Executive Board
The Executive Board is the public face of the Academy and is responsible for its strategic management. A maximum of 12 Executive Board members are elected from the General Assembly and up to 6 are elected from the Senate. acatech’s Managing Director is also on the Executive Board.
Members of the acatech Executive Board’s management committee are denoted with “(M)”.
Prof. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner (M)
acatech Vice President, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Chair of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Technical University of Munich
- Member of the Supervisory Board of UnternehmerTUM GmbH
- Member of the Board of Directors of Lazard Ltd
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Contemporary Studies (AICGS), John Hopkins University
- Member of the Advisory Board of Luxembourg Investment S.a.r.l. (Techem GmbH)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Lakestar
- Member of the Bayerische Ethikkommission
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Verantwortungseigentum
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Dieter Schwarz Stiftung gGmbH
- Member of the Board of Directors of Linde plc
- Member of the International Advisory Board of Investcorp
- Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the ifo Institute
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Munich RE
- Member of the German Group of the Trilateral Commission
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Johannes B. Ortner-Stiftung
Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Professor of Systematic Theology (Ethics) at the Department of Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Former Chair of the German Ethics Council (2016–2020)
- Co-Editor of Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik
Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC)
- Chair of Security in Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Bundesdruckerei, Berlin
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG
- Member of the Supervisory Board of BWI GmbH
- Member of Plattform Industrie 4.0, Working Group 3: Security, and Member of the Board of Academic Advisors of Plattform Industrie 4.0
- Member of Plattform Lernende Systeme, Working Group: IT Security, Privacy, Legal and Ethical Framework
- Member of National Platform Future of Mobility, Working Group 3: Digitalisation for the Mobility Sector
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Forschungsforum Öffentliche Sicherheit (FU Berlin)
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of Competence Center Technology-Diversity-Equal Opportunities e.V. (kompetenzz)
- Member of the Academic Advisory Council of Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)
- Recipient of award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: “Deutschlands Digitale Köpfe 2014”
- Chair of the IT Security platform of Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B)
- Member of the Board of Münchner Kreis
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Metrology Institute (PTB)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation (DCSO)
- Member of the Computer Science Review Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Member of the Kassel University Council
- Member of the Working Group of the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) tasked with preparing Perspektiven der Informatik in Deutschland
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Nationale Cyber-Sicherheitsrat
- Member of the Project Advisory Board of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (BIDT)
- Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft für Forschungstransfer (GFFT)
- Member of the Wise Council of the Cyber Security Cluster, Bonn
- Scientific Director with responsibility for developing the cybersecurity research roadmap for the SPARTA project (one of four pilot projects focused on establishing a European cybersecurity network)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation
- Deputy Chair of Security Network Munich (SNM)
- Member of the Bavarian AI Council
Prof. Dr. Ursula Gather (M)
acatech Vice President, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
- Member of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Munich RE
- Chair of the University Council of the Christian-Albrecht Universität zu Kiel
- External ad-personam member of the Senate of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – German National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Advisory Board of NRW.BANK
Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Head of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB)
- Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Chair of the Zukunftskreis at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Co-Chair of the National Citizens’ Oversight Committee Endlager
- Member of the German Ethics Council
- Member of Plattform Lernende Systeme, Working Group: Law and Ethics
- Member of the International Science Council’s (ISC) Commission for Science Planning (CSP)
- Co-Editor of Journal of Responsible Innovation
Torsten Jeworrek
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Non-Executive Director of Renaissance Re, Bermuda
- Member of the Quantum Council of IQM, Helsinki
Prof. Dr. Christoph Leyens
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Chair of Materials Technology and Director of the Institute of Materials Science, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Dresden
- Institute Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS), Dresden
- Adjunct Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia
- Adjunct Professor at University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- Visiting Fellow at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology
- Member of Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Lasertechnik und Photonik e.V. (WLT)
- Member of the German Materials Society (DGM)
- Member of the Board of DRESDEN-concept e.V.
