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 Bavarian State Chancellery. The employees are represented by ten workforce representatives (three trade union representatives, one executive manager and six employees).

Shareholder representatives

• Martin Jäger (Chairperson)
• Claudia Dörr-Voß
  State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
• Anja Hajduk
  Member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin
• Michael Hinterdobler
  Representative of the Bavarian State Chancellery, Munich
• Carsten Körber
  Member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin
• Antje Leendertse
  State Secretary at the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
• Michael Leutert
  Director of the UNDP Representative Office, Bonn
• Dr Peter Ramsauer
  Member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin
• Wolfgang Schmidt
  State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
• Sonja Steffen
  Member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin

Employees’ representatives

• Dr. Wibke Thies (1st Deputy Chairperson)
  GIZ, Eschborn
• Katrin Gothmann (2nd Deputy Chairperson)
  GIZ, Ecuador
• Christiane Einfeldt
  GIZ, Sri Lanka
• Armin Hofmann
  GIZ, Ukraine / Substitute member: Martina Agrell, GIZ, Eschborn
• Birgit Ladwig
  Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Administrative Headquarters, Berlin
• Dr Joachim Langbein
  GIZ, Bonn
• Stefan Mager
  GIZ, Kosovo
• Dr Sabine Müller
  GIZ, Eschborn / Substitute member: Robert Kressirer, GIZ, Eschborn
• Thomas Schenk
  Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Frankfurt am Main
• Tobias Schürmann
  Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Administrative Headquarters