Committees

Board of Trustees

Chairman of the Board of Trustees:
Senator Dr. Carsten Brosda | Minister and Head, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees:
Verena Westermann, Head, Department Museum Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Members:
Dr. Reinhard Behrens | State Secretary (ret.), Chairman of the Friends of the Museum

Monika Bethmann | Head of Unit, Ministry of Finance of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Nils Fiebig | Chairman of the Staff Council of the Museum am Rothenbaum

Dr. Christian Jacobs | Chairman, Executive Board of Joh. Jacobs & Co. (AG & Co.) KG

Elisabeth Kaneza | political scientist

Dr. Anna Schmid | Director, Museum of Cultures Basel

Advisory Board

Bernhard Fischer-Appelt | Founder + Management Board, fischerAppelt AG

Kay Gätgens | Managing Director, IBA Hamburg

Kübra Gümüșay | journalist, activist, blogger

Stavros Konas | lawyer

Prof. Dr. Wayne Modest | Director of Content, National Museums of Worldcultures

Bisrat Negassi | fashion and costume designer, founder of the fashion label NEGASSI and co-founder of M.Bassy

Christine Neuhaus | Head of Funding, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

David M. Neumann | Group CEO, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe

Manouchehr Shamsrizi | M.P.P. FRSA. Teaches on “Technology of the Future and their Impact on Society” at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, co-founder of the research group “gamelab.berlin” at the Cluster of Excellence of the Humboldt University of Berlin

Ulrike Stapelfeldt | lawyer, former Director of the Hamburg Parliament (Bürgerschaft)