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Sustainability Project

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Werner Arber Professor of Microbiology, Division of Molecular Microbiology, University of Basel (Switzerland), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978		David Audretsch Direktor des Institute for Development Strategies, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University, Bloomington, IND (USA), bis 2009 Direktor der Forschungsgruppe "Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy", Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Jena
Jürgen Audretsch Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Constance (Germany)		John C. Avise Professor of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (USA), Member of the National Academy of Science

John D. Barrow Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge (UK)		Stefan Bauberger, S. J. Priest and Physician, University lecturer in Philosophy of Nature, Visiting Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, Munich School of Philosophy (Germany)
Udo J. Becker Professor für Verkehrsökologie, Technische Universität Dresden		Peter Bellwood Professor of Archeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Doris Bischof-Köhler Professor of Psychologie, University of Munich		Michael Borgolte Professor of Medieval History, Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
Gerhard Börner Professor of Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching/Munich (Germany)		Jürgen Brosius Professor of Molecular Genetics, University Hospital of Münster Muenster (Germany)
Winfried Brugger Professor of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt (Germany)

Mark A. Cane G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York (USA)		Hubert Cancik Professor (em.) of Latin Philology, University of Tübingen (Germany)
José Casanova Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York (USA) and at present Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Berlin (Germany)		David Chandler Professor of History, Department of History, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)

Irven DeVore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)		Jared Diamond Professor of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles, California (USA)
Robin Dunbar Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford (GB)

Karl Eibl Professor of Modern German Literary Studies, University of Munich (Germany)		Gerd Eisenbeiss Board of Directors of the Research Center at Jülich (Germany), Coord. Energy Research at the Helmholtz Association (Germany)
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Rose Isaacs Professor (em.) of Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)		Paul Ekins Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Westminster (UK)
Rolf Emmermann Professor of Earth Sciences, Member of the Scientific Executive Board and Director of the German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam (Germany)		Wolfgang Enard Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
Jean Ensminger Professor of Anthropology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (USA)		Amitai Etzioni Professor für Soziologie, ehem. Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School; Gründer des Communitarian Network, Institutsdirektor für Commuitarian Policy Studies, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. (USA)

Reinhard Feldmeier Professor of New Testament Studies (Evangelical Theology), University of Göttingen (Germany)		Ernst Peter Fischer Professor of History of Science, University of Constance (Germany)
Kurt Flasch Professor (em.) of Philosophy, Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany)		Etienne François Professor of Modern History at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) and at the Sorbonne in Paris (France)
Harald Fritzsch Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Munich (LMU) (Germany)

Henning Gentz Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)		Joachim Gentz Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Göttingen (Germany)
Jan Christian Gertz Professor of Old Testament Studies (Evangelical Theology), University of Heidelberg (Germany)		David B. Goldstein Professor of Genetics, University College London (UK)
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Munich (Germany)

Klaus Hahlbrock Professor of Biochemistry, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne (Germany)		William A. Haseltine Professor for Medicine, Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health until 1993, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Günther Hasinger Professor für Astrophysik und wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Max-Planck-Insituts für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Honorarprofessor an der TU München		Kristen Hawkes Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah (USA)
Gerda Horneck Vice Director of the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, German Aerospace Center, Cologne (Germany)		Wolfgang Huber Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany

Hans Joas Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt (Germany), and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, Illinois (USA)		Steve Jones Professor of Genetics, University College London (UK)

Bernulf Kanitschneider Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Giessen (Germany)		Roland Kany Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Antiquity and Patrology (Catholic Theology), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann Professor für Immunologie und Mikrobiologie, Charité Berlin, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin		Hans Gerhard Kippenberg Professor (em.) of Theology at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt (Germany)
Rudolf Kippenhahn Professor (em.) of Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching/Munich (Germany)		Tom Kirkwood Professor of Medicine and Gerontology, University of Newcastle (UK)
Hans-Josef Klauck Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, The University of Chicago Divinity School (Catholic Theology), Illinois (USA)		Reinhart Koselleck (†) Professor (em.) of Theory of History, University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Gudrun Krämer Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)		Lenelis Kruse-Graumann Professorin für Sozialpsychologie, Universität Heidelberg; stellv. Vorsitzende des Nationalkomitees der UNESCO - Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung

Mojib Latif Professor of Meteorology at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, University of Kiel (Germany)		Stephen LeBlanc Director of Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Claus Leggewie Direktor des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen, Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen		Karl Kardinal Lehmann Cardinal Bishop of Mainz (Germany), President of the German Bishops' Conference
Hartmut Leppin Professor of Ancient History, University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany)		Andreas Lindemann Professor of New Testament Studies at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal Bethel (Religious University), Department Bethel (Evangelical Theology) (Germany)
Volker Linneweber Professor of Social Psychology, President of the Saarland University, Saarbrücken (Germany)		Hans-Jochen Luhmann Senior Scientist in charge of Fundamental Questions at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany)

