The International Centre for Traditional Irrigation in Europe Foundation (IZTB) is organised as follows:
Foundation: Prof. em. Dr Rolf Weingartner, Dr. Karina Liechti and Rudolf Haudenschild
Management: Werner Stirnimann
Board of Trustees:
Prof. em. Dr Rolf Weingartner, Thun (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
René Abgottspon, Baltschieder (Valais Bisses)
Anna Aeberhard, Aarwangen (Wässermatten Foundation)
Christine Badertscher, Madiswil (Oekonomisch Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft Bern)
Eric Brinckmann, Haaksbergen NL (Vloeiweiden Het Lankheet, also management team of the International Advisory Board)
Ruedi Haudenschild, Wangen a.A.
Pirmin Hilsendegen, Ottersheim (IG Queichwiesen, also management team of the International Advisory Board)
Dr. Karina Liechti, Bern (also management team of the International Advisory Board)
Marc Reuter, Sankt Vith BE (Prés d’Abissage, also management team of the International Advisory Board)
Prof Dr Rolf Tanner, Melchnau
Ingeborg Vonderstrass, Ehrenkirchen, Germany
If no country abbreviations are listed, the places mentioned above are localities in Switzerland. With the International Advisory Board, the IZTB is also broadly anchored at European level.
IZTB Foundation Board on 20 February 2025, supplemented by the management, from left to right: Rudolf Haudenschild, Anna Aeberhard, Markus Ischi, Christine Badertscher, Raimund Rodewald, Rolf Tanner, Werner Stirnimann (Managing Director), Uwe Kirschstein, Ingeborg Vonderstrass, Hans-Jürg Käser, Julia Schrade (Deputy Managing Director), missing are René Abgottspon, Eric Brinckmann and Rolf Weingartner. Picture © Alina Bevilacqua
IZTB Foundation Board at the foundation launch on 31 August 2022, from left to right: René Abgottspon, Raimund Rodewald, Markus Ischi, Ingeborg Vonderstrass, Hans-Jürg Käser, Christian Leibundgut (deceased on 20 November 2023), Anna Aeberhard, Christine Badertscher (Eric Brinckmann and Rudolf Haudenschild are missing), photo © IZTB