Franz Karl Pruller

Franz Karl Prüller has been with DIE ERSTE Foundation since 2005, first as Programme Director for the Social Development Programme, since December 2012 as Member of the Executive Board and from 1.1.2015 to the end of 2016 as CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Foundation. From 2017 he assumed the position of Senoir Advisor to the Board of ERSTE Foundation and the Savings Bank Group in Austria.

Franz Karl currently serves also on the Supervisory Boards of Zweite Sparkasse in Austria and good.bee Credit, a microfinance institute in Romania as well as on the Steering Committee for the European Fund for the Balkans. He also is a member of the advisory board of good.bee Holding. He also serves a vice-president of the board of the Network of European Foundations as well as member of the Governing Council of the European Foundation Centre