Board of Directors

The Foun­da­tion for the Rights of Future Gen­er­a­tions (FRFG) 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.

 

Grace Clover
Grace is study­ing His­to­ry and Mod­ern Lan­guages (Ger­man) in her final year at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford, hav­ing recent­ly com­plet­ed a year abroad study­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bonn. In her first two years of stud­ies she was active in the stu­dent union as the ‘Ethics and Envi­ron­ment Rep­re­sen­ta­tive’ with­in her col­lege, organ­is­ing edu­ca­tion­al events about envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion and sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and lead­ing a sus­tain­able food com­mit­tee. She has also col­lab­o­rat­ed with the dia­betes research char­i­ty Juve­nile Dia­betes Research Foun­da­tion (JDRF), rais­ing aware­ness for their research and the expe­ri­ence of auto-immune disorders.

Main focus areas: sus­tain­abil­i­ty, ‘long views’ on the future, social justice

 

Luise-RoitherLuise Roither (Head and Speak­er of the Board)
Luise is a health­care econ­o­mist and works in the field of R&D of med­ical tech­nol­o­gy inno­va­tions, for the future devel­op­ment of the health­care sys­tem. In 2016, she found­ed her own ini­tia­tive for the young gen­er­a­tion in the health sec­tor, Denkschmiede Gesund­heit, which is now a part of FRFG. Luise has ded­i­cat­ed her pro­fes­sion­al and also part of her pri­vate life to the health­care sec­tor and is con­stant­ly on the look­out for peo­ple and organ­i­sa­tions who share this enthu­si­asm and want to join her on the path towards a sus­tain­able health sector.

Main focus areas: Health­care, health pol­i­cy, self-admin­is­tra­tion, financ­ing issues of the care sys­tem, young net­works in the health and care sector

 

Christo­pher Isensee
born in 1992, is a polit­i­cal sci­en­tist. The focus of his stud­ies at the Mar­tin Luther Uni­ver­si­ty Halle-Wit­ten­berg, the Harz Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences in Hal­ber­stadt and the Masaryiko­va Uni­verzi­ta in Brno (Czech Repub­lic) was on polit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion and the­o­ries of polit­i­cal change. Pro­fes­sion­al­ly, Christo­pher works in the field of devel­op­ment infor­ma­tion and education.

Main focus areas: polit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion, ener­gy and envi­ron­ment, polit­i­cal consulting

 

 

Jörg Trem­mel
is man­ag­ing direc­tor of the FRFG. The philoso­pher and polit­i­cal sci­en­tist con­ducts research at the inter­face between phi­los­o­phy and pol­i­tics. Specif­i­cal­ly, he is cur­rent­ly con­cerned with top­ics in polit­i­cal philosophy/political the­o­ry, ethics, epis­te­mol­o­gy, and var­i­ous empir­i­cal polit­i­cal sci­ence issues.
His most impor­tant pub­li­ca­tions: Hand­book of Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jus­tice (2006); A The­o­ry of Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jus­tice (2012); Nor­ma­tive Polit­i­cal The­o­ry (2020).

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Office Team

Jörg Trem­mel
is respon­si­ble for the sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal of the FRFG (Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jus­tice Review), the Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jus­tice Award, and the Walk­shops of the FRFG. The main idea of the Walk­shops is 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.  The pre­vi­ous walk­shops took place on the top­ics “Cli­mate cri­sis” (110 km) and “Coal phase-out” (44 km), “Search for a final stor­age site for nuclear waste” (40 km) and “Social secu­ri­ty” (38 km).

 

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.

 

 

 

Lena Winz­er (project manager)
born in 2001, is cur­rent­ly in her final year of her MA (Hons) Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions and Legal Stud­ies degree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Aberdeen in Scot­land. While focus­ing on human rights and inter­na­tion­al insti­tu­tions in her stud­ies, she is also deeply involved in projects and activ­i­ties out­side of uni­ver­si­ty. She is the pres­i­dent and trea­sur­er of the Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al soci­ety, works as a research assis­tant for Lawyers with­out Bor­ders at uni­ver­si­ty and has recent­ly obtained the Youth Ambas­sador posi­tion at Safe Child Thai­land. She has pri­mar­i­ly delved into women’s rights on an inter­na­tion­al lev­el and exam­ined the ille­gal­i­ty and con­se­quences of the Russ­ian attack on Ukraine. Fur­ther­more, she has organ­ised fundrais­ing events, protests, and a “Write for Rights” event for Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al on campus.

 

 

 

 

 

Addi­tion­aly, the office team is always sup­port­ed by sev­er­al young and high­ly ded­i­cat­ed interns.

 

Ombudsperson

The ombudsper­son for the FRFG is Mr. Lars Gild­ner, Sys­temic Super­vi­sor M.A..
He can be con­tact­ed by phone: 49/163/3658553 and/or by email: lars.gildner@web.de.
Any­one who feels mis­treat­ed by the SRzG or has a com­plaint can con­tact Mr. Gildner.