Berkley Center

Dr. Roland Loeffler is the head of the Herbert Quandt Foundation’s “Trialog der Kulturen” program. Established in 1996, the program seeks to understand and advance intercultural dialogue between the three Abrahamic faiths. Since its inception, the program has supported a variety of projects in education, media, and interreligious cooperation. Under Loeffler’s direction, the Quandt Foundation’s Israel-Palestine scholarship program has successfully built bridges between Germany and the Middle East. In his book Protestants in Palestine (2008), he dealt with Protestant institutions in Palestine in the context of the cultural foreign policy of Germany and Britain during the interwar period. Loeffler studied theology and philosophy in Tubingen, Berlin, Cambridge, and Marburg and has also worked as a freelance journalist since 1997.