The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI is advised by a Board of Trustees, to which members from academia, industry, politics and administration belong. Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Dr. Manfred Wittenstein, President and CEO of Wittenstein AG.

Science

• Dr. Erik Arnold
  Director Technopolis Ltd., Brighton
  
• Dr. Peter Fritz
  Vice President Research and Innovation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Llerena
  Bureau d’Économie Theorique et Appliquée (BETA), Université de Strasbourg
  
• Prof. Dr. Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel
  Chair of Technical Electronics, Technical University Munich

Industry

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Barner
  Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein
• Dr. Manfred Eggersdorfer
  Head of Research and Development der Roche Vitamins Ltd., Basel
  
• Klaus Helmrich
  Siemens AG, Munich
• Wolfgang Müller-Pietralla
  Head of Future Research and Trend Transfe, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg
  
• Hartmut Rauen
  German Engineering Federation (VDMA), Frankfurt am Main
  
• Dieter Schweer
  Federation of German Industries (BDI), Berlin
• Dr. Toni S. Seethaler
  Freudenberg New Technologies KG, Weinheim
• Reinhard Wieck
  Deutsche Telekom AG, Directorate General, Bonn
  
• Dr. Manfred Wittenstein 
  Chairman of the Board of Management Wittenstein AG
  

Policy and Administration

• MinDirig. Engelbert Beyer
  Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Beat Hotz-Hart
  Vice Director of the Federal Office for Vocational Training and Technology (BBT), Bern, and University Zurich
• MinDirig. Dr. Heribert Knorr
  Ministery of Science, Research and Art in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
  
• Ltd. MinRat Dr. Peter Mendler
  Ministry of Finance and Economics Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
• Krista Sager
  Member of the German Bundestag, parliamentary party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen