Barbara Rigassi, Dr. oec. HSG, has been a managing partner at BHP - Brugger und Partner AG for many years, where she has worked in the area of sustainability-oriented strategy and organisational consulting. She was a member of the management of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs as well as a Director and Secretary General of a leading Swiss bank. As an independent director and member of the Board of Trustees, she can rely on a powerful network of contacts in business, politics and in civil society. 

Carl Hirschmann is an independent entrepreneur who has represented the Hirschmann family for over 10 years as a member of the Foundation's Board. He has been initiating, supporting, and financing charitable projects domestically and abroad since the age of 25. He is co-founder of the company Rokbox, which promotes sustainable packaging in the art industry worldwide, and he runs a property company in Switzerland together with his brother Michael.

Raymond Loretan, who is a former Swiss ambassador, worked in the diplomatic service for more than 20 years after completing his law studies in Fribourg. Today he is the chair and member of several Boards of Directors and Boards of Trustees, including Vice Chair of AEVIS VICTORIA SA and Chair of the business newspaper L'agefi. He is also extensively engaged in various economic, cultural, and charitable organisations.

Dr. Ursula Renold is Professor of Educational Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. She is also the Strategic Director of the Center on the Economics and Management of Education and Training Systems (CEMETS). In addition, she is President of the Board of the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Before joining ETH, Ursula Renold was Director of the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET) at the Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), in Bern. In this role she was in charge of the areas of competence of vocational education and training, universities of applied sciences and innovation.

Valentin Vogt was President of the Swiss Employers' Confederation from July 2011 to June 2023. He is an independent entrepreneur, Chair of the Board of Directors of Kistler Holding AG, and a member of the Boards of Directors of Bucher Industries AG and EGS Beteiligungen AG. From 2011 to 2020 he held the position of Chair of the Board of Directors and from 2000 to 2011 he was CEO and Delegate of the Board of Directors of Burckhardt Compression. Prior to that, he held several management roles in the Sulzer Corporation in Switzerland and abroad, most recently as a member of the executive board. He studied at the University of St. Gallen and graduated as lic. oec. HSG in 1984.

Martina Weber, Executive Assistant with a federal diploma, acquired many years of professional experience in the foundation sector and completed further training at the Center for Philanthropy Studies at the University of Basel.

As of 2007, a former member of the Council of States Dr. Eugen David chaired the Hirschmann Foundation after its reorganisation and played a key role in its development. In recognition of his dedicated work, the Board of Trustees of the Hirschmann Foundation appointed him to the position of Honorary President when he retired at the end of 2021.