Board of Trustees

Institute

Following you find a list of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, W. G. Kerckhoff Institute, as well as the William G. Kerckhoff Foundation for Scientific Research and Education, Bad Nauheim.

The members of the Board of Trustees comprises of offspring of the Kerckhoff family, members of the Hessian Ministry for Finance and Economics, members of the Max Planck Institute and Hessian universities as well as of representatives from the economy and media.

Members of the Board of Trustees during the period 2025 - 2028

Name

Facility

Dr. h.c. Volker Bouffier

Chairman

Prime Minister off duty

Elmar Damm

Ministerialdirigent
Hessian State Ministry for Finances
Wiesbaden

Dr. Lutz Ehnert

Internist, Bad Nauheim

William Kerckhoff-Young Jr., Ph.D.

Medicines Research Centre
GlaxoSmithKline

Klaus Kress

Vice Chairman

Mayor of the Town of Bad Nauheim

Professor Dr. Ralf Kuhlen

Chief Medical Officer Fresenius

Dr. Matthias Leder

General Manager
IHK Gießen-Friedberg

Katrin Lehnheiser

Hessian Ministry of Science and Culture, Wiesbaden

Professor Dr. Kathrina Lorenz

President of Justus Liebig University Giessen

Professor Dr. Jochen Maas

Vice-President of the House of Pharma & Healthcare

Ann McLain

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Lucia Puttrich

Former Minister of State

Volker Remmele

Chair

Retired bank management board member, Bad Nauheim

Professor Dr. Enrico Schleiff

President of Goethe University Frankfurt

Dr. Claudia Walther

Former Managing Director Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds

Annette Wetekam

Member of the state parliament

Prof. Dr. Matthias Willems

President of the TH Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Friedberg