Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen

From 1989 until 1999, Pfeiffer-Poensgen was the chancellor of the Cologne College of Music.

From 2004 until 2017, Pfeiffer-Poensgen served as Secretary General of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States (KdL).

Following the 2017 state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Pfeiffer-Poensgen was appointed State Minister of Culture and Science in the government of Minister-President Armin Laschet. As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, she served as a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs from 2017 to 2022. In addition, she was also a member of the German-French Friendship Group set up by the German Bundesrat and the French Senate.^[3]

• NRW.BANK, Member of the Supervisory Board (2017–2018)

• LMU Munich, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2026)^[4]
• Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Member of the Board of Trustees (2018–2022)^[5]
• Deutschlandradio, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board (2017–2022)^[6]
• Josefine and Eduard von Portheim Foundation for Science and Art, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018)
• Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board (since 2017)
• Heinrich Hertz Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (2017–2022)^[7]
• Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Ex-Officio Member of the Senate^[8]
• Kunststiftung NRW, Member of the Board of Trustees (2017–2022)^[9]
• Museum Insel Hombroich, Member of the Board of Trustees (2017–2022)^[10]
• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees (2017–2022)
• Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), Deputy Chair of the Board^[11]
• Akademie Schloss Solitude, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees^[12]
• German Lost Art Foundation, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees (2015-2017)^[13]
• Franco-German Cultural Council (DFKR), Member of the Board of Trustees (2010-2017)