Economic Advisory Board

AFO’s efforts are strengthened by the Economic Advisory Board, appointed by the University Rector`s Office. This advisory body supports, and provides comments on, the strategic planning done by the University’s Innovation Office.

It acts as an early warning system, spotting economic and business trends at an early stage. The Boards’s basic goals are to monitor transfer activities, point out trends in practice and act as an external jury for the University’s Transfer Prize.

The members of the Economic Advisory Board are:

•    Ludger Banken, Bürgermeister der Gemeinde Everswinkel
•    Dr. Carsten Cruse, Cruse Leppelmann Kognitionstechnik
•    Bernd Dirks, Dirks Billerbeck, Landesinnungsmeister der Steinmetze und Restaurateure
•    Dr. Dr. Hildegard Göhde, PARTEC
•    Dr. Jörg Hopfe, NRW.BANK
•    Prof. Dr. Ursula Nelles, Rektorin der WWU
•    Octavio K. Nüsse, Oco-Design
•    Herman-Josef Raatgering, Innovationsberater und Projektleiter der Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft für den Kreis Borken mbH
•    Dr. Tobias Rudolph, E.ON Gas Storage GmbH, Essen
•    Matthias Schwarte,  Kanzler der WWU
•    Martin Schröder M.A., Deutsche Botschaft Guatemala – Stadt
•    Thomas Timm, Hauptgeschäftsführer der Deutsch-Brasilianischen Industrie- und Handelskammer
•    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Wittkämper, Institut für Politikwissenschaft der WWU

AFO-fields of work

• Patents
• Business start-up
• Science communication
• Expositions and symposia
• AFO regional
• AFO international