Speakers

An overview of our speakers and authors (the information refers to the time of their presentation/publication):

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Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is an economist and university lecturer. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1993, where he is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was appointed Institute Professor in 2019. In 2024, together with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial […]

Jutta Allmendinger

Prof. Dr. h. c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph. D., is President of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Professor at Humboldt University and Honorary Professor at Freie Universität Berlin.

Werner Arber

Prof. Dr. Werner Arber, Professor of Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel (CH), Nobel Prize for Medicine 1978

ASKO Europa-Stiftung

The ASKO Europa-Stiftung is a foundation with legal capacity under civil law. It was established in 1990 and endowed with its foundation capital by ASKO Deutsche Kaufhaus AG and ASKO Vereinigung e. V. (both Saarbrücken). With its headquarters in Saarbrücken, the ASKO Europa-Stiftung is located in the heart of the European core region SaarLorLux and […]

Jürgen Audretsch

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Audretsch, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Konstanz

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Heike Bach

Dr. Heike Bach, Vista GmbH, Remote Sensing in Geosciences

John D. Barrow

Prof. Dr. John D. Barrow, Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University (UK)

Jens Beckert

Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne

Manuel Bickel

Dr. Manuel Bickel, Co-Head of the Product and Consumption Systems Research Unit “Sustainable Production and Consumption”, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH

Adelheid Biesecker

Prof. Dr. Adelheid Biesecker, Professor (emer.) of Economic Theory at the University of Bremen, focus of her work includes precautionary economics

Dieter Birnbacher

Prof. Dr. Dieter Birnbacher teaches philosophy at the Philosophical Institute in Düsseldorf. He is Vice President of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft e.V., Frankfurt/M. and a member of the Central Ethics Commission of the German Medical Association.

Doris Bischof-Köhler

Prof. Dr. Doris Bischof-Köhler, Professor of Psychology, University of Munich

Gerhard Börner

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Börner, Professor of Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching/Munich

Achim Brunnengräber

Private lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, deputy professor at TU Dresden, Chair of International Politics and Center for International Studies (ZIS)

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Mark A. Cane

Prof. Dr. Mark A. Cane, Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY (USA)

Michael Carolan

Prof. Dr. Michael Carolan, Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University. He is concerned with the negative social and ecological effects of low prices. His personal nightmare of low prices is the US giant Walmart, where he repeatedly discovers “bizarre illustrative material” for his lectures.

Simon Conway Morris

Professor of Geology and Paleontology, University of Cambridge (UK)

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Giacomo D'Alisa

Nicole Deitelhoff

Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Managing Director of PRIF – Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research

Frederico Demaria

Irven DeVore

Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge/Mass. (USA)

Hans Diefenbacher

Prof. Dr. Hans Diefenbacher, Associate Professor of Economics at the Alfred Weber Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of the Protestant Study Community/Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (FEST) in Heidelberg

Robin Dunbar

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology; Director, Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford (GB)

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Wolfgang Eichhorn

Professor at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and author of numerous scientific books and articles in journals.

Gerd Eisenbeiß

Member of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Coordinator of Energy Research at the Helmholtz Association, Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Group on Energy/EU

Felix Ekardt

Prof. Dr. Dr. Felix Ekardt LL.M., M.A., Founder and Director of the Research Center for Sustainability and Climate Policy in Leipzig and Berlin

Rolf Emmermann

Professor of Geosciences, Scientific Director and Head of GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Wolfgang Enard

Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Jean E. Ensminger

Professor of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA)

Amitai Etzioni

Professor of Sociology, former Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School; founder of the Communitarian Network, Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., (USA)

Peter Euler

Prof. Dr. Peter Euler, Professor of General Pedagogy with a focus on the pedagogy of natural and environmental sciences

Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen

The Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen is a state-recognized independent provider of extracurricular youth and adult education.

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Ernst Peter Fischer

Prof. Dr. Ernst Peter Fischer, Professor of History of Science, University of Konstanz

Frauke Fischer

Dr. Frauke Fischer, biologist, author, lecturer at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Würzburg

Bernd Freisleben

Prof. Dr. Bernd Freisleben, Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Marburg

Forum für Verantwortung

The purpose of the Forum für Verantwortung Foundation is to promote education, science and research, particularly in the field of sustainable development.

Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit FUTURZWEI.

FUTURZWEI is a non-profit foundation that is committed to the project of a sustainable, open society suitable for grandchildren.

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe

Associate Professor of General Climatology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, has been a meteorologist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research since it was founded. He heads the “Climate Analysis and Scenarios” research group there, which statistically analyzes the climate and calculates future climate changes for various regions.

