Board of Directors
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations has one of the youngest boards in Germany. The board represents the foundation, organises projects, starts campaigns and draws up position papers. It manages the foundation’s funds and prepares the annual report.
Carl-Georg Christoph Luft (Chair of the board)
was born in 1989 and is a research assistant in the evidence-based policy advisory department of the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research (SAFE). As a behavioural economist at the German Federal Armed Forces University (Bundeswehr Universität) he focuses on optimizing the pension-related choice architecture for millennials, for which he received the Lambsdorff Scholarship of the Naumann Foundation. He conducted research at the University of Oxford upon being invited by Nuffield College. Due to his specialisation in finance at the University of St Andrews, Goethe University Frankfurt and Copenhagen Business School, the economist has gained experience in the financial industry and business consulting.
Main focus areas: financial sustainability, pensions and retirement policy, demographics, future of work
Nicole Agit
was born in 1995, she is working as an assistant of the Taskforce Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) of the German Commission for UNESCO. She studied sociology (BA) at the University of Marburg, Germany and is currently studying the sociology Master at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her bachelor studies were focused on social structure and conflict analysis, globalisation and societal development as well as political sociology – whereby inequality relations were constantly kept in focus. Her bachelor thesis was dedicated to the topic “Care Work and Migration – A Gender-Sociological Analysis of European Care Chains Using the Example of Polish Live-In Care Workers in Germany“.
Main focus areas: care policy, child poverty, participation
Sophie Neuendorf
was born in 1995 and is currently working as a nurse in Heidelberg. After leaving school she volunteered for a year at the Mannheim University Hospital. After beginning her latest studies she started to think more broadly about the options open to young people – especially in the healthcare sector – and about how they adapt to working conditions there.
Main focus areas: health policy, mental health, voting age
Jörg Tremmel founded the FRFG. He was responsible for representing the Foundation in the media between 2000–2008, but has since left this to the next generation. His primary role nowadays is the organization of the “walkshops” (see below).
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees supports the board’s work.
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich
has been the director and managing director of the Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin since 1981, a member of the Energy Advisory Board of the Berlin Senate since 1988, the scientific director of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1989, the director of the Secretariat for Future Research in Gelsenkirchen since 1990 and the chairman of the Committee for Emission Control of the State of Brandenburg since 1993. He has written ca. 400 publications on education, science and technology policy as well as on environmental, economic, labour and innovation policy and future research. His book publications include Ecological Production (1990), Futurology and Politics (1991), Sustainable Development — A Model for the Future of Economy and Society (1996) and Competitive Advantages through Ecological Services (1999).
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ortwin Renn
has been the scientific director of the Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research (IASS) in Potsdam since 2016. In 2012 he founded the Centre for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Research at the University of Stuttgart (ZIRIUS), which he directed until 2017. He was also a Full Professor of Environmental and Technical Sociology at the University of Stuttgart. In addition to his involvement at the University of Stuttgart, Renn was a co-founder of the DIALOGIK research institute. He has occupied positions in numerous important committees, including the chairman of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the State of Baden-Württemberg from 2006 to 2012. Prof. Renn is the (co-)author of numerous publications in the field of technology and risk sociology.
Project Manager
Jörg Tremmel (project manager “walkshops”)
supervises the “walkshops” of the FRFG. The main idea is that an expansion of knowledge can be fostered through physical movement (thus the combination of the words “workshop” and “walk” = “walkshop”). Participants are meant to absorb facts and understand concepts through auditory learning materials over the course of several days whilst hiking through nature. Participants additionally follow presentations and panel discussions to further expand their insight into the topic.
Janka Reinthaler (research assistant with office management responsibilities)
was born in 1990, works as a research assistant with office management responsibilities at the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations. MA in sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. BA in sociology with a minor in philosophy at the University of Kassel. Within the MA program, she focused on the topics of knowledge, technology and the environment. She is interested in modern social transformation processes – especially in connection with socio-ecological issues.
Pia Krug
is a volunteer and a staff member in the foundation‘s office. She brings her professional experience from the areas of IT and programming and supports the general administrative work of the foundation once a week.
Additionaly, the team is always supported by several young and highly dedicated interns.