Organisation
The WCGE consists of three organisational units, which work together closely:
- The charitable association was founded in 1998. It is represented by the board and the Presidium fulfills the role of a supervisory board. This organization conducts the operative activities and employs people to this end.
- The charitable foundation was founded in 2008 with a base financing of approx. 2.5 million Euro. The foundation consists of the management board, the advisory board, which fulfills a supervisory function, and the honorary board of trustees and has the function of guaranteeing the long-term continuity of the Center’s work and financing individual projects.
- The American Foundation for the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics Inc., represented by the Board of Directors, has represented the Center’s interests in the USA since 2001 and coordinates opportunities for support from across the Atlantic.
The charitable organisation, the German foundation and the American foundation are all supported by well-known personalities, corporations and organisations..

Dr. Rolf-Dieter Acker
Former Head of Region South America
BASF SE
Foundation’s Advisory Council

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhmer
Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt ret.
Foundation’s Advisory Council

Dr. Martin von Broock
Chairman of the Management Board
Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics
Foundation’s Management Board

Prof. Dr. Volker Deville
F/L Think Tank eG
University of Bayreuth
Association’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Clemens Dölken O.Praem
Prior Prämonstratenserkloster Magdeburg
Foundation’s Advisory Council

Saori Dubourg
Former Member of the Board of Executive Directors
BASF SE
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Matthias Füssel
Head of Group Human Resources
Commerzbank AG
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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Prof. Reinhold R. Geilsdörfer
Geschäftsführer
Dieter-Schwarz-Stiftung
Association’s Board of Trustees

Stefan Grosch
Member of the Board of Management and Director of Industrial Relations
Robert Bosch GmbH
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Dr. Reiner Haseloff
Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt
Association’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl Homann
Professor em. for Business ethics
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Waldemar Hötte
Managing Director
Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics
Association’s Management Board

Angelika Huber-Strasser
Regionalvorständin Süd
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Association’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Huber
Bishop ret.
Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) ret.
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Renata Jungo Brüngger
Member of the Board of Management Integrity and Legal Affairs
Daimler AG
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler
Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany ret.
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Dietmar Kokott
Former Senior Vice President
BASF SE
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Dr. Stephan Kothrade
Member of the Board of Executive Directors
BASF SE
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Barbara Lamprecht
Former Coordinator Business and Human Rights
Volkswagen AG
Association’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Cardinal Marx
Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Sören Marx
Filialdirektor
Deutsche Bank AG
Foundation’s Management Board

Astrid Messmer
Group Infrastructure Strategy & Business Analytics
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Vice President of Association’s Board of Trustees

Oliver Morgenthal
Head of Corporate Communication
K+S Aktiengesellschaft
Foundation’s Advisory Council

Dr. Stephan Muschick
Managing Director
E.ON Stiftung gGmbH
Vice Chairman of Foundation’s Advisory Council

Prof. Dr. Peter-Christian Müller-Graff
Association’s Board of Trustees

Eckhard Naumann
Former Lord Mayor
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
President of the Association’s Board of Trustees
Chairman of Foundation’s Advisory Council

Prof. Dr. Bolko von Oetinger
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees
BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Dr. Andreas Ogrinz
Geschäftsführer Bildung, Innovation, Nachhaltigkeit
Bundesarbeitgeberverband Chemie e.V.
Association’s Board of Trustees

Thorsten Pinkepank
Director Corporate Sustainability Relations
BASF SE
Vice President of Association’s Board of Trustees

Dr. Richard Pott
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Covestro AG
Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Bodo Rodestock
Executive Board Member
Verbundnetz Gas AG
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Paul C. Rosser
Foundation’s Board of Trustees
President American Foundation's Board

Sally Rosser
American Foundation's Board
Association’s Board of Trustees

Sylvia Schenk
Herbert Smith Freehills Germany LLP
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Philipp Schreck
Friede-Springer Endowed Chair of Business Ethics and Management Accounting
Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Association’s Management Board

PD Dr. Lisa Schmalzried
Foundation’s Management Board

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schwenker
Senior Fellow
Roland Berger GmbH
Association’s Board of Trustees

Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek
Dr. Werner Jackstädt Chair of Economic and Business Ethics
HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Chairman of the Foundation´s Management Board

Wolfgang Tiefensee
State Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society of Thuringia
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Michael Vassiliadis
Chairman
IG Bergbau Chemie Energie
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Thomas Wessel
Chief Human Resources Officer
Evonik Industries AG
Foundation’s Board of Trustees

Hon. Andrew Young
US Ambassador ret.
Founder
Foundation’s Board of Trustees
American Foundation's Board

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Torsten Zugehör
Lord Mayor
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Foundation’s Advisory Council