The International Centre for Traditional Irrigation in Europe Foundation (IZTB) is organised as follows:
Foundation Board Committee: Hans-Jürg Käser, Prof. em. Dr Rolf Weingartner, Markus Ischi
Management: Werner Stirnimann
Head of the Forchheim branch: Julia Schrade
Board of Trustees:
Hans-Jürg Käser, Langenthal (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 (International Advisory Board IZTB)
Ruedi Haudenschild, Wangen a.A.
Markus Ischi, Langenthal
Dr Uwe Kirschstein, Forchheim, Germany
Raimund Rodewald, Biel
Prof Dr Rolf Tanner, Melchnau
Ingeborg Vonderstrass, Ehrenkirchen, Germany
Prof. em. Dr Rolf Weingartner, Thun
IZTB team
Dr Karina Liechti, Berne
Susanna Reinhard, Roggwil
Dr Theresa Tribaldos, Berne
Markus Maag, Wyssachen
Jörg Wetzel, Burgdorf
Fritz Wüthrich, Obersteckholz
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