Matthias Glaubrecht

Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht, Professor of Animal Biodiversity, University of Hamburg, and project leader of the Evolutioneum at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change; evolutionary biologist, biosystematician, historian of science, author

Hartmut Graßl

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Graßl is former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Professor Emeritus of General Meteorology at the University of Hamburg.

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Klaus Hahlbrock

Professor of Biochemistry, former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne

Marcel Hänggi

Marcel Hänggi studied history at the University of Zurich. He has been working as a journalist since 1996 and was, among other things, foreign editor of Weltwoche and science editor of the weekly newspaper. He has been a freelance science journalist since 2007. He received the Zurich Journalism Prize in 2007.

Alan Harris

Prof. Dr. Alan Harris, Senior Scientist, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin

William A. Haseltine

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health, CEO Haseltine Associates, Ltd.; Founder and (former) CEO of Human Genome Sciences, Washington (USA)

Kristen Hawkes

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah (USA)

Marc Helbling

Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling, Professor of Sociology with a focus on migration at the University of Mannheim; member of the Expert Council on Integration and Migration at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Silke Helfrich

Commons activist and publicist, 1999-2007 Heinrich Böll Foundation staff member abroad for Central America, Mexico and Cuba

Klaus Helling

Prof. Dr. Klaus Helling, Dean of the Department of Environmental Economics/Law, Director of the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld

Kathleen Hermans

Dr. Kathleen Hermans, Head of a junior research group, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH, Leipzig

Dietmar Hexel

Member of the Executive Board of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), expert member of the Bundestag Commission of Inquiry “Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life”

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Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt Energie

The Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt Energie researches and develops models, strategies and instruments for transitions to sustainable development at regional, national and international level. The focus is on resource, climate and energy challenges in their interactions with the economy and society.

Dina Ionesco

Dina Ionesco is co-director of the new Master’s Program in Migration, Climate Change and Environment (MAMCE) at Webster University in Geneva and works as a manager at the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Previously, she headed the Migration, Environment and Climate Change Division at the United Nations Migration Agency […]

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Jill Jäger

Dr. Jill Jäger, Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) in Vienna, explains the interconnectedness of various developments on Earth and raises awareness of the fact that we all belong to the Earth system. The situation on our planet is more dramatic than many believe – but there are good options for action.

Hans Joas

Prof. Dr. Hans Joas, Director of the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago

Simon Johnson

Economist, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from March 2007 to August 2008. Since 2004, he has been Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 2024, together with Daron AcemoÄŸlu and James A. Robinson, he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for studies of how institutions […]

Steve Jones

Professor of Genetics, University College London (UK)

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Bernulf Kanitscheider

Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences, University of Giessen

Benjamin Kasten

Benjamin Kasten studied urban and regional planning. He has been working for Friedrich von Borries’ project office since 2012.

Stefan H. E Kaufmann

Professor of Immunology and Microbiology and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin

Till Kellerhoff

Till Kellerhoff studied political science and international relations in Erfurt, Mexico and London. He has worked at the Club of Rome since 2017. Kellerhoff is a contributing author to the bestseller Earth for All (2022) and Guest Lecturer at the University of Erfurt.

Claudia Kemfert

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert is an energy economist, head of department at the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin (DIW) and teaches at the Hertie School of Government

Jürgen Kerwer

Former permanent deputy to the director and head of the “Youth Work / Economy / Social Affairs” department at the Hessische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung. Graduate social worker, play educator, systemic supervision and organizational consulting. Member of the board of the Stiftung Forum für Verantwortung.

Hans-Josef Klauck

Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, The University of Chicago Divinity School, USA (Katholische Theologie)

Stefan Klotz

Dr. Stefan Klotz, Head of the thematic area “Ecosystems of the Future” and the Department of Biocoenosis Research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Halle (Saale)

Michael Kopatz

Dr. Michael Kopatz, German environmental scientist, lecturer and project manager at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (on leave from 08/2022 – 07/2028). From 2011 to 2017 he was a lecturer at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and the University of Kassel. In the local elections in Lower Saxony on September 11, 2016, […]

Johannes Krause

Professor of Paleogenetics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Michael Krawinkel

Prof. Dr. Michael Krawinkel, Professor of Human Nutrition with a focus on nutrition in developing countries at the Institute of Nutritional Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen

Stefan Kroll

Dr. Stefan Kroll, Member of the Board and Head of Science Communication, PRIF – Leibniz-Institut für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Frankfurt/Main. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Forum für Verantwortung.

Friderike Kuik

Dr. Fridrike Kuik studied physics in Marburg and Potsdam and completed her doctorate in meteorology at the Freie Universität Berlin. During this time, she conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. She joined the European Central Bank in 2017 and currently works in the Economics Directorate.

