Maike Röttger, born 1966 in Hanover, has taken up her post as CEO of Plan Germany in December 2010. She is also engaged in the Board of Directors of VENRO (umbrella organisation of Germany’s NGOs) and a member of the Counsel for Sustainable Development Policy of the Federal State of Hamburg. Maike Röttger studied history and German literature before she started her career at Hamburg’s renowned newspaper “Hamburger Abendblatt”.