Current Advisory Board

Laurence des Cars
President of the Musée du Louvre
Special expertise in the subject areas: Universal museum, Europe, international museum engagement

Didier Houénoudé
Art historian
Special expertise in the subject areas: African art, decolonisation

Richard Kurin
Advisor to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Special expertise in the subject areas: Cultural property protection and cultural heritage policy worldwide

Glenn D. Lowry
Director of The Museum of Modern Art
Special expertise in the subject areas: Art museum, digitality, international cooperation, expansion of resources

Engelbert Lüdtke-Daldrup
Former State Secretary at the Federal and State Governments of Berlin
Special expertise in the subject areas: Building and renovation, architecture and urban planning, realisation of major public projects

Dirk Messner
President of the Federal Environment Agency
Special expertise in the subject areas: Sustainability, science management

Christoph Möllers
Legal scholar
Special expertise in the subject areas: artistic freedom, code of conduct, media law

Richard Ovenden
Head of Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM), University of Oxford
Special expertise in the subject areas: Libraries, digitisation, interdisciplinarity

Barbara Plankensteiner
Director Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK)
Special expertise in the subject areas: Colonial contexts, decolonisation

Sandra Richter
Director of the German Literature Archive Marbach
Special expertise in the subject areas: Literature, libraries and archives

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
Director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw
Special expertise in the subject areas: History of East-Central Europe

Michael Yahgulanaas
Artist, environmental activist and former spokesperson for the Haider First Nations (Canada) and spokesperson for the Global Cultural Assembly at the Humboldt Forum
Special expertise in the subject areas: Indigeneity, sustainability

Olaf Zimmermann
Managing Director of the German Cultural Council
Special expertise in the subject area: civil society