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), Bonn
• Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert (Deputy Chair)
  State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
• Ambassador Alexander Baum
  Adviser to the Deputy Secretary General for Global and Economic Issues at the European External Action Service, (Retired), 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
  Former Head of Department, KfW Development Bank, (Retired), Frankfurt am Main
• Prof. Dr. Michael Hoch
  Rector, University Bonn, Bonn
• Dr. Frank Hochapfel
  State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
• 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, Bonn
• Dr. Claudia Schmucker
  German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
• Dr. Elke Siehl
  GmbH German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn