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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)”.

Portrait Prof. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner
© Astrid Eckert/Photographie

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock
© FAU/Giulia Iannicelli

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert
© Fraunhofer AISEC

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Ursula Gather
© Krupp-Stiftung

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Armin GrunwaldProf. 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

 

 

 

 

Portrait Torsten Jeworrek
© Munich Re

Dr. Torsten Jeworrek

acatech member

Other offices and mandates

  • Non-Executive Director of Renaissance Re, Bermuda
  • Member of the Quantum Council of IQM, Helsinki

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Christoph Leyens

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Dr. Stefan Oschmann
© Bernd Hartung/Merck KGaA

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel
© ifo Institut

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn
© acatech/Ausserhofer

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)

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Hermann RequardtProf. 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

 

 

 

 

Portrait Frank Riemensperger
© Riemensperger

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Russwurm
© BDI

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Russwurm

acatech Vice President, 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

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland
© WAHLUNIVERSUM Foto by Jessica Wahl

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt
© Sven Lorenz/RWI

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

 

 

 

 

Ein Porträtfoto von Dipl. Kaufmann Wolfgang Siegel im blauen Anzug
© Svea Pietschmann

Wolfgang Siegel (G)

acatech Managing Director

Other offices and mandates

None

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weber
© Thomas Weber

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

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Wörner
© ESA

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

 

 

 

 

 

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