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.

• Chair: 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
• Winfried Mengelkamp
  State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dr Bernhard Santel
  Ministry for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Professor Dr Stefan Talmon
  Bonn University

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.

• N.N.
  Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
• David de Beer
  SSR and Post-conflict development consultant, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
• 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
• Professor Dr Yvan Guichaoua 
  Senior Lecturer, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies, Belgium 
• Professor Angela Kane
  Former Under-Secretary-General of the UN
  Chair of the Board of Directors, Dialogue Advisory Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Senior Advisor, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington D.C., USA
  Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China / Schwarzman Scholar Pr
• Chair: Professor Dr Teresa Koloma Beck
  Professor of Sociology, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
• Einas Mohammed 
  Political Affairs Officer / Africa Coordinator on UN Security Council Resolution 1540 Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia 
• Branka Panic
  Founder and Executive Director of AI for Peace, San Francisco, USA,
  New York University, Center on International Cooperation
• Professor Dr Bernhard Trautner 
  Prof. adj., Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany