Executive Board and Advisory Board
The board of aireg consists of three elected members and two presidents as representative board members. They are appointed by the General Assembly at the suggestion of the elected members.
The members of the Advisory Board are appointed by the General Assembly. They advise aireg and its executive board on important strategic issues and thus support the association in achieving its goals.
Executive board
Siegfried Knecht
Chairman of the Executive Board
Henrik Erämetsä
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Martin Kaltschmitt
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board
Kay Kratky
President, Industry and Aviation
Melanie Form
Member of the Board
Managing Director
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Aigner
President, Science and Research
Advisory board
Norbert Barthle
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Steffen Bilger
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)
Prof. Gernot Klepper, Ph.D.
Head of Research Department Environmental and Resource Economics at the Institute for World Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Dr. Joachim Buse
Managing Director, Adeptus Green Management GmbH
Dr. Bernd Kisilowski
Head of Central Environmental Protection Germany, Airbus Operations GmbH
Prof. Dr. Daniela Thrän
Head of the Department for Bioenergy (BEN) at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ringbeck
Managing Director, ricon GmbH
Prof. Jürgen Raps
Independent Aviation Expert and Consultant
Chiefpilot, Accountable Manager and Member of the Board Lufthansa Passenger Airline (retd. )
Dr. Anita Breyer
Head of Department Immission Control, Safety of Installations, Transport, Chemical Safety; Environmental Health at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
Chair of the DLR Executive Board,
German Aerospace Center
Lars Wagner
Member of the Executive Board, Chief Operating Officer,
MTU Aero Engines AG
Timo Bovi
Managing Director,
BRight Advisors GmbH
Thorsten Lange
Executive Vice President Renewable Aviation,
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