Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is an important instrument for communicating with the public. The trustees are influential members of German society from a variety of different backgrounds, such as politics, economy, science and media. They meet once a year to review the latest information on developments at the institute and the Max Planck Society in general. The trustees provide the institutes with advice in social and science-political issues. The President of the Max Planck Society appoints the members of the Board of Trustees.
The members of the Board of Trustees are:
Melanie Bernstein
Member of the German Parliament
Götz Bormann
Chairman
Board Förde Sparkasse
Delara Burkhardt
MEPs
Björn Demmin
District Administrator
District of Plön
Prof. Dr Ralf-Udo Ehlers
Former shareholder
e-nema GmbH
Prof. Dr Simone Fulda
President
Kiel University
Prof. Dr Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach
President
University of Lübeck
Peter Höver
Journalist and former government spokesman
Schleswig-Holstein
Dr Kristian Klinck
Member of the German Parliament
Tanja Köhler
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Kieler Zeitung Verlags- und Druckerei KG-GmbH & Co.
Dr Ralf Neumann
Editor-in-Chief
Laborjournal
Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Orlemann
Managing Director
Kiel Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Mira Radünzel-Schneider
Mayoress
City of Plön
Prof. Dr Ulrich Schaible
Centre Director
Research Centre Borstel
Birgit Schulz
Head of Plön Section
Schleswig-Holstein University Society
Prof. Dr Ulrich Sommer
Emeritus Professor of Biological Oceanography
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Guido Wendt
State Secretary
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Culture