Christoph Markschies President of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Professor of Ancient Church History (Patristics) (Evangelical Theology), (Germany)		David Martin Professor (em.) of Sociology of Religion at the London School of Economics (UK)
Robert D. Martin A. Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago; Member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago (USA)		Wolfram Mauser Professor of Geography and Remote Sensing, University of Munich (Germany)
Mark Mazower Professor of History, Birkenbeck College, University of London (UK)		Dennis L. Meadows Emeritus Professor of Systems Policy and Social Science Research, University of Hampshire, 1970-72 Director of the "Club of Rome Project on Predicament of Mankind" at MIT, former Director MIT, Dartmouth College and University of New Hampshire, USA
Christian Meier Professor (em.) of Ancient History, University of Munich (Germany)		Christoph Menke Professor of Philosophy, University of Potsdam (Germany)
Winfried Menninghaus Professor of General and Comparative Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)		Annette Merz Professor of New Testament Studies, University of Utrecht (Evangelical Theology) (The Netherlands)
Dirk Messner Professor für Politikwissenschaften, Direktor Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn		Axel Meyer Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Constance (Germany)
Manfred Milinski Executive Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön (Germany)		Jürgen Mittelstrass Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, University of Constance (Germany), President of the Akademia Europaea, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican
Michael Mitterauer Professor em. at the Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna (Austria)		Hans Mohr Professor (em.) of Biology, University of Freiburg/Breisgau (Germany)
Joel Mokyr Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Department of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)		Simon Conway Morris Professor of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Cambridge (UK)
Glenn Most Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa (centre for teaching and research) (Italy) and The University of Chicago, Illinois (USA)		Rainer Münz Professor of Demography, Senior at the HWWA Institute, Hamburg (Germany)

Eckart Otto Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Munich (Germany) and Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa)

Şevket Pamuk Professor of History at The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul (Turkey)		Neil Parsons Professor of History, Department of History, University of Botswana, Gaborone (Botswana)
Orlando Patterson John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)		David W. Pearce Professor (em.) of Environmental Economics, University College London (UK)
Roland Prinzinger Professor of Metabolic Physiology, University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany)

Joachim Radkau Professor of Modern History, University of Bielefeld (Germany)		Hubert Reeves Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, National Center for Scientific Research), Paris (France), Professor of Physics, University of Montreal (Canada)
Josef H. Reichholf Professor of Zoology, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich (Germany)		Wolfgang Reinhard Professor (em.) of Modern History, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Professor of History of Sciences, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciences, Berlin (Germany)		Katherine Richardson Professor of Biological Oceanography, University of Aarhus (Denmark)
James Robinson Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

Jonathan Schell Visiting Professor at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA), Senior Fellow at the Yale Center of the Study of Globalization, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)		Frank Schirrmacher Co-editor of the daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
Wolfgang Schluchter Professor of Sociology, University of Heidelberg (Germany)		Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek Professor of Chemistry, President of the "International Factor 10 Club", Carnoules (France)
Udo Schnelle Professor of New Testament Studies, University of Halle (Evangelical Theology) (Germany)		Karl Schoer Head of the group "Integrated Economic and Environmental Accounts" at the Federal Office of Statistics in Wiesbaden (Germany)
Friedemann Schrenk Professor of Palaeobiology and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Africa (CIRA) at the University of Frankfurt/Main; Head of the Palaeoanthropology Section, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt/M. (Germany)		Sissel Schroeder Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
Petra Schweitzer-Ries Juniorprofessorin für Umweltpsychologie, Universität Magdeburg, Vertreterin der Stiftungsprofessur "Nachhaltige Entwicklung", Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Umweltpsychologie		Hans Reinhard Seeliger Professor of Ancient Church History, Patristics and Christian Archeology, University of Tübingen (Catholic Theology), (Germany)
Dieter Senghaas Professor of International Politics and International Society, University of Bremen (German)		Vandana Shiva Physicist, Ecologist, Head of the Research Foundation of Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Alternative Nobel Prize 1993, New Delhi (India)
Lee M. Silver Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)		Wolf Singer Professor of Physiology, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
Thomas Söding Professor of Biblical Theology at the Catholic Theological Seminary, University of Wuppertal (Germany)		Dirk Solte Privatdozent an der Universität St. Gallen; Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Stellvertreter des Vorstands am Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW/n) in Ulm
Carsten Stahmer Honorary Professor of Statistics, University of Heidelberg (Germany), previously Federal Office of Statistics in Wiesbaden (Germany)

Helmut Thome Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)		Joachim Trümper Professor (em.) of Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching/Munich (Germany)

Carel van Schaik Professor of Anthropology, University of Zürich (Switzerland)		Eckart Voland Professor of Philosophy of Biological Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany)
Gerhard Vollmer Professor of Philosophy, University of Braunschweig (Brunswick) (Germany)		Gero von Boehm Kultur- und Wissenschaftsjournalist, Interscience Film GmbH, ZDF, Arte
Heinrich von Stietencron Professor (em.) of Indology and Comparative Religion at the University of Tübingen (Germany)		Elisabeth von Thadden Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Redakteurin der ZEIT, Bereich Politisches Buch, Hamburg
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Former University President, Member of the German Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Germany)		Peter Voss Director of the public broadcasting company Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Vice-president of the German association of public broadcasters ARD, Visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (Art and Design University), Karlsruhe (Germany)

Peter Wagner Professor of Politics and Social Theory, European University Institute Florence (Italy)		Rudolf G. Wagner Professor of Sinology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)
David Webster Professor of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (USA)		Paul J. J. Welfens Professor für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Schwerpunkt Makroökonomische Theorie und Politik, Jean Monnet Chair for European Economic Integration, Wuppertal
Harald Welzer Professor of Social Psychology and Senior Researcher, University of Witten/Herdecke, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen (Germany)		Oda Wischmeyer Professor of New Testament Studies (Literature and History of Early Christianity), University of Erlangen (Evangelical Theology) (Germany)
Lodewijk Wolter Ehem. Professor für theoretische Astrophysik und Plasmaphysik in Leiden, ehem. Rutherford Professor of Astronomy und Leiter des Astronomie-Departments an der Columbia University (NY), ehem. Generaldirektor des European Southern Observatory (ESO), ehem. Präsident der International Astronomischen Union (NL)		Bin Wong Professor of History, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (USA)

Jan Luiten van Zanden Professor of Social History, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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