Tony Silberfeld joined the Bertelsmann Foundation in April 2014. As director of the Transatlantic Relations program, he oversees media projects covering politics, economics and social challenges in the Euro-Atlantic sphere. In addition he has produced six documentary films on the nexus of technology and democracy around the world, including Italy, Mexico, Cuba, Latvia, India and the United Kingdom.

Tony joined the Foundation after seven years with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office where he was head of political and public affairs at the Northern Ireland bureau. Prior to his tenure at the embassy, Tony spent several years as a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. He also spent time in the private sector with the international team of Booz Allen Hamilton.