Management Board and Supervisory Board

As an association established and registered under German civil law the IWH is composed of different internal bodies through which it is led and coordinated, advised and supervised. These boards include the Management Board, the Supervisory Board, the Members' Assembly as well as the Scientific Advisory Board.

Below you can find more details on the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Management Board

The Management Board is a collegial body. It consists of the President, the Head of Administration and the Heads of the four Scientific Departments of the IWH.

The Executive Board is part of the Management Board and consists of the President, the two Vice Presidents and the Head of Administration. Each member of the Executive Board has sole power of representation in accordance with section 26 of the German Civil Code (BGB) and represents the Association in and out of court.
 

Professor Reint E. Gropp, PhD is the President of the IWH.

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Professor Dr Oliver Holtemöller is Vice President and Head of the Department of Macroeconomics.

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Professor Michael Koetter, PhD, is Vice President and Head of the Department of Financial Markets.

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Dr Tankred Schuhmann is the Head of Administration.

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Supervisory Board

Dr Martina Münch

Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board; Mayor and Councillor for the Department of Social Affairs, Health and Diversity of the City of Leipzig

Professor Dr Armin Willingmann

Minister of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt

Dr Stefan Profit

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Professor Dr Christoph Wunder

Faculty of Law, Economics and Business, Chair of Econometrics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Professor Dr Abdolkarim Sadrieh

Faculty of Economics and Management, Chair in E-Business, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Dr Matthias Brachert

Chairman of the works council

MR Klaus Brandenburg

Federal Ministry of Finance

Franziska Hornig

Secretary General, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Alfred Kammer 

Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund

Corina Paetsch

Director General Construction Management, Deutsche Bundesbank

Dr Michael Wolgast

Managing Partner, twp Berlin PartG

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