04/27/06

Heino A. P. Beckmann

Honorary Consul of Germany, Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Heino A. P. Beckmann holds a faculty appointment at the University of Saint Thomas,  Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Rome, Italy, where he has been teaching courses in corporate financial management and international finance since 1986.  He has been a visiting professor at universities in Germany, Canada, Taiwan, Greece, Belgium, Croatia and Uruguay.

Dr. Beckmann is also President of Stecher Associates, Financial Consultants.

Besides teaching and consulting, Dr. Beckmann serves the financial community in several capacities. He is a national Director of Financial Executives International (FEI), a professional association of chief financial officers, treasurers and controllers. Dr. Beckmann is a past President of FEI’s Minnesota chapter. He was a member of FEI’s Committee on Government Liaison, which regularly advised the U.S. Congress and the executive branch of government in Washington, D.C.  He is currently a member of FEI’s Global Oversight Committee. In 1992, Dr. Beckmann received FEI’s National Distinguished Service Award. He was the fourth recipient of the award in the then 61-year history of the organization.

Dr. Beckmann serves the international community as Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for the States of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, and Counties Pierce, Polk and St. Croix in the State of Wisconsin. He is also Vice President of the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Minnesota Chapter.

Dr. Beckmann holds graduate degrees in law (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany), international relations (University of Pennsylvania), political philosophy (University of Pennsylvania), and business management (University of Minnesota). He completed post-graduate course work in finance (The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania).

Previously, Dr. Beckmann had careers in research with the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in the military of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was the commander of an artillery regiment, deputy commander of an armored brigade, liaison staff officer with the German Military Representative at Washington, D.C., and he attended the Fuehrungsakademie (leadership academy for general staff officers) at Hamburg, Germany.