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
Member of the Committee for Homeland, Municipalities, Building and Housing 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
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
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
President of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin
Member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development,
German Bundestag, Berlin
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)
Chair of the Committee on Petitions of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf