Boards

DIPF's constitution stipulates three boards:

• Foundation Council
• Governing Board
• Scientific Advisory Board
  
  

Foundation Council

The Foundation Council monitors the fulfilment of the foundation’s purposes and the legal correctness, purpose orientation and economic efficiency of the management by the Institute’s Governing Board

Chair

• Prof. Dr. Manfred Prenzel, TUM (Technical University of Munich)

Deputy Chair

• Dr. Dorothee Lux, Hesse Ministry of Science and Arts

Further Members

• Prof. Dr. Sabine Andresen, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
• Stefanie Busch, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Gräsel, University of Wuppertal
• Staatsekretär Dr. Manuel Lösel, Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (Hessisches Kultusministerium)
• Ministerialdirigent Dr. Stefan Luther, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
• Dr. Birgit Pikowsky, Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rhineland-Palatinate
• Kerstin Schneider, Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care, Berlin
• Frank Scholze, German National Library
• City Councillor Sylvia Weber, Department XI – Education, Real Estate and New Construction, Frankfurt am Main
• Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim

Advisory Members to the Foundation Council

• Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders, Governing Board
• Dr. Sonja Bayer, Staff Representative
• Susanne Boomkamp-Dahmen, Managing Director
• Elisabeth Cassebaum, Ombudsperson for Equal Opportunities
• Dr. Stefan Cramme, Governing Board
• Manuela Hiller, Staff Representative
• Prof. Dr. Katharina Maag Merki, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board
• Prof. Dr. Mareike Kunter, Governing Board
• Prof. Dr. Kai Maaz, Director
• Jörg Muskatewitz, Chair of the General Staff Council
• Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger, Deputy Executive Director
• N.N., Ombudsperson for Equal Opportunities

Governing Board

The Governing Board conducts the Institute’s affairs according to the Foundation’s constitution and decisions made by the Foundation Council. Its members are:

Executive Director

• Prof. Dr. Kai Maaz
  Director of the department Educational Governance

Deputy Executive Director

• Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger 
  Director of the Information Center for Education

Managing Director

• Susanne Boomkamp-Dahmen

Further Members

• Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders
  Director of the department for Education and Human Development
• Dr. Stefan Cramme
  Director of the Research Library for the History of Education
• Prof. Dr. Mareike Kunter
  Director of the department for Teacher and Teaching Quality

Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board counsels the Foundation Council and the Governing Board as regards fundamental scholarly and general questions pertinent to work and development programmes as well as international and national co-operations of the Institute. Its members are:

Chair

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Maag Merki, Institute of Education, Universität Zürich

Deputy Chair

• Dr. Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources

Further Members

• Prof. Dr. Birgit Eickelmann, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Paderborn University
• Prof. Dr. Eckhardt Fuchs, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig
• Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
• Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schoon, Institute of Education, University of London
• Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) e.V., Karlsruhe
• Prof. Dr. Franziska Vogt, St.Gallen University of Teacher Education (PHSG)