europe, and Africa. He has been a lecturer for the University of Nigeria, a foreign correspondent and Editor for Die Welt, Chairman and Associate Professor of German at McGill University, the Editor of Die Welt des Buches, a Press and Olympic Attaché for the Olympic Games of 1976, and editor-in-chief of Die Welt am Sonntag, the Axel Springer Verlag, and the Ullstein Buchverlag. He is a specialist both in security affairs and in reporting on security affairs, and teaches in the College of Communication’s Department of Journalism as well as in the Department of International Relations.

Maître is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Philadelphia Society, the PEN American Center, and the Professional Ski Instructors of America.

Professor Maître is also a well-known journalist, particularly for his in-depth studies of current defense and political issues, and has served as senior editor for Axel Springer Publishing Company and managing director for Ullstein Publishing Company. Maître has been a national fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.