dreyer foundation

BOARD AND COMMITTEE
 The management bodies of the Foundation are the Board, which is composed of the founders, and the Committee, which includes the founders and four additional members. The Committee advises and supports the Board in all undertakings of the Foundation.

       
   
 
Regina Schuh and Gisbert Dreyer are both architects. They live and work in Munich, where
Regina Schuh
worked as a freelance architect until 1999. Ever since, her main activities have focused on her family, the Foundation, and her own education in naturopathy with an emphasis on phytotherapy and shamanism, which she intends to use in the Foundation's work.		   Gisbert Dreyer,
managing partner of G.Dreyer Planungsgesellschaft m.b.H., is a real estate and project developer.

In recognition of the Foundation's work in Burkina Faso, Mr. Dreyer was awarded that country's National Order (Chevalier de l'ordre national) on December 12, 2004.
       
 
       
Dr. Anette Lamberts
is an attorney serving as corporate communications manager. Her special interest is the care and education of third-world children.		   Professor Michael Bohnet
is a retired department head
of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Collaboration and Development (BMZ) and serves currently as special emissary for the new EU countries.

Awarded the German Federal Order of Merit 1st Class by President Rau on November 16, 2002.

Professor of Economics, University of Duisburg- Essen, habilitation in 1990.

Chief negotiator of the BMZ at seven global conferences 1992-1997 (Rio, Cairo, Beijing, Barbados, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Rome).

Author of many books, including: “Das Nord- Südproblem“ [The North-South Problem], Piper Verlag Munich, 5 editions.

1979-2002: employed by the BMZ

1974-1978: manager of the Department of Developing Countries at the IFO Institute of Economic Research, Munich.		 Dr. Manfred Schäfers
Dob August 3, 1961 in Münster, Westphalia. Childhood, Primary and secondary education in Bonn and nearby St. Augustin.

Following his high-school graduation, performed his (1980) civil service in the retirement home of the Workers’ Welfare Association. Then studied economics. After his basic courses in Bonn, he was attracted by the pleasant, college-town ambience and almost Mediterranean summer climate of Tübingen.

Following his master's degree there in 1987, he remained at the university and worked with Professor Joachim Starbatty on a research project about the EC's technology policy.

In 1992 he earned his doctorate with a thesis on the European experiment of using large sums of money to balance differences in prosperity within the EC. Internship at the "Stuttgarter Zeitung", a daily.

Joined the business-editorial staff at the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" in January 1993. Started out as one of the layout and production people for general business news.

Posted to Bonn as a reporter in September 1996.

Presently stationed in Berlin, he writes about financial policy and development aid. 		 

Professor Paul L.G. Vlek
Dr. Paul Vlek is managing director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn.

With a scientific education in tropical soil science, which he had received in the Netherlands and the US, he heads the research concerning sustainable use of natural resources in the tropics and investigates effects and interactions related to the development process.

The ZEF sponsors about 150 doctoral candidates with a wide range of scientific qualifications who are conducting research and development projects in every part of the tropics. Prior to his appointment at the ZEF, Professor Vlek was Chairman of Tropical Agriculture at the University of Göttingen and, before that, Charter Director of the International Research Center for Soil Fertility in Togo, West Africa.

With his nearly 200 scientific publications, Professor Vlek is a world-renowned expert, and he also sits on several influential committees and supervisory boards in Germany and abroad.