BICC Board of Trustees
- State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Chair: Anette Baron, Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
BICC Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board gives advice to BICC's Board of Trustees and supervises the Director. The Supervisory Board is made up of representatives of Trustees, all being public figures from politics, economy, science and/or public authorities.
- Chair: Thorsten Menne
Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Dr Barbara Basten
Ministry of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Winfried Mengelkamp
State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia - Dr. Bernhard Santel
Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia - Professor Dr Stefan Talmon
University of Bonn - Ingrid Arenz
Chief Administrative Officer
Engagement Global gGmbH - Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen (Service for Development Initiatives)
International Board
The International Board advises BICC and its director on matters of research and policy. In its capacity, it makes suggestions concerning the annual work program and comments on the publications.
The members are appointed for a period of three years by the Board of Trustees (Gesellschafterversammlung). They serve in an honorary position.
- Chair: Dr Jocelyn Mawdsley
Senior Lecturer in European Politics, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK - Ambassador Susanne Baumann
Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms
Control; Director-General for International Order, the United Nations
and Arms Control of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany - Professor Dr Kristian Berg Harpviken
Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway - Professor Dr Elizabeth Ferris
Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA - Professor Dr Laurent Goetschel
Professor for Political Sciences, Department for Social Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
Director, swisspeace, Bern, Switzerland - Professor Angela Kane
(Former UN Under-Secretary-General)
Director of the Advisory Board, Dialogue Advisory Group, Netherlands
Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Austria - Adolf Kloke-Lesch
Executive Director of SDSN Germany (Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany) at the German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany - Professor Dr Teresa Koloma Beck
Professor of Sociology, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany - Simon Yazgi
Senior Mediation Advisor in the Mediation Standby Team of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA), Geneva, Switzerland
