Tim Gobel

Tim Göbel became Executive Director of the Schöpflin Foundation in 2016. As a grantmaking foundation operating throughout Europe, Schöpflin enables experiments through social risk capital and strengthens their dissemination in civil society. The Foundation supports civil society organisations in their growth - as a complement and counterweight to public and private sector actors.
Tim studied economics and was then a founding member of the team that set up the private interdisciplinary Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, serving as its Vice President from 2008 through 2016. Tim Göbel is a member of the supervisory board at Finanzwende e. V. and a member of the advisory board at ProjectTogether. Over the past five years, as the Executive Director of Schöpflin, he has also played a key role in developing Publix, a House for Journalism and the Public in Berlin.