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Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees lays down the guidelines, key areas of activity, and general concepts for the Foundation's work. It approves the annual work programme, appoints the Executive Committee and ensures that it operates in line with the Foundation's objectives. It approves the budget and ratifies the actions of the Executive Committee.

Chairman

Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia

Deputy Chairman

Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony, Dresden

Deputy Chairman

Governing Mayor of Berlin

Deputy Chairman

Minister-President of Brandenburg

Dr Dietmar Woidke

Additional Members of the Board of Trustees

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin

Niels Annen

State Secretary (ret.), Radebeul 

Stéphane Beemelmans

Member of the Budget and Finance Committee in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf  

Dr Hartmut Beucker MdL

Member of the Committee for Homeland, Municipalities, Building and Housing of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf

Guido Déus MdL

Mayor of the Federal City of Bonn

Katja Dörner

Head of Research & Publications at the Munich Security Conference, Berlin 

Dr Sophie Eisentraut

Member of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf

Stefan Engstfeld MdL

Chair of the Committee for Europe and Development of the Parliament of the State of Brandenburg, Potsdam

Bettina Fortunato MdL

President of the Potsdam Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Potsdam 

Ina Hänsel

Deputy Head of the Department for European Affairs Ministry of Finance and for Europe of the State of Brandenburg

Dr Irene Heuser

Head of the Economic Policy and Regulatory Framework Division at the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises, State of Berlin

Dr Anna Hochreuter

President of  the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin

Prof Dr Hartmut Ihne

Member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development,
German Bundestag, Berlin

Volkmar Klein MP

Director of the GIZ-Representation Berlin

Randa Kourieh-Ranarivelo

Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs, Media and Head of the State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Director of Studies, Democratic Culture and Church, The Protestant Academy Berlin

Heinz-Joachim Lohmann

Executive Director
AGIAMONDO e.V., Cologne

Dr Claudia Lücking-Michel

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board
Liz Mohn Foundation, Gütersloh

Former Member of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf

Thomas Nückel

Director General (ret.), Berlin 

Dr Stefan Oswald

Head of Events, Deutsche Welle (DW), Bonn

Benjamin Pargan

2nd Spokesperson, VENROB - The Brandenburg Association of NGOs involved in Development Policy, Potsdam

Uwe Prüfer

Consultancy in Development Finance, foundation manager at BANK IM BISTUM ESSEN eG, lawyer

Michael P. Sommer

Mayor of the city of Görlitz

Executive Director
EPIZ Berlin (The Berlin Development Education and Information Center)

Elke Weißer

Chair of the Committee on Petitions of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf

Serdar Yüksel MdL
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