Our committees: overview of the various bodies and their roles

Executive board

The executive board represents the Fraunhofer Future Foundation and conducts ongoing business and administration in keeping with the guidelines and resolutions adopted by the board of trustees.

Prof. Hans-Jörg Bullinger

Chair of the executive board

Prof. Hans-Jörg Bullinger is the former president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and has chaired the executive board...

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Prof. Dieter Prätzel-Wolters

Deputy chair

As the head of the first Fraunhofer institute in Germany to focus on mathematics, Prof. Dieter Prätzel-Wolters was instrumental...

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Dr. Sandra Krey

Member of the executive board (finances)

Dr. Sandra Krey has been the member of the executive board of the Fraunhofer Future Foundation responsible for finances since November 2022. She studied business administration at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where...

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Board of trustees

The board of trustees makes decisions on all matters of fundamental or particular importance and advises, supports, and supervises the executive board in carrying out its duties.

Ex officio members

Prof. Holger Hanselka

President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Prof. Michael Kaschke

President of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft

Hildegard Müller

Chair of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Prof. Andreas Tünnermann

Chair of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Ministerial Councilor Sabine Diehr

Head of the unit responsible for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Kerstin Radomski, Member of the German Bundestag

CDU/CSU Bundestag parliamentary group
Rapporteur for the BMBF department budget (Einzelplan 30) of the CDU/CSU budget committee, German Bundestag parliamentary group

Dr. Wiebke Esdar, Member of the German Bundestag

SPD Bundestag parliamentary group
Rapporteur for the BMBF department budget (Einzelplan 30) of the SPD budget committee, German Bundestag parliamentary group

Elected members

Prof. Albert Heuberger

Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS

Principles for action

Guiding Principles of Good Practice for Foundations

The foundation’s board of trustees and executive board endorse the Guiding Principles of Good Practice for Foundations adopted by the Association of German Foundations (Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen) as a voluntary code ...

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