Management
![Dr. Henrike Hartmann](/sites/default/files/styles/veranstaltungsverteiler_zwischenhero_jpg/public/images/Henrike_Hartmann-8.jpeg?itok=45GbyL66)
Nico Herzog für VolkswagenStiftung
Dr. Henrike Hartmann is Deputy Secretary General and heads the Foundation’s Funding Department.
Career
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2021: Deputy Secretary General of the Foundation.
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2015: Head of the Funding Department and Member of the Executive Board
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2010-2015: Head of the team "People and Structures" within the funding department
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1998: Transfer to the Volkswagen Foundation as specialist for biomedicine and neuroscience
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1995-1998: Postdoctoral fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School/USA and research associate in pharmacology at the University of Frankfurt.
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1993: Doctorate in the field of psychopharmacology at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim/University of Heidelberg
- 1984-1989: Pharmacy studies in Freiburg
Committees (selection)
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Chairwoman of the Constance University Council
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Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Frankfurt
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Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institutes for Metabolism Research, for Biology of Aging, and for Plant Breeding Research, all in Cologne, Germany
![Mann im Anzug an einem hölzernen Treppengeländer](/sites/default/files/styles/veranstaltungsverteiler_zwischenhero_jpg/public/images/Dieter_Lehmann-18kl.jpg?itok=R5uND0Hi)
Nico Herzog für VolkswagenStiftung
Dieter Lehmann heads the Asset Management department.
Career
- Since 1999 Member of the Executive Board and Head of the Asset Management Department
- 1991-1999: Worked for DG BANK, including as a consultant in proprietary business and balance-sheet structure management for the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- 1990: Research assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the then Cooperative Bank, Berlin
- 1985-1989: Studies in economics with focus on finance in Berlin
Committees (selection)
- Head of the Asset Advisory Board of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future EVZ in Berlin
- Head of the Working Group on Foundation Assets and Real Estate at the Association of German Foundations
- Member of the Administrative Board of Stiftung Warentest, Berlin
- Member of the Board of the Rut and Klaus Bahlsen Foundation in Hanover
- Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PRISMA Investment GmbH in Frankfurt/M.
- Member of the Investment Advisory Board of the Generations Fund of the Free State of Saxony in Dresden
![Mann im Anzug](/sites/default/files/styles/veranstaltungsverteiler_zwischenhero_jpg/public/images/Otto_2.jpg?itok=ogVeKT6z)
Henning Otto heads the "Finance and Administration" department.
Career
- Member of the Executive Board and Head of the Finance and Administration Department
before:
- Member of the management board of a company in the food industry
- In the corporate banking business of a major bank
- Studies in business administration