Wiebke Ahrndt (born 1963), ethnology / Meso-American studies in Goettingen and Bonn. Different study and research visits in Los Angeles and Mexico. In 1996, doctorate in Meso-American studies. From the end of 1999 until the beginning of 2002, head of American department at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel (Museum of Cultures). Since March 2002, director of the Übersee-Museum Bremen. October 2006, honorary professor in the faculty of Cultural Science at the University of Bremen. From 2011 until 2018 vice president of the Deutsche Museumsbund (German Museum Association), since 2022 president of the Deutsche Museumsbund.