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
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Anja Hajduk
Member of the German Bundestag
Michael Hinterdobler
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the German Foundation for International Development (DSE)
Martin Jäger (Chairperson)
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Carsten Körber
Member of the German Bundestag
Christine Lambrecht, MdB
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Michael Leutert
Member of the German Bundestag
Walter J. Lindner
State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office
Dr Peter Ramsauer
Member of the German Bundestag
Sonja Steffen
Member of the German Bundestag

Employees’ representatives

Armin Hofmann
GIZ, Myanmar
Dr Stephan Krall (2nd Deputy Chairperson)
GIZ, Eschborn
Birgit Ladwig
Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di), Federal Administration
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