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Marc S. Ellenbogen (born 6 February 1963 in Heidelberg) is an American businessman, diplomat and philanthropist, who is Chairman of the Global Panel Foundation and President of the Prague Society.
Ellenbogen has spent nearly two decades seeking justice against former Communist officials and members of the Communist-era secret police. He is known for his efforts to fight against corruption in Central and Eastern Europe. A respected Ambassador once described Ellenbogen as "something akin to an anti-Communist Bounty Hunter."
He is a Member of the Board of Directors or the CERGE-EI Foundation (New York, USA), a Senior Associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School (Syracuse, USA), and a Associate Fellow and Professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (Windsor, Canada).
He is a Member of the Board of the American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFoCR), founded to bring the Czech Republic into NATO, and serves as Adviser to, and Honorary Member of, the Oxford University European Affairs Society. He is a Patron of the right-of-center Henry Jackson Society and member of the German Foreign Press Association (Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland).
As a student, Ellenbogen served as student government comptroller and speaker, as student representative on the Board of Trustees, and as president of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
He was a internationally syndicated columnist for United Press International (2004-2010); some 300 hard-hitting columns appeared in publications such as The Washington Times, The Globe and Mail, The Financial Times and German newspaper Die Welt. As a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Entrepreneurial Finance, Pepperdine University, (Malibu, USA), Mr. Ellenbogen collaborated on many publications and articles.
From 2004-2010 Ellenbogen served on of the National Advisory Board of the US Democratic Party. He is a former Vice Chair & Founding Trustee of the Democratic Expat Leadership Council.
In 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Ellenbogen to be Ambassador to Bulgaria.