Dr. Hermann Falk
Deputy Secretary General
Director of the Administration & Corporate Sector department

Degree and legal clerkship in Saarbrücken, Tübingen, Berlin and New York; economic adviser and solicitor in Düsseldorf; head of legal services at the Munich headquarters of the Goethe Institute. Further part-time and voluntary occupations: Member of various investment committees in the field of ethical-environmental investments; Chair of the advisory board of Naturstrom Düsseldorf; Member of the advisory board of “Goethe institutes in Germany,” Munich.

Anke Pätsch

Management Board Member

Director of the Media & Communication department

Press spokesperson

Degree in German, East European studies, editorial studies, German as
a foreign language in Berlin, Leipzig, St. Petersburg, Prague; publishing editor in Prague; scholarship holder of the Robert Bosch foundation, Slovakia (1997-98); trainee at Wegweiser; Office and Project manager for beta-web (2000/01); evening course as PR adviser (dapr).

Dr. Hedda Hoffmann-Steudner

Management Board Member
Legal adviser and Director of Legal Services

Law degree in Münster, Lausanne and Cologne; Research associate at the Institute for Recent History of Private Law, University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Klaus Luig); legal clerkship in Cologne (2001-2003).

Pia Elisabeth Liehr
Management Board Member
Director of the Member Services department

Degree in business economics (until 1995), Office manager of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1995-2005); Trainee at the Sydney Opera House’s development department

Dr. Burkhard Küstermann

Management Board Member
Project manager of the Community Foundation Initiative (IBS)

Dr. Burkhard Küstermann, LL.M., Research associate at the Institute for Local Government Law at the University of Osnabrück (Prof. Jörn Ipsen) (2000), Legal clerkship at Osnabrück regional court (2002), IBS legal adviser (2005), Personal Assistant to the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (2007), Project manager of the Association of German Foundations’ Community Foundations Initiative (since 2008)