Günter Stock is President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2006.

Günter Stock was Vice-President and member of the Senate and Executive Committee of the Max Planck Society (MPG) until 2011 and Chair of the Jury of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis of the Federal President of Germany until 2012. He is senator of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, senator and member of the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the Academia Europaea, member of the Forschungsunion Wirtschaft – Wissenschaft of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, member of various steering committees, supervisory boards and scientific institutions (inter alia Carl Zeiss AG, Charité) and spokesperson of the network HealthCapital Berlin-Brandenburg. Günter Stock is holder of the Commander‘s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and of the Order of Merit of Berlin (Verdienstorden des Landes Berlin).

In January 2008 he took office as President of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and humanities. In April 2012 he was elected President of ALLEA (All European Academies).