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:
Dr. Christoph Hauser
Administrative Director:
Victor Rocaries


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
President of ZDF, Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Vice-Chairman: Rémy PFLIMLIN
President of France Télévisions

• Representatives of ARTE France
Rémy PFLIMLIN, President of France Télévisions
Laurence FRANCESCHINI, Director of the Media and Cultural Industries Direction (DGMIC), Ministry of Culture and Communication
Alexis KOHLER, Director the Government Shareholding Agency (APE - Agence des Participations de l’Etat), Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment
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, President of ZDF until February 2012, Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Peter BOUDGOUST, President of SWR, Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Lutz MARMOR, President of NDR
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: Dr. Christoph HAUSER, Programme Director

• Representatives of ARTE GEIE
Dr. Christoph HAUSER, Director of Programmes, Member of the Management Board of ARTE GEIE
Emmanuel SUARD, Deputy director of Programmes, Head of Programme Planning and Media Research
Pascal GUIMIER, Head of News
Olaf GRUNERT, Head of Development and Events Department

• Representatives of ARTE France
Vincent MESLET , Project Management Director
Alain WIEDER, Deputy Project Management Director

• Representatives of ARTE Deutschland
Dr. Klaus WENGER, 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 : Urs FITZE
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.

Chairman: Jean Etienne COHEN-SÉAT, Publisher, Consultant of Chief Executive Officer, Hachette Livres
Vice Chairman: Dr. h. c. Hans ZEHETMAIR, ZDF Broadcasting Council, Former Bavarian Minister of State and Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation


• 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
Hind MEDDEB, Filmmaker and journalist
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
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Wolfgang JÄGER,
ZDF Broadcasting Council
Principal (retired), University of Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Werner LOHMANN
Member of the WDR Broadcasting Council
Principal (retired), Cologne Academy of Music,
President of the Regional Music Council Nordrhein-Westfalen
Thomas MANN
Member of the HR Broadcasting Council
Member of the European Parliament
Wolfgang MARR
Member of the MDR Broadcasting Council
Journalist
Vice Chairman of the Thuringian Office of the German Association of Journalists

Prof. Michael SCHMID-OSPACH
Member of the ZDF Broadcasting Council
Journalist
Dr. Wolfgang STÖCKEL
Member of the BR Broadcasting Council
Chairman of the Bavarian Journalists Association
Journalist
Andrea URBAN
Member of the ZDF Broadcasting Council
Director, Youth Protection Office of Lower Saxony
Dr.h.c. Hans ZEHETMAIR
ZDF Broadcasting Council
Former Bavarian Minister of State and Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation

• Associate Members
ORF: Dr. Peter PAWLOWSKY
RTBF: Carine BRATZLAVSKY
TVP: N.N.


SUPERVISORY BOARD OF ARTE FRANCE
Chairman: Bernard-Henri Lévy, 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: Hans-Peter Strenge, NDR
Vice-Chairman: Dr. Michael-Andreas Butz, ZDF