Foundation Council – Leibniz University Hannover

The Foundation Council consists of seven members: five external members, one University Senate representative and one ministry representative. In addition to advising the university, making decisions on matters of fundamental importance to the foundation, and monitoring the activities of the Presidential Board, the Foundation Council has the following responsibilities:

Nominating, appointing or dismissing members of the university’s Presidential Board
Deciding on changes to and charges on basic assets as well as on taking out loans
Approving budgets
Receiving the Presidential Board's accountability report
Determining the annual financial statement and discharging the foundation’s Presidential Board
Approving the foundation’s participation in businesses or start-ups
Supervising legal issues within the university
Resolving amendments to the foundation's statutes as well as issuing, amending or annulling other statutes of the foundation

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek (Chairperson)
(Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Falling Walls Foundation, former president of the Helmholtz Association)
Dr. Ulrike Albrecht
(Consultant for global research cooperation and internationalisation strategies; former head of the Strategy and External Relations department at the Humboldt Foundation)
Prof. Dr. Christine Falk
(Head of the Institute of Transplant Immunology at Hannover Medical School)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fettweis
(Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at TU Dresden)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Köster
(Member of the LUH Senate, professor of sanitary engineering at Leibniz University Hannover)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schachtner
(State secretary, Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony)
Silke Sehm
(Executive Board member at Hannover Rück SE)

Members in an advisory capacity

Prof. Dr. iur. Volker Epping (President)
Dr. Christoph Strutz (Senior Vice President)
Prof. Dr. Julia Gillen (Vice President for Education)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Blume (Vice President for Research and Transfer)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Regina Nogueira (Vice President for International Affairs and Sustainability)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Escher (Vice President for Human Resources Development)
Sarah Peters (Equal opportunities officer)
Katja Bohne (Staff Council representative)
Yudhveer Singh Nijjer (Student body representative)