The members of the Board of Trustees of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are appointed by the Federal Government and by the Government of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The board is composed of staff members of federal and state government departments with a particular interest in the DIE's activities and of representatives of public life. Its task is to supervise the Institute's work.
The DIE's Board of Trustees is composed of the following members:
- Helga Barth
Representative of the Federal Foreign Office "Menschenrechte, Internationale Entwicklung und Soziales" and Department Coordinator for "Nachhaltige Entwicklung",
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin - Ambassador Alexander Baum
Adviser to the Deputy Secretary General for Global and Economic Issues on ACP and Post Cotonou negotiations at European External Action Service, Brussels - Andreas Botsch
Head of Department Internationale und europäische Gewerkschaftspolitik, DGB - German Trade Union Confederation, Bundesvorstand, Berlin - Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs
Professoring Transregional Southeast Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin - Jochen Flasbarth (Chair)
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) - Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote
Director, Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, University Hannover - Dr. Dirk Günnewig
Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen - Joachim Heidebrecht
Head of Department, KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt am Main - Prof. Dr. Michael Hoch
Rector, University Bonn, Bonn - Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther
Director and Member of the Presidium, German Economic Institute, Cologne - Prof. Dr. Conrad Schetter
Director, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) gGmbH - Dr. Claudia Schmucker
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin - Dr. Elke Siehl
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH - Ludger Siemes
Staatskanzlei des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf - Margitta Wülker-Mirbach
Head of Department VD1 "Entwicklungspolitik, Agrarpolitik", Vereinte Nationen, UNCTAD
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Bonn