Board of Trustees

As a supervisory body, the Board of Trustees considers and takes decisions on matters relating to the IPN’s finances and its fundamental direction. Further aspects of its remit are monitoring the Institute’s compliance with the law and with principles of cost-effectiveness and approving its annual budget and medium-term financial plan. The Trustees appoint the IPN’s Research and Administrative Directors, their deputies, and the members of the Scientific Advisory Board.

Voting members

  • Guido Wendt (Chairman), Ministry of General Education and Vocational Training, Science, Research and Culture of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
  • Dr. Stefan Luther (Deputy), Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin
  • Martina Hoffmann, Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care, Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Ralph Schneider, Vice President for Internationalization and Early Career Researchers, Kiel University
  • Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Frank Kempken, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Kiel University
  • Prof. Dr. Ilka Wolter, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg
  • Janine Kordes, Kieler Seifen GmbH; SCHULZ Industriereiniger – PRODUKTION & HANDEL, Kiel
  • Dr. Michael H. Wappelhorst, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (representative of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany)

Members with advisory vote rights only

  • Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nagengast, University of Tübingen (Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board)
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller, IPN (Managing Director of Research)
  • Mareike Bierlich, IPN (Managing Director of Administration)
  • two IPN Staff Council members
  • Dr. Marta Chiarinotti, IPN (Equal Opportunities Officer)