The Board of Directors
The board of directors consists of three persons. The members were elected at the last annual General Assembly meeting of CSSP e.V.
Alexandra Schwarz-Schilling
Alexandra Schwarz-Schilling is a founding member and chairperson of the board of CSSP. She is an economist and a psychologist and, since 2002, the founder and director of Coaching Spirale GmbH in Berlin, a center for coaching and coaching education. She is also the author of two books. She is a senior coach and teaching coach certified by the Deutsche Coaching Verband (DCV) e.V. She is the founder of Living Gaia, a holistic healing biotope in Brazil, and of Living Gaia e.V., an NGO working with the Huni Kuin people in the Brazilian Amazon.
Manuela Mangold
Manuela Mangold has been a member of the board of directors at CSSP since December 2011. She holds the position of secretary (Schriftführerin). In 2008, she began working at the CSSP – Berlin Center for Integrative Mediation as a consultant to the honorary president Dr. Schwarz-Schilling. She holds a diploma in fine arts, a Bachelor’s degree in American studies and history, a Master’s degree in American studies, and has completed a one-year training course as a mediator. In addition, she has worked as a program organizer and consultant for international student programs, for example with the University of Washington, Seattle USA, on the topics of right-wing nationalism, education, and migration.
Christoph Lüttmann
Christoph Lüttmann studied political science and public law in Berlin and Bologna and holds a university degree from Freie Universität Berlin, where he focused on conflict prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding and public law. Mr. Lüttmann previously worked for a Swiss NGO for refugees in Lausanne (EVAM), the United Nations Secretariat in New York, the “Research Center 700 – Governance in Limited Statehood”, and the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin. He is a mediator and joined CSSP in 2009. Until 2015, he led the Kosovo program and External Relations at CSSP. Since 2015 Christoph is the managing director of CSSP and realised various mediation processes in the regions of the Western Balkan, South Asia, and Eastern Europe, always in mixed insider-outsider mediator teams. He is a members of the OSCE expert pool on mediation and dialogue facilitation, the Mediation Support Network and the Steering Committees of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office and the EU Community of Practise on Peace Mediation.
