Foundation Structure
JDCRP Foundation is comprised of:
Board of Trustees
Executive Board
Council of Partner Organizations
Principal Staff and Consultants
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees advises, supports and monitors the Executive Board pursuant to the foundation’s statutes, in order to fulfill the will of the founders as effectively as possible.
Members:
Rüdiger Mahlo, Chair
Representative of the Claims Conference in Germany
Monica Dugot
Attorney and global art professional with a focus on Nazi looted art claims, dispute resolution, and restitution, formerly International Director of Restitution at Christie’s and Deputy Director of New York State Banking Department’s Holocaust Claims Processing Office
Dr. Zsuzsanna Toronyi
Director, Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
Dr. Herbert Winter
Commercial law attorney in Zurich, former President of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, former vice president of the World Jewish Congress and the European Jewish Congress
Executive Board
The Executive Board conducts the running business of the foundation according to the foundation’s objective as well as the resolutions of the Board of Trustees and statutory laws.
Members:
Deidre Berger, Chair
Former American Jewish Committee Senior European Affairs Advisor and Director of the AJC Berlin Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations
Dr. Wesley Fisher, Deputy Chair
Director of Research, The Claims Conference and World Jewish Restitution Organization
Council of Partner Organizations
The Council of Partner Organizations supports the Executive Board with its advice. The Council of Partner Organizations may develop recommendations towards the realization of the Foundation’s objectives.
Members:
Filip Strubbe
Archives générales du Royaume, Archives de l’État en Belgique
Prof. Dr. Emile Schrijver
Association of European Jewish Museums
Dr. Andrea Hänger
Bundesarchiv, Germany
Dr. Thomas Kirchner
Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, France
Richard Aronowitz
Christie’s
t.b.a.
Commission pour l’indemnisation des victimes de spoliations, France
Dr. Andrea Baresel-Brand
Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Germany
Juliette Trey
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, France
Dr. Pia Schölnberger
Kommission für Provenienzforschung beim Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, Austria
Bart Eeman
Ministère des Affaires économiques, Belgium
David Zivie
Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945, Ministère de la Culture, France
Dr. Sylvia Naylor
National Archives and Records Administration, U.S.
Lucian Simmons
Sotheby’s
Michael Levy
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Germany
Advisory Council to the Board of Trustees
The Advisory Council to the Board of Trustees supports the Board of Trustees.
Members to be announced.
Principal Staff
Jonathan Blok
IT and Data Officer
Ariela Braunschweig
Researcher, Documentation of Persecuted Jewish Artists
Lena Ringleb
Senior Strategy Director
Dr. Ingo Techmeier
Head of Finance and Administration
Anne Uhrlandt
Research and Documentation Officer
The invaluable assistance of the following persons is gratefully acknowledged: Alexandra Cosma, Professor Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister, Professor Dr. Meike Hopp, Professor Dr. Felix Naumann, Malgorzata Quinkenstein, Professor Dr. Michael Seadle, Idan Tobias, Dr. Ruth J. Weinberger, and Johannes Wöhler.