GTZ has the corporate form of a GmbH (closed limited company) in the private sector. It is owned by the German Federal Government. The Managing Directors are Dr Bernd Eisenblatter, Dr Hans-Joachim Preu and Wolfgang Schmitt. The GTZ Supervisory Board has representatives of four Federal Ministries: the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Federal Foreign Office, Federal Ministry of Finance, and Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour. Since 1998 the Supervisory Board Chairman has been State Secretary Hans-Jurgen Beerfeltz from the BMZ. Our Head Office is in Eschborn, near Frankfurt am Main. Regional know how is consolidated in the Departments Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and Mediterranean Region, Europe and Central Asian Countries. Technical know how is consolidated in the Planning and Development department. In addition to its activities for the Federal German Government, GTZ also works for a large number of international clients in its business sector GTZ International Services. GTZ has offices in 87 countries worldwide. We are constantly expanding our external structure and transferring decision-making authority from Head Office to the field. This benefits the planning and implementation of the various projects and programmes. GTZ also has offices in Berlin, Bonn and Brussels. GTZ-AgenZ, the Agency for market-oriented concepts, with its head office in Frankfurt am Main, extends the range of GTZ consulting services in the field of political communication and strategic marketing. Headquartered in Frankfurt is the Centrum for internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM), a joint operation of GTZ and the Federal German Employment Institute. Since its formation in 1980, CIM has acted as a placement agency with a development policy commission.