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
General Manager of Operations
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)
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Rolf Henke
Member of the Board (Aviation), German Aerospace Center e.V.
Dr. Bernd Kisilowski
Head of Central Environmental Protection Germany, Airbus Operations GmbH
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
Clemens Neumann
Head of the Department Biobased Economy, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ringbeck
Managing Director, ricon GmbH
Gertrud Sahler
Head of Department Environment and Health, Pollution Control, Plant Safety and Traffic, Chemical Safety at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)
Prof. Dr. Daniela Thrän
Head of the Department for Bioenergy (BEN) at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Jenny Walther-Thoss
Senior Officer Sustainable Biomass & Standards, WWF Germany