On June 11, 1999 the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. Board appointed a Board of Trustees. This body supports and accompanies the work of the KAS in a consultative capacity. One of its most important tasks is to analyse developments of relevance to society as a whole.
In times of great upheaval, constant transformation and ongoing processes of globalization, orientation is more important than ever. Revolutionary developments in science, technology, media and culture require us to respond in a timely far-sighted and trend-setting manner to the new political challenges the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung sets out to address.
The Board of Trustees comprises representatives from politics, society, science and culture.
In the composition of the Trustees Board, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has given importance to involving different parts of society. Our goal is to assure even stronger ties with ideas and proposals from science and society.
Members of the Board of Trustees
Klaus Mertes SJ
Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. Board of Trustees
Superior of the Jesuit Community in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Dr Petra Bahr
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Professor Dr Michael Baumann
Chairman and Scientific Director of the German Cancer Research Center
Lena Düpont MEP
Deputy Chairwoman of the CDU Lower Saxony
Professor Dr Heino Falcke
Professor of Astroparticle Physics and Radio Astronomy, Radboud-University Nijmegen
Cemile Giousouf
Vice-President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (retired)
Markus Hartmann
Senior Public Prosecutor at the Cologne General Public Prosecutor's Office
Head of North Rhine-Westphalian Central Cybercrime Department
Professor Dr Christoph Heusgen
German Ambassador (retired)
Chairman of the Munich Security Conference 2022-2025
Fellow of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2022
Professor Dr Markus Hilgert
President of the Berlin University of the Arts
Maria Kalesnikava
Belarusian Civil Rights Activist
Bernhard Kaster
Mayor (retired)
Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (retired)
Karin Knappe
Works Council Member of the Joint Establishment Fraport AG, FRA-Vorfeldkontrolle GmbH, and Fraport Ground Services GmbH
Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Fraport AG
Marija Kolak
President of the National Association of German Cooperative Banks
Member of the Vatican Council for the Economy
Anna Kreye
Head of the Minister’s Office at the Ministry of Interior and Sport of Saxony-Anhalt
Senator Ronan Le Gleut
Member of the French Senate
Egils Levits
President of Latvia (retired)
Judge at the European Court of Justice (retired)
Ahmad Mansour
Founder and Managing Director of the Mansour-Initiative for the Promotion of Democracy and Prevention of Extremism
Peter Müller
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (retired)
Minister-President (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Professor Dr Armin Nassehi
Vice-President of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Fellow of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2021
Dr Klaus Schüler
Federal Managing Director of the CDU of Germany (retired)
Dr Wolfgang Schüssel
Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (retired)
Chairman of the Board of Trustees 2015-2025
Professor Dr Daniela Schwarzer
Honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin
Dr Steven E. Sokol
President of the American Council on Germany
Jaromir Sokolowski
State Secretary in Poland (retired)
Polish Ambassador (retired)
Armin Staigis
Brigadier-General (retired)
Vice President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (retired)
Anna Staroselski
Vice President of the German-Israeli Society
Kim Thy Tong
Senior Advisor for Strategy Sustainability, and Environment at Deutsche Bahn
Member of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association Berlin Regional Executive Committee
Sir Peter James Torry
British Ambassador (retired)
Annette Widmann-Mauz
Minister of State (retired)
Lars Zimmermann
Co-founder and Board Member of GovTech Campus
Fellow of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2024
As of: 1 July 2026
