Tübingen University Board meets for 100th time

Left to right: Executive Vice-President Andreas Rothfuß, Christiane Neumann, Lena Ganschow, Ernst Hafen, Bernhard Sibold, Peter Grathwohl, Oliver Kohlbacher, Heinrich Bülthoff, President Karla Pollmann, Ingrid Hamm, Jacob Bühler, Karin Amos, Irmgard Männlein-Robert missing in the photo: Michael Bolle, Saskia Biskup, Heike Oberlin - Monique Scheer The University of Tübingen's Board of Trustees met for the 100th time on Tuesday. Since 2000, the Board has provided advice and oversight on strategic issues in all areas of the University. The Board is made up of seven external and four internal members and has been chaired since 2018 by Bernhard Sibold, the former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank's head office in Baden-Württemberg. On Tuesday, the science journalist and presenter Lena Ganschow attended the anniversary meeting as a guest - she is to become a member of the Tübingen University Board of Trustees on December 1. She replaces Christiane Neumann, former executive director of the Leibniz Association, whose term of office has ended after nine years. University boards were introduced in almost all German states from 1998 onwards following changes to higher education law. External Board members - usually appointed from business, politics, culture, or other research institutions - bring an outside perspective to the developments of a university.