COMMITTEES

RWI operates as a legally independent registered association. Members of the association can be companies and corporations under public law as well as social and economic organizations interested in the goals of the institute. Members pay an annual membership fee, the amount of which is left to their own discretion. The minimum membership fee is set annually by the General Assembly and currently amounts to 1,300 euros. Membership fees are donations for charitable purposes for the promotion of science. 

The statutory bodies of the association are: 

The general meeting has the following main tasks:  

• Receipt of the annual report of the Board of Directors  
• Adoption of resolutions on the annual financial statements, discharge of the Governing Board and the Board of Directors 
• Election of the members of the Governing Board as well as the auditor 
• Passing resolutions on amendments to the Articles of Association as well as the dissolution of the Association. 

The Governing Board shall consist of at least 11, but no more than 16 persons, to be elected, if possible, from among the members, who are qualified to safeguard and promote the interests of the Institute.

Prof. Dr. Birgitta Wolff

Chair of the Administrative Board of the RWI,

Rector of the University of Wuppertal

Dr. Stefan Dietzfelbinger

Deputy Chair of the Administrative Board of the RWI,

Chief Executive of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce Duisburg-Wesel-Kleve in Duisburg

Petra Justenhoven

Deputy Chair of the RWI Board of Directors,

Spokesperson for the Management Board of PwC Germany, and Chairwoman and Senior Partner of PwC Europe

Dr. Martin Sonnenschein

Deputy Chair of the RWI Board of Directors,

Chair of the Supervisory Board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

Heinrich Otto Deichmann

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Directors of DEICHMANN SE

Knut Giesler

District Manager of IG Metall North Rhine-Westphalia

Prof. Dr. Hans Jörg Hennecke

Chief Executive of HANDWERK.NRW

Ronald Janßen-Timmen

Chairman of the Works Council of RWI

Bernd Jung

Chairman of the Board of Sparkasse Essen

Dr. Thomas A. Lange

Chairman of the Board of National-Bank AG

Ulrich Leitermann

Former Chairman of the Board of SIGNAL IDUNA Group

Dr.-Ing. Herbert Lütkestratkötter

Former Chairman of the Board of Hochtief AG

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Paul

Rector of Ruhr University Bochum

Prof. Dr. Claudia Peus

Vice President of the Technical University of Munich

Dr. Stefan Profit

Representative of the relevant federal ministry, Head of the IC Macroeconomic Development, Analysis and Projections Division at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert

State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia