THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
The Management Board directs the channel’s operations and reports regularly to the General Assembly. It has four members: the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, the Programme Director and the Administrative Director, each appointed for a four-year term of office. Representatives of ARTE France and ARTE Deutschland may be invited to attend extended meetings of the Management Board.

Chairperson:
Véronique CAYLA
Vice-Chairman:
Dr. Gottfried LANGENSTEIN
Programme Director:
Alain LE DIBERDER
Administrative Director:
Armin BREGER


THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly, which meets four times a year, makes fundamental decisions of strategic importance to the channel, approves the Business Plan and not only appoints members but also top managerial staff to ARTE G.E.I.E. The twelve delegates – six German and six French – represent the two members of the ARTE Group. The associate partners, RTBF, TVP, and ORF, have an advisory role.

Chairman: Prof. Markus SCHÄCHTER
Former President of ZDF, Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Vice-Chairman: Rémy PFLIMLIN
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of France Télévisions

• Representatives of ARTE France
Rémy PFLIMLIN, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of France Télévisions
Laurence FRANCESCHINI, Director of the Media and Cultural Industries Direction (DGMIC), Ministry of Culture and Communication
Solenne LEPAGE, Sub-Director at the Government Shareholding Agency (APE - Agence des Participations de l’Etat), Ministry of Finances
Eric GARANDEAU, Chief Executive Officer of the National Cinematography and Animated Image Centre (CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée)
Nicolas SEYDOUX, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Gaumont Productions, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ARTE France
Anne DURUPTY, Chief Executive Officer of ARTE France

• Representatives of ARTE Deutschland
Prof. Markus SCHÄCHTER, former President of ZDF, Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Peter BOUDGOUST, President of SWR, Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Monika PIEL, President of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Thomas KLEIST, President of SR
Dr. Frank D. FREILING, Director of International Affairs at the ZDF
Peter WEBER, Head of Legal Services at the ZDF



• Associate Members in an advisory capacity
RTBF: Jean-Paul PHILIPPOT, General Manager
TVP: Juliuzs BRAUN, President
ORF: Dr. Alexander WRABETZ, Chief Executive Officer


PROGRAMME COMMITEE
The Programme Committee sets the channel’s editorial policy and drafts the programme agenda for submission to the General Assembly. The Assembly convenes once a month in the Strasbourg headquarters, studies members’ and headquarters’ proposals and decides which of these programmes will be screened on ARTE. The Programme Committee is chaired by the Director of Programmes and includes three further representatives from the headquarters in Strasbourg, two representatives each from the French and German members and, in an advisory capacity, a representative from each associate partner.

Chairman: Alain LE DIBERDER, Programme Director

• Representatives of ARTE GEIE
Alain LE DIBERDER, Director of Programmes, Member of the Management Board of ARTE GEIE
Florian HAGER, Deputy Programme Director, TV/Web Programme Planning Director
Marco NASSIVERA, News Director
Dr. Markus NIEVELSTEIN, Knowledge Department Director

• Representatives of ARTE France
Vincent MESLET, Editorial Director
Alain WIEDER, Deputy Director for Projects and Broadcasting Coordination

• Representatives of ARTE Deutschland
Peter LATZEL, Managing Director of ARTE Deutschland, ARTE
ARD Co-ordinator
Wolfgang BERGMANN, Managing Director of ARTE Deutschland, ARTE
ZDF Co-ordinator

• European Partners in an advisory capacity
ERT: Ariana MEINTANA, Deputy Head of International Coproductions Dpt.
RTBF : Carine BRATZLAVSKY
ORF : Petra GRUBER
TVP : N.N.
SRG SSR : Patrizia PESKO
YLE : N.N.


PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Advisory Programme Committee meets four times a year and advises the Management Board and the General Assembly on programming issues. Its members, eight from Germany and eight from France, are leading personalities from the cultural, scientific and political spheres. The associate partners participate in an advisory capacity.


Chairpersons: Elections in February 2013


• French Members
Béatrice ANGRAND, Secretary General of the French-German Youth Office (OFAJ/DFJW)
Françoise BENHAMOU, Economist and Professor at the Universities of Paris XIII
Jean-Etienne COHEN-SÉAT, Publisher, Consultant of Chief Executive Officer, Hachette Livres
Bernard FAIVRE D'ARCIER, Former senior civil servant in the Ministry of Culture
Dan FRANCK, Writer and scriptwriter
Aurélie LUNEAU, Historian und Radio Producer
Raoul PECK, Film Director, Chairman of the Management Board of the French State Film School La Fémis
Monique VEAUTE, Founder of the Romaeuropa-arte e cultura Foundation


• German Members
Torsten COTT
Member of the MDR Broadcasting Council
OKJ Radio Jena’s Director
Eva HUBERT
Member of and delegate from the ZDF Supervisory Committee
Managing Director of the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Wolfgang JÄGER
ZDF Broadcasting Council
Principal (retired), University of Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Manfred RAGATI
Delegate from the ZDF Supervisory Committee
Former President of the AWO Workers' Welfare Association
Prof. Martin RENNERT
Member of the RBB Broadcasting Council
President of the Berlin University of the Arts
Dr. Wolfgang STÖCKEL
Member of the BR Broadcasting Council
Chairman of the Bavarian Journalists Association
Journalist
Hans-Peter STRENGE
Delegate from the NDR Broadcasting Council
Former NEK-Synod President
Dr.h.c. Hans ZEHETMAIR
ZDF Broadcasting Council
Former Bavarian Minister of State and Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation


• Associate Members
ORF: N.N.
RTBF: Carine BRATZLAVSKY
TVP: N.N.


SUPERVISORY BOARD OF ARTE FRANCE
Chairman: Bernard-Henri LEVY, Philosopher und author
Vice-Chairman: Nicolas SEYDOUX, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Gaumont Productions


PROGRAMM COMMITTEE OF ARTE DEUTSCHLAND
The Programme Committee of ARTE Deutschland meets four times a year: its members, representative of cultural life in Germany, advise the Board and the General Assembly on programming issues. Each ARD member station appoints a Programme Committee member, with the ZDF appointing an equal number of committee members. The chairman of the Programme Committee reports once a year to the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland.

Chairman: Dr. Michael-Andreas BUTZ, ZDF
Vice-Chairperson: Antje SCHREINER, RB