Our Work:

Boards

BICC Board of Trustees

• State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia (external link), Chair: Anette Baron, Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research, State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia (external link), Düsseldorf.
• State Government of Brandenburg (external link)

BICC Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board gives advice to BICC's board of Trustees and supervises the Board of Directors. The Supervisory Board is made up from representives of the Board of Trustees, all being public figures from politics, economy, science and/or public authorities.

• Chair: Helmut Dockter
  State Secretary of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research (external link), State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dr. Lale Akgün
  Premier’s Department of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia (external link), Düsseldorf

• Prof. Dr. Armin B. Cremers
  Deputy Rector, The University of Bonn (external link)
• Michael Deitmer
  Ministry of Economics, Energy, Building, Living and Traffic (external link), State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Franz Meiers
  NRW.URBAN GmbH & Co. KG (external link)
• Dirk Reitemeier
  Ministry of Economic and European Affairs (external link), State Government of Brandenburg
• Helmut Rubin
  Ministry of Finance (external link), State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia

International Board

The International Board shall advise BICC and its director on matters of research and policy; it is in particular asked to make suggestions concerning the annual work program and to comment on the publications. The members shall be appointed for a period of three years by the Board of Trustees (Gesellschafterversammlung). They shall serve in an honorary capacity and receive reimbursement for their expenses. The members shall elect a chairperson and a deputy.

• Dr. Sverre Lodgaard (Chair)
  former Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway
• Dr. Hans Blix
  former Director of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO)
• Prof. Dr. Janos Bogardi
  Managing Director International Project Office of the Global Water System Project, Bonn, Germany
• Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala
  President, Pugwash Confereces on Science and World Affairs, Sri Lanka

• Dr. Monika Hauser
  Founder and Managing Director of medica mondiale e.V., Cologne, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz
  Professor of Political Science, Institute of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn, Germany
  From October 2011 to May /June 2012: DAAD Visiting Chair for German and European Studies CERES, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
• Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat
  Executive Director, Africa Peace Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
• Dr. Carlos Lopes
  Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland

• Dr. Ulla Mikota
  Director Development, ISAF-Regional Command North and German Representative Development in Afghanistan, GIZ Mazar e Sharif, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan

• Herbert Salber
  Director-General for Security Policy, German Federal Foreign Office Berlin, Germany
• Dr. Dan Smith
  Secretary General, International Alert, London, United Kingdom
• Dr. Michael Stückradt
  Former Deputy Minister for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology, Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology (now Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research), State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Ambassador Dr. Theodor Winkler
  Director, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Geneva, Switzerland