Supervisory Board

The GIZ Supervisory Board consists of ten shareholder representatives and ten representatives of the employees.

The shareholder is represented by five members of the German Federal Parliament (four members of the Budget Committee and one member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development) and four representatives of the German Government (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), as well as one representative of the German Foundation for International Development. The employees are represented by ten workforce representatives (three trade union representatives, one executive manager and six employees).

Shareholder representatives

Claudia Dörr-Voß
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Anja Hajduk
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Dr Friedrich Kitschelt (Chairperson)
State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Volkmar Klein
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Michael Leutert
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Walter J. Lindner
Secretary of State of the German Federal Foreign Office
Johannes Schmalzl
German Federal Ministry of Finance
Wolfram Schöhl
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the German Foundation for International Development (DSE)
Sonja Steffen
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Dagmar G. Wöhrl
Member of the German Federal Parliament

Employees’ representatives

Armin Hofmann
GIZ, Myanmar
Dr Stephan Krall (2nd Deputy Chairperson)
GIZ, Eschborn
Birgit Ladwig
Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Administrative Headquarters
Dr Sabine Müller
GIZ, Eschborn
Jens Neumann
GIZ, Eschborn
Mariella Regh
GIZ, Bonn
Thomas Schenk
Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Hessen
Paul Schlüter
GIZ, Bonn
Tobias Schürmann
Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Administrative Headquarters
Jan Wesseler (1st Deputy Chairperson)
GIZ, Ruanda