Broadcasting Council

Highest authority: The Broadcasting Council ensures that DW fulfills its mandate and goals

Chair

Prelate Dr. Karl Jüsten

Broadcasting Council Chair

Head of the Commissariat of German Bishops - Catholic Office in Berlin, nominated by the Catholic Church

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Council members

Sibylle Spoo

Broadcasting Council Deputy Chair

Head of Division at the trade union ver.di (ret.), nominated by the German Trade Union Central Organisations

Marco Wanderwitz

Chair of the Distribution Committee

(CDU) Former Parliamentary State Secretary, nominated by the German Federal Parliament

Vera Szackamer

Chair of the DW Akademie Committee

Member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Central Council in Germany, nominated by the Jewish Central Council

Prof. Christian Höppner

Chair of the Program Committee, Budget rapporteur

President of the German Culture Council, nominated by the German Culture Council

Frank Kopania

Budget rapporteur

Vice President of the Church Office of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), nominated by EKD

Wolfram Weimer

Minister of State for Culture and the Media, nominated by the German Federal Government

Otto Fricke

Chair of the Executive Board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), appointed by the DOSB

Serap Güler, MP

(CDU) Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, nominated by the German Federal Government

Helge Lindh, MP

(SPD) Member of the Bundestag, nominated by the German Federal Parliament

Dr. Bärbel Kofler, MP

(SPD) Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, nominated by the German Federal Government

Prof. Dr. Carola Richter

Professor of International Communication at the Free University of Berlin, nominated by the German Rectors' Conference

Ulrike Hiller

State Councilor (ret.), nominated by the German Federal Council

Markus Ulbig

Minister of State (ret.), nominated by the German Federal Council

Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel

Chair of the GIZ Management Board, nominated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Christina Ramb

Member of the Executive Management of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), appointed by the BDA in agreement with the DIHK

Dr. Anja Utler

Poet, appointed by the German Academy for Language and Literature

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