Current Members of the Board of Trustees

The members of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) are appointed by the Federal Government and by the Government of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The board is composed of staff members of federal and state government departments with a particular interest in the IDOS's activities and of representatives of public life. Its task is to supervise the Institute's work.

The Board of Trustees is composed of the following members:

Jochen Flasbarth (Chair)
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert (Deputy Chair)
State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Ambassador Alexander Baum
Adviser to the Deputy Secretary General for Global and Economic Issues on ACP and Post Cotonou negotiations at European External Action Service, Brussels
Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs
Professor Transregional Southeast Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin
Anka Feldhusen
Director for Crisis Prevention and Stabilisation at the Foreign Office
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote
Director, Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, University Hannover
Joachim Heidebrecht
Head of Department, KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Michael Hoch
Rector, University Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther
Director and Member of the Presidium, German Economic Institute, Cologne
Prof. Dr. Conrad Schetter
Director, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) gGmbH
Dr. Claudia Schmucker
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
Dr. Elke Siehl
GmbH German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH
Ludger Siemes
State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
Dr. Brigitte Schwadorf-Ruckdeschel
Head of Division Development Policy, Agricultural Policy, United Nations, UNCTAD
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Bonn