Global Disability Summit 2025

2–3 Apr 2025 | Berlin, Germany

Rainer Brockhaus

CEO

CBM Christian Blind Mission

Bensheim, Germany

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I have a strong motivation to drive change – in CBM and in society – and making international development truly inclusive.

My organisation

CBM Christian Blind Mission

CBM Christian Blind Mission

Civil Society Organization (CSO)

Bensheim, Germany

CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities. Based on its Christian values and over 100 years of professional expertise, CBM addresses poverty as a cause, and a consequence, of disability, and works in partnership to create a society for all. CBM’s vision is of an inclusive world in which all persons with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential. CBM works in the most disadvantaged societies, irrespective of race, gender or religion.
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About me

Dr Rainer Brockhaus joined CBM in 2009 as CEO of CBM Germany. With the merger of CBM Germany and CBM-International in 2020 he became CEO of the newly formed CBM organisation. He has been responsible for fundraising, communications and programmes during this time. Rainer holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Applied Computer Science. Prior to joining CBM, he worked in various leadership positions in finance, marketing and sales in the IT industry.

Rainer combines his commercial and NGO expertise with a strong motivation to drive change – in CBM and in society – and is committed to making international development truly inclusive. The guiding principles for all his work are the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the human rights-based approach underpinning the CRPD as well as the Sustainable Development Goals and their principle to ‘leave no one behind’.

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