Board members of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation
Peter Lehmann – President
Dr. Marianne Knecht – Vice-President
Jean Tercier – Member
Dr. Blaise Pascal Mulhauser – Member
Dr. Ilka Herbinger – Member
Prof. Dr. Klaus Zuberbühler - Member
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation Germany e.V.
Dr. Julia Riedel – President
Hedwige Boesch-Achermann – Vice-President
Marzela Scheller – Treasurer
WCF- scientific committee*
review yearly technical reports of scientific activities
Dr. Ilka Herbinger - Conservationist - Biologist - Management - Deputy Director & Director Environmental and Social Safeguards Legacy Landscapes Fund
Prof. Roman Wittig – Cognition and Behavior - Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Lyon
Dr. Tobias Deschner - Director Ozouga Chimpanzee Project
Dr. Cat Hobaiter – Reader Origins of Mind, University of St Andrews
Dr. Lydia Luncz - Behaviour - Lise Meitner' W2 Professor and Independent Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Anja Widdig – Behavioral Ecolology – University of Leipzig Institute of Biology
Scientific Consultants*
participate regularly in WCF scientific activities since March 2024
Prof. Dr. Hjalmar Kühl – Ecologist - Senckenberg Museum Natural History Görlitz – Zoology
Dr. Roger Mundry – Statistics - Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH Göttingen
Dr. Mimi Arandjelovic – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Dr. Tilo Burghardt – Computer Vision & Machine Learning, University of Bristol
Legal advice*
provide advice and support on contracts, complaints, and legal procedures
Mélanie Käser - Lawyer – Zurich
* All scientific consultants and committee members contribute their expertise and time on a voluntary basis.