Board and Senior Staff

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)

born in 1989, is research assis­tant in the evi­dence-based pol­i­cy advi­so­ry depart­ment of the Leib­niz Insti­tute for Finan­cial Research SAFE. As behav­ioral 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 at the invi­ta­tion of Nuffield Col­lege. Owing to his spe­cial­i­sa­tion in finance at the Uni­ver­si­ty of St Andrews, Goethe Uni­ver­si­ty Frank­furt and Copen­hagen Busi­ness School, the econ­o­mist gained expe­ri­ence in the finan­cial indus­try and busi­ness con­sult­ing. Fur­ther­more, he is a Fel­low of the Roy­al Soci­ety of Arts.

Nicole Agit
born in 1995, stud­ied social sci­ences (BA) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mar­burg, Ger­many. She focused on soci­o­log­i­cal the­o­ries, social struc­ture and con­flict analy­sis, and meth­ods of empir­i­cal social research. She ded­i­cat­ed her bach­e­lor the­sis to the top­ic “Care work and migra­tion — A gen­der-soci­o­log­i­cal analy­sis of Euro­pean care chains using the exam­ple of Pol­ish live-in care in Germany”.

Spe­cialisms: care pol­i­cy, health pol­i­cy, cli­mate policy

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.

Spe­cialisms: health pol­i­cy, men­tal health, the 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 direc­tor and man­ag­ing direc­tor of the Insti­tute for Future Stud­ies and Tech­nol­o­gy Assess­ment in Berlin since 1981, mem­ber of the Ener­gy Advi­so­ry Board of the Berlin Sen­ate since 1988, sci­en­tif­ic direc­tor of the Inter­na­tion­al Build­ing Exhi­bi­tion Emsch­er Park of North Rhine-West­phalia since 1989, direc­tor of the Sec­re­tari­at for Future Research in Gelsenkirchen since 1990 and chair­man of the Com­mit­tee for Emis­sion Con­trol of the State of Bran­den­burg since 1993. He wrote cir­ca 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 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 head­ed until 2017. He was also Full Pro­fes­sor of Envi­ron­men­tal and Tech­ni­cal Soci­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Stuttgart. In addi­tion to his involve­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Stuttgart, Renn was co-founder of the DIALOGIK research insti­tute. He was and is a mem­ber of numer­ous impor­tant com­mit­tees, includ­ing the Chair­man of the Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Advi­so­ry Board of the State of Baden-Würt­tem­berg from 2006 to 2012. Prof. Renn is (co-)author of numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions in the field of tech­nol­o­gy and risk sociology.

Project Manager

Jörg Trem­mel (project man­ag­er “walk­shops”)

Dr. Dr. Jörg Trem­mel super­vis­es the “walk­shops” of the FRFG. The main idea is that learn­ing can hap­pen while you are walk­ing (thus the com­bi­na­tion of the words “work­shop” and “walk” = “walk­shop”). The learn­ing is done with the help of audi­to­ry teach­ing and learn­ing mate­ri­als dur­ing a hike last­ing sev­er­al days. Mov­ing around in dif­fer­ent land­scapes in the course of mul­ti-day walks cre­ates a frame­work in which the fol­low­ing didac­tic mod­ules are used:
1) the cur­ricu­lum of audi­to­ry learn­ing mate­ri­als lis­tened to while walking.
2) the vis­it of learn­ing places locat­ed on the route
3) evening dis­cus­sion events in dif­fer­ent cities

Office Manager and Assistant to the Board

Ina Kukuk

Ina Kukuk is the office man­ag­er and assis­tant to the board. She holds a magister’s degree in geog­ra­phy and tourism with a focus on busi­ness administration/marketing and lan­guages. Before apply­ing to the Foun­da­tion for the Rights of Future Gen­er­a­tions, she man­aged the Human Resources and Foun­da­tion Man­age­ment depart­ments in a start-up work­ing in the area of devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion. She also trained as an online edi­tor and vol­un­teered to man­age and accom­pa­ny com­mu­ni­ca­tion projects. After her stud­ies, Ina worked as an Inter­na­tion­al Man­age­ment Trainee and employ­ee in var­i­ous Euro­pean coun­tries in the tourism com­pa­ny TUI Group.

Pia Krug is a vol­un­teer and staff mem­ber in the foun­da­tion 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. .