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

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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

Greg Irwin
Communications Officer

Sigalit Meidler-Waks
Research Associate

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, Dr. Dörte Eriskat, Dr. Andrea Dunai, 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.