Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is composed of high-ranking cultural, business, scientific and media personalities
Dr. Josef Ackermann (Chairman)
Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee,
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt a. M.
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt a. M.
Prof. Dr. Xiangming Chen
Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago and Fudan University, Shanghai
Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten
Chairman of the Foundation Board, Charité Foundation, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Peter Gomez
Chair of the Institute of Management (IfB), University of St. Gallen and Chairman of SIX (Swiss Infrastructure & Exchange) Group, Zurich
Dr. Heather Grabbe
Director, Open Society Institute, Brussels
Dr. Tessen von Heydebreck
Chairman, Deutsche Bank Foundation, Berlin
Jürgen Jeske
Former Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt a. M.
Prof. Dr. Sergej A. Karaganov
Chairman, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Moscow
Prof. Dr. Charles A. Kupchan
Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University, Washington DC
H. E. Ambassador Thomas Matussek
German Ambassador to India, New Delhi
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek
President, Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres, Berlin
Enrique Norten
Principal of TEN Arquitectos, New York and Mexico City, and Practice Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Bruce M. Ramer
Attorney, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Los Angeles
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild
President and CEO, ELR Holdings LLC, London
Dr. Stephan Sattler
Editor at Large, Hubert Burda Media, Munich
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz
CEO Sony Music Entertainment, New York
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert
Research Professorship, “New Modes of Governance”, Social Science Research Center Berlin and Professor, Public Administration, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Haig Simonian
Chief Correspondent, The Financial Times, Zurich
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwöbel
Professor of Systematic Theology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
Prof. Sebastian Turner
Partner Scholz&Friends Group, Berlin
America Vera-Zavala
Author, Stockholm
Lord George Weidenfeld
Chairman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
