You have been a member of the board of the Cusanuswerk scholarship body’s gifted education foundation since 2008, as well as its chairman since 2011. Incidentally, there used to be long-standing ties between the Cusanuswerk and the Bundesbank – you took over as chairman back then from Hans Tietmeyer, the former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
I’ve had the numbers checked: since you became a member of the foundation’s board, more than 3,000 students have been sponsored. And at the RWI, too, you helped to create an environment in which the next generation of academics can reach their full potential. The great many RWI employees who submit their PhD thesis each year attest to your achievements.