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