Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Karl-Heinz Paqué
Chairman
State Minister (ret.), Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Deputy Chairwoman
Former MdB, former Federal Minister
Anne Brasseur
Former Minister for Education, Vocational Training and Sport of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Dr. Maren Jasper-Winter
Member of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Berlin House of Representatives
Florian Rentsch
Treasurer, former Minister of State, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Sparda-Banken e.V.
Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt
Honorary chairman (2018-2024)
Board of Trustees
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Theodor Heuss
Chairman of the Theodor Heuss Foundation
Head of Internal Medicine, Hospital Zollikerberg
Majority Shareholder Basler Schwabe-Verlag, Zürich, Switzerland
Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Deputy Chairman of the Programme Committee
Member of the Finance Committee
Liane Knüppel
Former President of the Association of Scholarship Holders and former Scholarship Holders of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Köngiswinter
Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
Member of the Finance Committee
Michael Georg Link
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Member of the Bundestag
Sarah Bäumchen
Member of the Management Board Association of the Electrical and Digital Industry (ZVEI)
Dr. h. c. Hinrich Enderlein
Former state minister, Entrepreneur, Kleinmachnow
Barbie Kornelia Haller
Vice-President of the Bundesnetzagentur
Dr. Peter Jeutter
Entrepreneur, Berlin
Member of the Programme Committee
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kolev
Scientific Director of the Ludwig Erhard Forum for Economy and Society Berlin, Professor of Economic Policy at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
Stefan Kapferer
Former State Secretary, Chairman of the Management Board of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Berlin
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff MdB
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation, former Vice-President of the European Parliament
Christian Lindner MdB
Former Federal Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Chairman of the Free Democrats
Dr. Anita Maaß
Mayor of the City Lommatzsch, Lommatzsch
Member of the Programme Committee
Dr. Ellen Madeker
Airbnb, Head of Public Policy DACH & Central and Eastern Europe
Gisela Piltz
Lawyer, Düsseldorf
Member of the Programme Committee
Judith Pirscher
Former State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Dr. Stefan Ruppert
Member of the Management at B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co KG, Melsungen; former MdB
Steffen Saebisch
Former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance Former Managing Director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Dr. Hermann Otto Solms MdB
Former Vice-President of the German Bundestag, Honorary Chairman of the Free Democrats and the parliamentary group of the Free Democrats in the German Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar
Professor of Economics at the University of Hamburg, Fellow of the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D. C., Hamburg
Chairman of the Programme Committee
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Former Federal Minister of Education and Research (BMBF); Chairwoman of the Free Democrats of Hesse
Joachim Werren
Former secretary of state, Hannover
Member of the Programme Committee
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Morlok
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees