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

State Secretary (ret.), Radebeul
Member of the Budget and Finance Committee in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Chairman of the Committee for Home and Local Affairs of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf

Mayor of the Federal City of Bonn

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

Chairman of the Committee for Europe and International Affairs of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf

Executive Director, Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin
President of the Potsdam Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Potsdam

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

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

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

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

Former Deputy Director-General, European Commission

Director of the GIZ-Representation Berlin

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

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board
Liz Mohn Foundation, Gütersloh

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

Director General (ret.), Berlin

Head of Events, Deutsche Welle (DW), Bonn

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

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

Mayor of the city of Görlitz

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

Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin