The GIZ Supervisory Board consists of ten shareholder representatives and ten representatives of the employees.
The shareholder is represented by four members of the German Federal Parliament (members of the Budget Committee) and five representatives of the German Government (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conversation and Nuclear Safety), as well as one representative of the Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung (DSE) from the Bavarian State Chancellery.
The employees are represented by ten workforce representatives (three trade union representatives, one executive manager and six employees).