The governing board holds responsibility for GGA Institute and decides on matters of significant importance.

The governing board has 11 members:

  1. Two representatives of the Federal State and of the State Lower Saxony, respectively;

  2. the head of the scientific advisory board;

  3. one representative of the Technical University Clausthal;

  4. two representatives of the joint state-federal committee for soil research;

  5. one representative of the board of the directors of the state geological surveys;

  6. one renowned person from industry;

  7. one renowned person from geosciences.

The specific tasks of the governing board are noted in the constitution of GGA Institute.

The present members of the governing board are:

Name Institution Function1 (s.a.)
Dr. M. Dworatzek RWE Dea AG, Hamburg 6
President Ltd. GD A. Forker Survey of Geology and Mining of Saxony Anhalt 5
MR Dr. A. Kollatschny Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony 1
MR Prof. Dr. D. Mager Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour 1
Prof. Dr. K. Mengel Technical University Clausthal, Institute of Mineralogy an Mineral Resources 3
RD R. Ollig Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Earth System Sciences 1
J. Wittenberg Ministry of Transport, Energy an Spatial Planning
of Nord Rhine-Westphalia		 4
Prof. Dr. H. Soffel Geophysics at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences 7
Prof. Dr. B. Urban University of Applied Sciences, Specialist area civil enineering water management end enviroment 7
J. Wittenberg Ministry of Economics, middle Classes and Energy
of Nord Rhine-Westphalia		 4
RD'in H. Worlitzsch, Head Ministry of Economics, Labour, and Transport of Lower Saxony 1