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Mojib Latif

Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, Senior Professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and at Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR)

Claus Leggewie

Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen, Professor of Political Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change

Anders Levermann

Prof. Dr. Anders Levermann, Head of the Complexity Research Department of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor at the Institute of Physics at the University of Potsdam

Christa Liedtke

Head of the research group “Sustainable Production and Consumption”, Wuppertal Institute. Since August 2012 Visiting Professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Sustainability Research in Design, Department of Industrial Design

Volker Linneweber

Professor of Social Psychology, President of Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken

Reinhard Loske

Dr. Reinhard Loske, Chairman of the Study Group on Global Issues for the Future of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik in Berlin, Head of the “Sustainable Germany” research group

Hans-Jochen Luhmann

Senior Scientist, responsible for policy issues at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy; editor of Gaia

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Claude Martin

Dr. Claude Martin, Swiss biologist, has conducted research in India and Africa. 1993-2005 Director General of WWF International.

Robert D. Martin

Professor for Anthropology; 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 Geographical Remote Sensing at the University of Munich, Chairman of the DFG’s National Committee for Global Change Research

Graeme Maxton

Secretary General of the Club of Rome and author of the Spiegel bestseller “Die Wachstumslüge” (The Growth Lie) and numerous other books on economic topics.

Dennis L. Meadows

Emeritus Professor of Systems Policy and Social Science Research, University of New 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

Bernd Meyer

Professor of Economics at the University of Osnabrück and Scientific Director of the Society for Economic Structures Research. He was Chairman of the Evolutionary Economics Committee of the Society for Economic and Social Sciences and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board “Environmental Economic Accounting” at the Federal Ministry for the Environment.

Volker Mosbrugger

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, earth system researcher and university lecturer as well as former Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt/M

Harald Müller

Professor of International Relations at the University of Frankfurt/Main and Managing Director of the Peace and Conflict Research Institute of the State of Hesse

Rainer Münz

Prof. Dr. Rainer Münz, demographer, is Head of Research and Development at ERSTE Bank and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics

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Auma Obama

Dr. Auma Obama, founder and chairwoman of the Sauti Kuu Foundation in Nairobi

Hilke Oberhansberg

Dr. Hilke Oberhansberg, economist and environmental scientist

Hermann E. Ott

Senior Advisor at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, former Member of the German Bundestag

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Niko Paech

Associate Professor at the Chair of Production and Environment (PUM) at the University of Oldenburg

Åževket Pamuk

Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce is currently an environmental consultant for New Scientist magazine and writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. His current topics of interest include global water scarcity and land grabbing.

Edgar Peiter

Prof. Dr. Edgar Peiter, Head of the Chair of Plant Nutrition at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Hannes Petrischak

Dr. Hannes Petrischak, Head of Business Unit Sielmanns Naturlandschaften & Naturerlebnis, Heinz Sielmann Foundation

Bernhard Pötter

Bernhard Pötter is a journalist, author and editorial director of Climate.Table, Table.Media’s newsletter on international climate policy, editor in the Economy & Environment department of taz and also writes for Spiegel Online. He studied American Studies in Bloomington (Indiana/USA) and Politics and Law at the Free University of Berlin.

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Stefan Rahmstorf

Prof. Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf leads the Department of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and is Professor of Ocean Physics at the University of Potsdam. He is one of the world’s most renowned climate researchers. He was one of the lead authors of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental […]

Stephan Rammler

Prof. Dr. Stephan Rammler is a freelance scientist and author. His research area includes future and transformation research, mobility, resilience and climate futurology. Professor at the University of Fine Arts, Head of the Institute for Transportation Design, Braunschweig

Jørgen Randers

Jørgen Randers is Professor Emeritus of Climate Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School. He is a full member of the Club of Rome and co-author of the bestsellers “The Limits to Growth” (1972) and “Earth for All” (2022).

Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French nuclear physicist and astrophysicist, including professor of astrophysics, C.N.R.S., Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (F).

Fritz Reheis

Prof. Dr. Fritz Reheis, lecturer at various universities in the Department of General Education, most recently at the University of Erfurt – subject areas: Ethics education, social economics, environmental education, health promotion and ecology of time; at the Chair of Political Theory at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg, subject representative for the didactics of […]

Josef H. Reichholf

Prof. Dr. Josef H. Reichholf is a German zoologist, evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He is an honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich and was Head of the Ornithology Section of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich from 1974 to 2010.

Wolfgang Reinhard

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Reinhard, German historian. He held professorships at the Universities of Augsburg and Freiburg. His research focuses on the history of the papacy and patronage in the early modern period, European expansion, and the history of state power.

