The Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees can have up to 14 members. It is made up of Liz Mohn and other public figures who have had contact with or who have shown an ongoing interest in the foundation's work, on the one hand, and who have leadership experience and an appreciation of the importance of continuity within organizational structures, on the other.
Our members
Prof. Dr. Werner J. Bauer
Executive Vice President Nestlé S.A., Chief Technology Officer, Head of Innovation, Technology, Research and Development
moreLiz Mohn
Vice-Chair of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Executive Board, Chair of the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft (BVG) (Bertelsmann Management Company)
moreDr. Wulf H. Bernotat
Former chair of the board of E.ON AG,
Chair/member of supervisory boards of several corporations as well as of Allianz SE, Metro AG and Ruhrkohle AG.
Dr. Ing. Ralph Heck
A director at McKinsey, Ralph Heck has been with the management consulting firm for some 30 years.
moreDr. Jürgen Stark
A former chief economist of the European Central Bank (ECB), Dr. Jürgen Stark, 64, was from 2006 to 2012 a member of the ECB’s Executive Board.
moreReinhard Mohn
Until his death on October 3, 2009, the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s founder, Reinhard Mohn, was a member of the organization’s Board of Trustees.
moreExecutive Board
Here you will find all the members of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board.
To the list of members of the Executive Board