- Chair of the Board of AGENT-3D e.V.
Dr. Stefan Oschmann (M)
acatech Vice-President, acatech Senator, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Chair of the Board of UCB S.A.
- Chair of the Board of AiCuris Anti-infective Cures AG
- Member of the Board of Springer Nature
- Member of the Foundation Council of Schörghuber KG
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Malteser Deutschland
Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel
acatech Executive Board member, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Professor of Economics, with a particular focus on energy, climate and exhaustible natural resources, Faculty of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich
- Director of the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources
- Co-Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
- Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee of Wissenschaftsplattform Klimaschutz
- Deputy Chair of the Directorate of Energy Systems of the Future, a project conducted by the German academies of science
- Member of the Board of Directors of TÜV Süd e.V.
- Member of the Bayerischer Klimarat
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsches Museum, Munich
- Member of the Academic Board, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz
- CESifo Research Fellow
Manfred Rauhmeier (M)
acatech Managing Director
Other offices and mandates
- Managing Director and Member of the Management Board of the Friends Association of the National Academy of Science and Engineering
- Member of the Foundation Council of the acatech Foundation
- Founding Managing Director of Mobility Data Space
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations
Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Scientific Director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam
- Shareholder, Managing Director and Scientific Director of DIALOGIK gGmbH (https://www.dialogik-expert.de/en)
- Adjunct Professor of Integrated Risk Research at the University of Stavanger, Norway
- Affiliate Professor of Risk Governance at Beijing Normal University (inactive since 2018)
- Ordinarius of Sociology of Technology, Risk and Environment at the University of Stuttgart (on leave of absence since 2016)
- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – German National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Member of the National Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China
- Chair of the Sustainability Council of Brandenburg
- Head of Brandenburg Sustainability Platform
- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Government’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change
- President of the European Virtual Risk Institute, Stuttgart
- President of the GAIA Association (and Co-Editor of the journal of the same name)
- Member of the FONA committee of experts for socio-ecological research
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Technische Universität Berlin
- Chair of the Selection Committee for the Norddeutscher Wissenschaftspreis
- Chair of the Sociopolitical Advisory Board for High-Performance Computing & Simulation at the University of Stuttgart
- Member of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Hans Böckler Foundation
- Member of the Foundation Board of the International Risk Governance Council, ETH Lausanne
- Member of the Kommission für gesellschaftliche und soziale Fragen der Bischofskonferenz, Working Group: Ecological Issues
- Member of the Sustainability Council of Porsche AG
- Working Group: Societal Resilience and Climate Extremes (Future Earth)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Robert Bosch Stiftung – Research for Sustainability
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the nexus Institute
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Einstein Foundation
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Science and Ethics
- Member of the Advisory Board for Resilience Research at the Risk Dialogue Foundation (Zurich)
Prof. Dr. Hermann Requardt
acatech member, acatech Senator
Other offices and mandates
- Member of the Board of Directors of Bruker Corp AG (USA)
- Member of the Board of Directors of BGrimm Ltd (Thailand)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Dekra e.V.
- Shareholder of Hummingbird GmbH
- Chair of Lebenshilfe Erlangen (foundation)
- Chair of the Supervisory Board of Sivantos Deutschland GmbH
Frank Riemensperger
acatech member, acatech Senator
Other offices and mandates
- Managing Director of 440.digital GmbH, Frankfurt
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG, Göttingen
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Mobility Data Space, Munich
- Member of the Steering Committee of Plattform Lernende Systeme
- Member of Feldafinger Kreis
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Russwurm
acatech member, acatech Senator
Other offices and mandates
- President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
- Member of the Management Board of the Friends Association of the National Academy of Science and Engineering
- Member of the Executive Board of the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leipziger Stiftung für Innovation und Technologietransfer
- Chair of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG
- Chair of the Shareholders’ Committee and Supervisory Board of Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
Prof. Dr. Michael Schenk
acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Member of the Board of Otto-von-Guericke-Stiftung
Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland
acatech Executive Board member, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Professor of Medical Technologies and Regenerative Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tübingen
- Director and Managing Foundation Chair of the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI), Reutlingen
- Managing Director of NMI-Technologie Transfer GmbH (NMI-TT GmbH)
- Founding Director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Tübingen, and of the 3R Center Tübingen/Reutlingen
- Dean of Studies for Medical Technology (B.Sc.) and Biomedical Technologies (M.Sc.)
