Governing Bodies
ZIF is a non-profit company with limited liability. Sole shareholder is the Federal Republic of Germany represented by the German Federal Foreign Office. The ZIF Supervisory Board is composed of parliamentary undersecretaries from the foreign, defence, development and interior ministries and one MP from each of the parliamentary groups in the German Parliament. An International Advisory Board also supports the work of ZIF. The Center's Executive Director is Dr. Almut Wieland-Karimi.
ZIF Supervisory Board
Members of the ZIF Supervisory Board for the 19th legislative period are:
- Michael Roth (Chairperson of the Supervisory Board) | MP | Minister of State | German Federal Foreign Office
- Dr. Franziska Brantner (Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board) | MP | German Parliament, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Parliamentary Group
- Renata Alt | MP | German Parliament, FDP Parliamentary Group
- Dagmar Busch | Ministerialdirektorin | Federal Ministry of the Interior
- Markus Grübel | MP | German Parliament, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group
- Berengar Elsner von Gronow | MP | German Parliament, AfD Parliamentary Group
- Dr. Elke Löbel | Ministerialrätin | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Dr. Alexander Neu | MP | German Parliament, Die Linke Parliamentary Group
ZIF International Advisory Board
- Jonas Alberoth (Chairperson of the Advisory Board) | Principal Senior Advisor to the Challenges Forum International Secretariat | Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Lieutenant General Erich Pfeffer (Deputy Chairperson of the Advisory Board) | Commander | Bundeswehr Joint Forces Operations Command, Geltow/Schwielowsee (Germany)
- Maurice Aboki | Political Advisor | EU Special Representative Sahel, Bamako (Mali)
- Yvonne Akpasom | Head of the Conflict Prevention Component | GIZ Project ECOWAS Peace and Security Architecture and Operations, Abuja (Nigeria)
- Dr. Alhaji Sarjoh Bah | Chief Advisor on Peace, Security and Governance | Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union (AU) to the United Nations, New York (USA)
- Luis Carrilho | United Nations Police Adviser | United Nations Department of Peace Operations (DPO), New York (USA)
- Annett Gerber | Monitoring Officer | OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Ukraine (SMMU), Luhansk (Ukraine)
- David Haeri | Director of the Division for Policy, Evaluation & Training | United Nations Department of Peace Operations (DPO), New York (USA)
- Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven | Member of the Management Board | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn/Berlin (Germany)
- Major General Oliver Kohl | Commandant | Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg (Germany)
- Dr. Brigitte Lammers | Partner | Egon Zehnder International GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
- Major General Francis Ofori | Commandant | Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra (Ghana)
- Helga Maria Schmid | Secretary General | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna (Austria)
- Stefano Tomat | Director | Integrated Approach for Security and Peace Directorate (ISP), European External Action Service (EEAS), Brussels (Belgium)
- Teresa Whitfield | Director of the Policy and Mediation Division | United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), New York (USA)