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
Additional Members of the Board of Trustees
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin
Head of the District Authority of Potsdam-Mittelmark
Former Head of Division, Bonn
Social entrepreneur
Co-founder of betterplace.org, Berlin
Member of the Committee for Homeland, Municipalities, Building and Housing of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf
Member of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf
Chair of the Committee for Europe and Development of the Parliament of the State of Brandenburg, Potsdam
CEO of the Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin
Deputy Head of the Department for European Affairs Ministry of Finance and for Europe of the State of Brandenburg
Head of the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises of the State of Berlin
Former Mayor of the city of Altena
Honorary Professor for Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn
Member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development,
German Bundestag, Berlin
Deputy Director-General,
Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, European Commission, Brussels
Director of the GIZ-Representation Berlin
Ambassador to Russia, Moscow
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
Executive Director
AGIAMONDO e.V., Cologne
Former Member of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf
Analyst/Historian Strategic Issues/International Relations at the Military Academy (MILAK) at ETH Zurich
2nd Spokesperson, VENROB - The Brandenburg Association of NGOs involved in Development Policy, Potsdam
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
German Bundestag, Berlin
Consultancy in Development Finance, foundation manager at BANK IM BISTUM ESSEN eG, lawyer
Head of Conference Programme
Deutsche Welle, Bonn
Former Mayor of the Federal City of Bonn
Mayor of the city of Görlitz
Executive Director
EPIZ Berlin (The Berlin Development Education and Information Center)
Former Minister of State, Euskirchen
Chair of the Committee on Petitions of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf
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