Team Working Together in a Spirit of Trust

Chairman

Dr. Henneke Lütgerath is a trained banker and fully qualified lawyer. Following both bar exams and doctorate, Dr. Lütgerath started his career at the Hamburg-based bank M.M. Warburg & CO in 1985, initially holding a variety of positions within the corporate customer division of M.M. Warburg & CO.

From 2001 to 2008, he managed subsidiaries of the bank in Luxembourg and Berlin. Since 2009, he has been a partner of M.M. Warburg & CO. On January 1, 2017, Dr. Lütgerath was appointed as Chairman of the Executive Board of the Joachim Herz Stiftung by the Board of Trustees.

Member of the Executive Board

After training as a bank professional, Ulrich Müller studied Business Administration, graduating in 1996. He then worked at one of Germany’s largest insurance groups as an expert on matters such as financial planning and control as well as risk management. Subsequently he then spent three years as Head of Internal Accounting at a family office near Munich before joining one of Germany’s largest travel insurers. In his position as head of department, he was responsible for strategic asset allocation. At the same time, he lectured on capital investments in insurance companies at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In 2007, Mr. Müller joined CORO Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, which was run by Joachim and Petra Herz. When the Foundation was established in 2011, he was made Head of Investments, Finance, Organization, and HR. On October 1, 2014, Mr. Müller was made a Member of the Executive Board of the Joachim Herz Stiftung.

Member of the Executive Board

Dr. Nina Lemmens held various positions at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) starting in 1997 and was most recently Director of the North America Office in New York. She holds a doctorate in art history and has many years of experience in the field of academic leadership, developing and managing numerous transatlantic and international scholarship programs.

She was appointed Member of the Executive Board of the Joachim Herz Stiftung as of October 1, 2018. In this role, she is responsible for the three central program areas – Science, Economics, and Personal Development – in which the Foundation performs its operational project work.