Ulrike Guerot, from the European Council on Foreign Relations and writing from Berlin, said "this will backfire on us terribly in two or three years' time".
Another German immigrant who has made significant contributions to the treatment of American cancer patients is Dr. Ulrike Peters, an assistant member of the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson who leads or co-leads several research programs.
In a 2009 study, Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA's Geoff Tate found that companies performed poorly after their leaders were voted "CEO of the Year, " because of the distractions that came with the fame, like writing a book and hobnobbing at Davos.