The German Board of Trustees

Rainer Neske, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Rainer Neske, Chairman of the Board of Trustees


Board of Trustees (2010 - 2013)



Rainer Neske,
Deutsche Bank, Chairman of the Board of Trustees


Tessen von Heydebreck, Chairman of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, Honory Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Helmut Schäfer, former State Minister, foreign office
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Thomas Bellut, Director-General, ZDF

Erik Bettermann, Director-General, Deutsche Welle

Martin Blessing, CEO, Commerzbank AG

Maria Böhmer, Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU

Tom Buhrow, Anchorman, ARD

Sabine Christiansen, Journalist, TV21 Media

Mathias Döpfner, CEO, Axel-Springer AG

Thomas Ellerbeck, Chairman, Vodafone Foundation

Leonhard F. Fischer, Co-Chief Executive Officer, RHJI Swiss Management

Rüdiger Frohn, Chairman, Mercator gGmbH Foundation

Emilio Galli-Zugaro, Head Group Communications, Allianz Group

Luc Jochimsen, Member of Parliament, DIE LINKE

Michael Georg Link, Member of Parliament, FPD

Kerstin Müller, former State Minister, Member of Parliament, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Journalist

Dagmar Reim, Director-General, RBB

Monika Schaller, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs AG

Steffen Seibert, Parlamentary state secretary, Government Spokesperson

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Member of Parliament, SPD

Tobias Trevisan, CEO, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH


Internationaler Beirat:

Reinhard Bettzuege, former German Ambassador to Belgium

Lord George Weidenfeld, former CEO, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing, London; Member of House of Lords

Rob Meines, Meines & Partner, Den Haag