Executive Board

Honorary Chairmen

S.E. Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, Co-Chairman East West Institute, Helsinki/New York, Finland

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gramke, Chairman of the Institute for European Affairs e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany

Members of the Board

Chairman of the Board

Kurt Bodewig former Federal Minister, Maritime Ambassador of the European Union, Berlin, Germany

Vice Chairman

Prof. Dr. Bruno O. Braun, Chairman of the Board, TÜV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg AG, Cologne, Germany

Vice Chairman

Dr. Eero Rantala, former Minister of State, Finland, CEO Entendu Oy, Helsinki, Finland, Representative Baltic Sea Forum, Finland

Directors

Dr. Anita Gradin, former Ambassador, former EU-Commisioner, former Minister, Stockholm, Schweden

Brigitte Langenhagen, former Member of the European Parliament, Cuxhaven, Germany

Morten Munk, Managing Director, Andersen & Feilberg, Aarhus, Denmark

Prof. Dr. Zenonas Namavicius, Constitutional Judge of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

Matti Paasila, Zurich, Switzerland

Andres Pajuste, Member of the Management Board NordBioChem, Pölva, Estonia

Arno Pöker, Chief representative for Deutsche Seereederei GmbH,
honorary consul of the Kingdom of Denmark,
former mayor of the Hanseatic City of Rostock

Jürgen Schmidt, treasurer, Member of the Bürgerschaft of Hamburg (retired), Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Stephan Stein, Director of the Representative Office of the Chamber of Commerce of Hamburg and the Branch Offices of the Delegation for German Economic Affairs in the Russian Federation in St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, Russia

Commissioner of the Board

Kapitän Jörg Neubert, executive commissioner of the board for maritime affairs, Hamburg, Germany