- Deputy Chair of the Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research (ZES)
- Deputy Chair of the Innovationsallianz Baden-Württemberg (innBW)
- Spokesperson for the Ministry for Economic Affairs in the Forum Gesundheitsstandort Baden-Württemberg
- International Fellow of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM)
- Member of the Board of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) – European Chapter Continental Council
- Member of the Board of the German Society for Matrix Biology
- Member of the Board of the International Society for Matrix Biology
- Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), Tübingen
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), Dresden
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM), Freiburg
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), Jena
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI), Aachen
Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt (M)
acatech Vice President, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- President of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy project Energy Systems of the Future (ESYS) (2016–2021: Member of the Directorate)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Energy and Climate Policy and Innovation Council e.V. (EPICO)
- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – German National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Standing Committee on Demographic Change
- Member of the Expert Committee of the Programme to Promote Top-Level Research at Universities (“Excellence Strategy”) conducted by the Joint Science Conference (GWK)
- Chair of the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI) (2018–2021: Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board and Foundation Council)
- Member of the COVID-19 Expert Panel established by the Prime Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia
- Member of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts, Co-Chair since 2020
- Member of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts
- Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London
- Member of the OECD’s Research Committee of the International Network on Financial Education (INFE)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, since 2017: Member of the Kommission für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich
- Consultant Member of the Board of the Health Economics Research Center (CINCH), University of Duisburg-Essen
- Member of the Research Campus jury initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Jackstädt Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research, University of Wuppertal
- President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
- Chair and Board Member of RGS Econ, Essen
- Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
- Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
- Member of committees at the Verein für Socialpolitik: Economic Policy, Social Policy, Econometrics, Industrial Economics, Population Economics
- Member of the Applied Econometrics committee at the German Statistical Society (DStatG)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Basalt AG
- Member of the Investment Committee of Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
- Member of the Advisory Board of NRW.BANK
- Member of the Advisory Board of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Anita Thyssen Foundation and indirectly a Member of the Board of Directors of Thyssen Vermögensverwaltung GmbH
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
- Patron of Ehrenamt Agentur Essen e.V.
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Kinderstiftung Essen
- Member of the Rotary Club, Essen-Ruhr
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weber (M)
acatech President, acatech member, acatech Senator
Other offices and mandates
- Member of the Advisory Board of Brose, a family business, Bamberg
- Member of the Dürr Technology Council, Dürr AG, a public limited company, Bietigheim-Bissingen
- Member of the Advisory Board of Röchling Automotive (RAAB), Röchling SE & CoKG, Mannheim
- Member of the Advisory Board of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility (MCFM), McKinsey & Company Inc., Munich
- Member of the Technology Advisory Council of Magna Automotive Holding GmbH, Sailauf
- Member of the Advisory Board of DEKRA e.V., Stuttgart
- Member of the Sustainability Council of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
- Member of the Foundation Council of the Stiftung Werner von Siemens-Ring, Berlin
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Wörner (M)
acatech President, acatech member
Other offices and mandates
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – German National Academy of Sciences
- Managing Director and Test Engineer with Wörner und Nordhues Engineering
- Member of the Management Board of Forum Flughafen und Region (mediation and dialogue platform for Frankfurt airport)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Seraphim (t.b.c.)
- Member of the International Advisory Board of Ecole Centrale de Lyon
- Hesse Space Coordinator