Our board
Our Board is responsible for the strategic direction and financial integrity of the organisation. The Board works on an voluntary basis. It controls and supports the management of the association.
Dr. Stefan Heumann
Member of the Board
Stefan was elected to the board of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany in 2020. Stefan is a political scientist and founding managing director of Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT). Previously, he held various positions, including the last few years as a member of the board, helping to shape the further development of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung into a think tank at the intersection of society and technological change. His work at ADT focuses on the question of how we can use the opportunities of digitalization to strengthen democracy. He has advised politics and society on digital policy in various committees and functions. He is currently a member of the advisory board for the German Government’s Digital Strategy at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport.
Felix Reda
Member of the Board
Felix was elected to the board of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany in 2020. Felix is an expert in copyright law and has been Director of Developer Policy at GitHub since March 2024. He previously headed the “control ©” project at the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte. From 2014 to 2019, Felix was a Member of the European Parliament within the Greens/EFA group. Felix is an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a member of the Advisory Board of D64 - Center for Digital Progress.
Gabriele C. Klug
Treasurer
Gabriele has been elected member of OKF’s board and its Treasurer since 2020. Gabriele is Co-Chairwoman of the Wirtschaftsvereinigung der Grünen e.V. - Dialogforum für Wirtschaft - whose aim is to strengthen the dialog between business and politics. Gabriele Klug is a lawyer and spend many years in politics and state administration and on local level. 2010-2018 she held the position as Vice Mayor and Treasurer of the city of Cologne and in charge of the municipal enterprise portfolio. During that time Klug designed an urban approach towards sustainability in municipal finance including the development of infrastructure in ecological transformation. She was member of the board of Transparency International Germany until 2019. Klug is specialized in sustainable public finance.
Kristina Klein
Chairwoman of the Board
Kristina is member of the board at Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland (OKF) since November 2017 and served as its Treasurer between 2017 and 2020. She joined OKF in August 2014 as CEO of the organization. Before moving to Germany, Kristina was the Peace Building Fund Coordinator at UNHCR and Finance Associate at the Danish Refugee Council in Myanmar. Prior to that, she worked as a Senior Program Manager at Carnegie Europe in Brussels and as a Program Manager at Körber Foundation’s Bergedorf Round Table. She is a certified Usability & User Experience Professional (Artop - Humboldt Universität Berlin) and holds a masters in American studies and sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lea Gimpel
Member of the Board
Lea was elected to the board of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany in 2020. She works for the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) as Director for AI and Country Engagement. The DPGA was founded in 2020 on the initiative of the United Nations and supports investments in and the use of digital public goods such as open-source software, open AI models and open data with a focus on developing and emerging countries. Previously, Lea co-led a project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which supports developing countries in using artificial intelligence by developing open training datasets and open AI models and drafting ethical AI guidelines with partners. Lea teaches a practical course on digital development cooperation at the Hertie School in Berlin. She is currently a member of the advisory board of the Initiative on AI technologies for Civil Climate Action of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection and co-chair of a working group of the United Nations DPI Safeguards Initiative.