Boards

The Supervisory Board gives advice to bicc's Board of Trustees and supervises the Director. The Supervisory Board is made up of representatives of Trustees, all being public figures from politics, economy, science and/or public authorities.

• Thorsten Menne
  Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Ingrid Arenz
  Engagement Global gGmbH - Service for Development Initiatives
• Dr Barbara Basten
  Ministry of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dr Frank Hochapfel
  State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dr Orkan Kösemen
  Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Professor Dr Birgit Ulrike Münch
  University of Bonn, Germany

The International Board advises bicc and its director on matters of research and policy. In its capacity, it makes suggestions concerning the annual work program and comments on the publications.

The members are appointed for a period of three years by the Board of Trustees (Gesellschafterversammlung). They serve in an honorary position.

• Anka Feldhusen
  Federal Government Commissioner for Crisis Prevention and Stabilisation 
  Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
• Professor Dr Stephan Conermann
  Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany 
  Institute for Islamic Sciences and Languages of the Middle East, University of Bonn, Germany
• Markus Derblom
  Head of the Department for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
  Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
• Professor Dr Elizabeth Ferris
  Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
• Professor Dr Laurent Goetschel
  Director of swisspeace
  Professor for Political Sciences, Social Sciences Department, University of Basel, Switzerland
• Dr Paul Holtom
  Head of the Conventional Arms and Ammunition Programme UNDIR
• Professor Dr Angela Kane
  Former Under-Secretary-General of the UN
  Chair of the Board of Directors, Dialogue Advisory Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna
  Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China / Schwarzman Scholar Pr
• Chair: Professor Dr Teresa Koloma Beck
  Professor of Sociology, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
• Professor Dr Bernhard Trautner 
  Prof. adj., Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany
• Professor Dr Eva Youkhana
  Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany