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CBM has had a new board since 1 January: Hans-Peter Lauffs will be working alongside Chairman Dr. Rainer Brockhaus to steer the future course of CBM. He will be responsible for the finance and operations, human resources and international project work.
“I am very much looking forward to this new challenge – especially because it focuses on the issue of disability in international cooperation,” says Lauffs. “Making an impact has been a recurring theme throughout my career and is also important to me at CBM.”
Expert in health and innovations
Lauffs served as the chief operating officer at EIT Health, an innovation network in the healthcare sector, for over five years. Prior to that, the 58-year-old was the managing director of the non-profit company Haus des Stiftens, which supports non-profit organisations through software donations from well-known software companies. He also co-founded and managed a start-up that made digital media more accessible to older people. At Malteser Hilfsdienst, he improved the financial control systems and expanded the quality management system.
Innovation and digitalisation for disadvantaged people
His professional career and voluntary work for persons with disabilities in France, Georgia and Lebanon demonstrate his strong commitment to disadvantaged people and to innovation.
The best qualifications for the new position: “We are firmly convinced that we have found the right person for this demanding task in Hans-Peter Lauffs,” says Professor Dr Anna Svea Fischer, Chair of the Supervisory Board at CBM.
“It is particularly challenging because, in times of economic uncertainty, we also have to expect a decline in donations, while at the same time government spending on development cooperation is falling. However, these economic uncertainties exist worldwide and make CBM’s work all the more necessary, because people with disabilities are often the first to be forgotten.”
Hans-Peter Lauffs is married, has three children and lives in Icking in Upper Bavaria.