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
Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt
Honorary chairman
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
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
Hon.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Haussmann
Former Federal Minister, Bad Urach
Member of the Finance Committee
Dr. Peter Jeutter
Entrepreneur, Berlin
Member of the Programme Committee
Stefan Kapferer
Former State Secretary, Chairman of the Management Board of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Berlin
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff MdB
Deputy Chairman of the Free Democrats' fraction at the German Bundestag
Former Deputy President of the European Parliament, Bonn
Christian Lindner MdB
Chairman of the Free Democrats' fraction at the German Bundestag
Federal Chairman of the Free Democrats, Berlin
Michael Georg Link
Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation of the Federal Government at the Federal Foreign Office
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
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Florian Rentsch
Minister of State (ret.), Chairman of the Management Board of the Association of Sparda Banks e.V., Wiesbaden
Chairman of the Finance Committee
Dr. Stefan Ruppert
Member of the Management at B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co KG, Melsungen; former MdB
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
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Federal Minister of Education and Research (BMBF); Chairwoman of the Free Democrats of Hesse
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
Joachim Werren
Former secretary of state, Hannover
Member of the Programme Committee
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Morlok
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees