Board of Trustees

Professor Gesine Schwan

(Chair) President, Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform

Leonard Benardo

Senior Vice President, Open Society Foundations

Professor Asher Cohen

President, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor Lorraine Daston

Director, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Professor Oliver Günther, Ph.D.

President, University of Potsdam

Professor Eckard Minx

former Director, DaimlerChrysler Society and Technology Research Group, Berlin

Professor Michael Naumann

Director, Barenboim-Said Academy; former Minister of State for Culture

Professor Miriam Rürup

Director, Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum at the University of Potsdam

Dr. Manja Schüle

Minister of Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg

Professor Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

Professor Günter Stock

former Chair, Executive Board, Einstein Foundation Berlin

Karsten D. Voigt

Former Coordinator of German–American Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office