We protect the Baltic Sea

Our team

Office Staff

Thomas Winter

Thomas Winter

Managing Director

Thomas has been interested in the protection of the Baltic Sea ever since spending a semester in Gdańsk in 2005 as a part of his International Cultural and Business Studies curriculum in Passau. His diverse background includes positions as a Programme Director at the German National Academic Foundation, as Head of the Social Science Department at social EduTech startup Kiron, and as Product Owner at several tech startups. After his PhD in International Relations with a focus on Central East Europe, Thomas added an MBA in Sustainability Management in order to devote his time professionally to the protection of our environment.

Besides his job as BaltCF’s Managing Director, he volunteers as an environmental auditor for international music festivals and supports a German climate protection NGO.


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Katarzyna Fidler

Katarzyna Fidler

Project Manager

Katarzyna grew up in Gdańsk and Warsaw. During her studies of Landscape Planning the Technical University of Berlin she became involved in the application and management of environmental projects.

Presently she is looking back on 15 years of experience in the administration of transnational cooperation projects in the Baltic Sea region. Her thematic expertise lays in the maritime spatial planning, counteracting pollution and the challenges of underwater waste, but she is vitally interested in all aspects of marine environmental protection.



Gudrun Bürth

Gudrun Bürth

Office Assistant

As a Greifswald native, Gudrun was always interested in the protection of the environment of the Baltic Sea.

Due to several years of experience as an office assistant and assistant for marketing and sales for international operating companies, she speaks English fluently. Communication and solution-oriented acting are her strong characteristics.



Board of Directors

Alfred Schumm

Alfred Schumm

Chairman

WWF, Director of Innovation, Science, Technology & Solutions

 

Jörg Schmiedel

Jörg Schmiedel

Member

Landscape planner

Frank Häuser

Frank Häuser

Member

Lawyer

According to the statute, members of the Board of Directors are appointed as follows:

  • one member recommended by WWF Germany
  • one member recommended by BUND e.V. (Friends of the Earth Germany), section Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  • one member recommended by Nord Stream AG.

Board of Trustees

Dr. Dirk von Ameln, President

(Senior Advisor to CEO at Nord Stream 2 AG)

Stefan Schwill, Vice President

(Regional Chairman at NABU e.V. section Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)

Thomas Blaudszun, Member

(Vice president at BUND e.V. section Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)

Christoph Heinrich, Member

(Executive Board at WWF Germany)

Christian Pegel, Member

(Minister at the Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Digitalization of the State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)

According to the statute, members of the Board of Trustees are appointed as follows:

  • one member appointed by NABU e.V. (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), section Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  • one member appointed by WWF Germany
  • one member appointed by BUND e.V. (Friends of the Earth Germany), section Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  • one member appointed by Nord Stream AG
  • one member appointed by the State Chancellery of the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

Project Advisory Committee (PAC)

The BaltCF Project Advisory Committee (PAC) is an international body of experts, whose members have various backgrounds in science and implementation of environmental projects and who are based in different Baltic Sea countries.