The board
& governance
The International Supervisory Board is in charge of controlling the management of the LRE Foundation, its activities and finances.
The Historical Advisory Board defines the historical scope of the projects and supervises the content and research development.
Supervisory Board
Ed Kronenburg
Chairman of the Board, former diplomat
Rod Bedford
Board member, Trustee of the Royal British Legion
Herre Dijkema
Board member, Chair of the Audit Committee, Managing Director Tourism Veluwe Arnhem Nijmegen
Heleen Huisjes
Board member, Director of Visit Brabant
Marc Kocken
Board member, Member of the Audit Committee, Head of Sector Heritage and Public Engagement at Zeeland Heritage
Dietmar Nietan
Board member, Member of the German Bundestag
Taja Vovk van Gaal
Historical Advisory Board
Prof. dr. hab. Paweł Machcewicz
Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Prof. dr. Sönke Neitzel
University of Potsdam
Prof. dr. Phillips Payson O’Brien
University of Saint Andrews
Prof. dr. Richard Overy
University of Exeter
Prof. Dr. Katka Makhotina
University of Bonn
Prof. Dr. Kees Ribbons
National Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD
Prof dr. Olivier Wieviorka
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Prof. dr. Massimo de Leonardis
Dr. Benoît
Niederkorn
Patron & Ambassadors
Martin Schulz
Member of the German Bundestag & Former President of the European Parliament, Patron of the LRE Foundation and the Liberation Route Europe
Daniel Libeskind
Architect at Studio Libeskind, creator of the Vectors of memory marking the Liberation Route Europe trails.
