Adrian Schlegel

Board member

 

Profession

Social scientist. Evaluator for public and civil society environmental and climate projects. Previously worked as a freelancer in political education.

 

Areas of interest for voluntary and political engagement

Environmental justice, inequality in the global political economy, coloniality in international cooperation, green colonialism, democratization, authoritarianism and bureaucracy, epistemic justice, food sovereignty

Katharina Debring

Chairperson of the Board

 

Profession

Advisor at the children's rights organization terre des hommes in the area of supply chains and raw materials with a focus on mica

 

Areas of interest for voluntary and political engagement

Human rights and children's rights in global supply chains, sustainable transport transition, Buen Vivir, fair trade and gender mainstreaming

 

 

Dr. Hildegard Scheu

Board member

 

Profession

Political scientist and graduate psychologist, active pensioner since 2022, horse-assisted support and therapy for children and young people (since 2018), lecturer, 40 years in development cooperation, including 20 years as a development policy consultant, trainer and expert as co-owner of a consulting firm.

Areas of interest for voluntary and political engagement

Climate and resource justice; fair trade and labor relations in the global world; human rights and sustainability - due diligence in global supply chains, focus on clothing and textiles; gender; psychosocial support and social integration in crisis and war contexts, civil conflict transformation, animal-assisted therapy.

Jens Chorus

Treasurer

 

Profession

Jens Chorus is a product manager at RaiseNow, responsible for the fundraising automation product line, which integrates RaiseNow with various ERP and CRM systems. Jens has +10 years of professional experience in the non-profit space within a software development context.

Prior to joining RaiseNow, Jens started his career working as a developer before transitioning to project management and later to team lead and branch management positions at RaiseNow.

Other areas of interest

Privately, Jens has been engaged in several grassroots organisations since his early university days.

Michael Müller-Puhlmann

Board member

 

Profession

Economist, for a long time until retirement in 2021 in the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs (as a consultant and then head of department for labor market policy and vocational training).

 

Areas of interest for voluntary and political engagement

Transforming our resource-consuming, environmentally destructive and inequality-creating global economic system: Regulation of the most powerful private players in international capital markets, enforcing due diligence obligations regarding human rights and the environment by companies, tax justice, climate justice including fair financing by main polluters.

Dr. Claus Neuberger

Fellow Tax Justice

claus.neuberger@weed-online.org

Profession

As an economist, he has worked as a consultant since 1989. After ten years in a large management consultancy, he worked freelance in the areas of strategy, leadership and responsibility for European and American institutions. Active as a lecturer at universities and with various institutes and projects in business and social ethics.

Areas of interest for voluntary and political engagement

Limiting power of wealth, corporate power and lobbying

Markus Henn

Honorary representative in the German Tax Justice Network

steuergerechtigkeit@weed-online.org