A powerful and flexible structure
More than 900 employees work for ZUG in Berlin, Bonn, and Cottbus. The organisational structure of the company is geared towards the requirements resulting from our assignments. Funding management — the core business of ZUG as a project management agency — is sub-divided into four business divisions. The technical-scientific expertise and the commercial-legal expertise are closely interwoven and organised in independent specialisation areas.
ZUG also bundles its strategic expertise in the energy sector with the PtX Lab Lausitz think and do tank and the Competence Centre on Climate Change Mitigation in Energy-Intensive Industries (KEI) in Cottbus. The Competence Centre for Nature-Based Climate Action in Berlin acts as a central point of contact at federal level for the topic and advises and informs stakeholders in natural climate change mitigation issues.
Beyond funding management and the work of the competence centres, ZUG offers additional services for clients, for instance in the fields of communication as well as monitoring and evaluation, with five other administrative and cross-specialisation departments. The Central Services division lays the foundation for all the work of ZUG. From here, high-level services - for example in the fields of Human Resources, finance or digitalisation - are offered from a single source.
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Management
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A management duo stands jointly at the helm of ZUG: Since 2021, Stefan Demuth is responsible cross-company and in the individual contracts for the commercial and legal division as Managing Director. Dr Constanze Haug has been Managing Director since April 2024 and primarily manages all facets of content-related development at ZUG and its projects in this position.
Dr Constanze Haug
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Managing Director
Dr Constanze Haug is Managing Director of ZUG since May 2024. She studied International Relations and Environmental Law and has a PhD from the Vrije Universitet of Amsterdam.
Constanze Haug has been working in various capacities on climate policy issues for about 20 years in close cooperation with national and international clients and partners from the environmental, nature and climate action sector. She led, amongst others, the secretariat of the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP), an international association of more than 40 governments. From 2020 until April 2024, Constanze Haug was part of the management and later of the Executive Board of adelphi, an independent think and do tank for climate, environment and development.
Stefan Demuth
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Commercial Managing Director
Stefan Demuth holds a degree in Public Administration and is responsible for commercial and legal issues in ZUG projects and for the entire company since 2021.
He has been organising and managing public funding for 35 years. He is in particular dedicated to project funding and the associated management tasks. Before joining ZUG, Stefan Demuth worked for about 20 years at the Project Management Agency Jülich (PtJ) in various management functions, most recently as Head of Division and constant deputy to the Director. From 1988 to 2001, he worked at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, first in various funding departments and as of 1998 in the organisation department.
Supervisory Board
A Supervisory Board has been appointed to advise and monitor the Management Board in matters of governance.
The Supervisory Board has nine members:
- Dr Ingrid Hanhoff (Deputy Director-General, Federal Ministry for the Environment)
- Jens Deutsch (Employee Representative, ZUG)
- Professor Dr Karola Bastini (University Professor, Technical University of Berlin)
- Katja Frank (Employee Representative, ZUG)
- Professor Christiane Hipp (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg (BTU))
- Dr Thomas Hogh (Government Director, Federal Ministry of Finance)
- Dr Uwe Neuser (Government Director, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection)
- Dr Andreas Rickert (Management Board, PHINEO)
- Holger Sassenberg (Employee Representative, ZUG)
Chair of the Board is Dr Ingrid Hanhoff, with Jens Deutsch as Deputy Chair.