Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Dr. h.c. Caren Sureth-Sloane from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Paderborn University is the new Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) - the largest research funding organisation and central self-governing institution of science in Germany. The Paderborn professor was elected to the Executive Committee by the General Assembly on Wednesday, 2 July and will take up her four-year term of office on 1 January 2026. "Being elected to the DFG Executive Committee is a great honour for me. Together with my colleagues, I would like to further develop the framework conditions for excellent research in Germany and provide impetus for sustainable science," said Prof Sureth-Sloane, looking forward to the task ahead.

The DFG Executive Committee consists of President Prof Dr Katja Becker, ten Vice Presidents and the President of the Donors' Association. It jointly develops the strategic and conceptual direction of the DFG. In addition, the Executive Committee prepares the decisions of the Senate and the Joint Committee, insofar as these are not funding decisions.

Prof Sureth-Sloane has held the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Business Taxation, at Paderborn University since 2004. She researches the effects of taxation on business decisions as well as international corporate taxation and tax complexity. She is also the spokesperson for the special research centre TRR 266 "Accounting for Transparency". Prof Sureth-Sloane has been awarded numerous prizes and received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Graz and Bremen in 2021 and 2022. She was already a member of the DFG Review Board for Economics from 2020 to 2021 and has been a member of the DFG Senate since 2021, from which she will step down at the end of the year following her election to the Executive Committee.

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