Members of the board of trustees

The board of trustees is composed of various representatives whose membership has been laid down in the Statutes of 19 March 2004.

Below is a list of the current members:

• President, Dr. phil. et lic. iur. can. Claudius Luterbacher-Maineri
  Head of the Office for Social Affairs of the Canton of St. Gallen (Member since 2011, President since 2018)

• Prof. Dr. iur. can. et lic. theol. Adrian Loretan 
  Professor Ord. of canon and ecclesiastical law at the University of Lucerne (Member since 1995)
• Prof. Dr. iur. Christoph Winzeler 
  LL.M., Attorney at law (Member since 2003)
• Prof. Dr. iur. can., Dr. iur. et lic. theol. Astrid Kaptijn 
  Professor Ord. of canon law at the University of Fribourg (Member since 2009)
• Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Stöckli
  Professor Ord. of constitutional law and administrative law at the University of Fribourg (Member since 2022)
• Prof. Dr. iur. Yves Mausen   
  Professor Ord. of Legal History and of Religion and Law (Member since 2015)
• Markus Oeschger
  Representative of Römisch-Katholische Zentralkonferenz der Schweiz (Member since 2025)

• Nicole Schmid, MLaw, Midlevel academic representative

• Erik Meier, Student representative