Governance bodies

The governance bodies of the institute are the Board of Trustees, the Principal (Director) and the Scientific Advisory Board.

Board of Trustees

• Dr. Tim Metje
  Chairperson
  Saxon State Ministry of Science, Arts and Tourism
• Almuth Draeger
  Vice Chairperson
  Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
• Prof. Dr. Roswitha Böhm
  Dresden University of Technology
• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Wendelin Strubelt
  Bonn

Principal (Director)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Wolfram (also Chair of Spatial Development and Transformation, TU Dresden)

Scientific Advisory Board

• Prof. Dr. Annika Mattissek
  Chairperson
  University of Freiburg
  Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsgeographie und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
  Member since 01/01/2018
• Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst
  Vice Chairperson
  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  Chair of Sustainable Landscape Development
  Member since 01/06/2021
• Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard
  Technische Universität Dresden
  Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information
  Chair of Geoinformatics
  Member since 01/06/2019
• Prof. Dr. Izabela Mironowicz
  Politechnika Gdańska (Gdańsk University of Technology)
  Faculty of Architecture, Chair in Urban Design and Regional Planning
  Member since 01/06/2019
• Prof. Dr. Merritt Polk
  University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  Faculty of Social Science
  Head of Department der School of Global Studies
  Member since 01/07/2020
• Prof. Dr. Holger Wallbaum
  Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
  Chair of Sustainable Building
  Member since 01/06/2021
• Prof. Dr. Eveline van Leeuwen
  Wageningen University & Research
  Department of Social Sciences
  Subdivision Urban Economics
  Member since 01/10/2021
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Glade
  University of Vienna
  Department of Geography and Regional Research
  Member since 01/07/2023