The Committee

Our high-level committee consists of representatives of public, civil, political and scientific institutions. Comprising a broad expertise, this committee will annually identify currently relevant topics of the public and political debate on the future of Europe and evaluate the conception of the submitted research proposals with regard to the selection of our Charlemagne Prize Fellows.

Isabell Pfeiffer-Poensgen

Minister of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Michelle Müntefering

Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office

Karl-Heinz Lambertz

President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Malte Brettel

Vice-Rector for Industry and Business Relations at RWTH Aachen

Prof. Dr. Christine Neuhold

Head of the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University

Patrizia Heidegger

Director Global Policies and Sustainability of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

Dr. Jana Puglierin

Head of Berlin Office and Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

Dr. Katrin Böttger

Director of the Institute of European Politics, Berlin

Dr. Georgios Kolliarakis

Advisor for Research Strategy at DGAP, Berlin

Elmar Brok

Former Member of the European Parliament

Prof. Dr. Thomas Prefi

Representative of the Charlemagne Prize Foundation

Dr. Jürgen Linden

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Charlemagne Prize Society