Lucia Reisch

Prof. Dr. Lucia Reisch, German social scientist and economist. Since September 2021, she has held the newly created El-Erian Chair in Behavioral Economics and Policy at the University of Cambridge and heads the El-Erian Institute of Behavioral Economics and Policy (EEI). Since April 2022, the chair and EEI have been part of Cambridge Judge Business […]

Albert F. Reiterer

Dr. Albert F. Reiterer, social scientist, taught at the Departments of Sociology and Ethnology at the University of Vienna, at the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz and at the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.

Ortwin Renn

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ortwin Renn teaches environmental and technological sociology at the University of Stuttgart and is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Research at the University of Stuttgart (ZIRIUS)

Katherine Richardson

Katherine Richardson, US-American oceanographer with a specialization in marine biology. Professor of Biological Oceanography, Vice President of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, Aarhus University (DK)

James A. Robinson

James A. Robinson, Professor of Political Science and Economist at the University of Chicago (USA); from 2004 to 2009 he was Professor of Government at Harvard University. In 2024, together with Daron AcemoÄŸlu and Simon Johnson, he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for studies of how institutions are formed and influence […]

Dorothee Rodenhäuser

Dorothee Rodenhäuser M.A., Scientific Advisor in the “Sustainable Development” department at the Research Institute of the Protestant Study Community (FEST), Heidelberg

Hartmut Rosa

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, Professor of General and Theoretical Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Director of the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt.

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Tilman Santarius

Prof. Dr. Tilman Santarius is Professor of Socio-Ecological Transformation at TU Berlin and also a scientific author on climate policy, trade policy, sustainable management and global justice.

Matthias Sauerbruch

Matthias Sauerbruch, architect, urban planner and university lecturer, co-founder with Louisa Hutton of the international office for architecture, urban planning and design Sauerbruch Hutton, Berlin

Torsten Schäfer

Prof. Dr. Torsten Schäfer is an author, environmental journalist and professor of journalism and text production at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Jonathan Schell

Jonathan Schell, US peace activist, author and journalist. He has taught at Emory University, Princeton University, New York University and Wesleyan University, among others. In 1987 (Institute of Politics) and 2002 (at the Shorenstein Center) he was a fellow at Harvard University.

Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber is a German climate researcher. His work focuses on climate impact research and earth system analysis. He is one of the world’s most renowned climate experts. Until September 2018, he was Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), which he founded in 1992 and which became one of […]

Gerhard Scherhorn

Prof. Dr. rer. pol., is Professor Emeritus of Consumer Economics at the University of Hohenheim and Senior Consultant at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.

Ute Scheub

Dr. rer. pol. Ute Scheub, political scientist, journalist, and freelance author specializing in ecology.

Ansgar Schmidt

Ansgar Schmidt OSB, Benedictine, former Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias, Trier, Abbot President of the Congregation of the Annunciation

Hans Peter Schmidt

Hans Peter Schmidt is Managing Director of the Ithaka Institute, an international network for carbon strategies and climate farming. The institute develops methods to permanently store carbon in materials and agricultural soils. Schmidt conducts research in the fields of carbon and plant nutrient cycles, ecology and environmental technology.

Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Professor of Chemistry, was Vice President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and President of the Factor 10 Institute in Carnoules (France).

Uwe Schneidewind

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind, economist and German politician, former President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Professor at the University of Wuppertal. Since 2026, he has been (the first) Fellow at the School of Transformation and Sustainability (STS) at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Udo Schnelle

Prof. Dr. Udo Schnelle, is a German Protestant theologian, Professor (emeritus) of New Testament at the Faculty of Theology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and is known as the author of several introductory theological works that have been translated into various languages.

Lothar Scholz

Dr. Lothar Scholz, retired director of the education authority, responsible for regional teacher training and school counselling at the Darmstadt-Dieburg state education authority, studied history and social studies in Marburg and Giessen. Head of social studies training. Since 1975, further training and lecturer in the field of political education and lesson development. Doctorate on games […]

Engelbert Schramm

Dr. Engelbert Schramm is a German biologist and environmental scientist. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt am Main and was a member of the institute’s management team between 2014 and 2018.

Friedemann Schrenk

Prof. Dr. Friedemann Schrenk, Professor of Paleobiology and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary African Research at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Head of the Paleanthropology Section, SenckenbergMuseum Research Institute, Frankfurt/Main

Wolfgang Schroeder

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder is head of the department “Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany – Statehood in Transition” at the University of Kassel. From 2009 to 2014, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg. He has been a fellow at […]

Wolfgang Schuchert

Dr. Wolfgang Schuchert, Press and Public Relations, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne

Stefan Schwarzer

Dr. Stefan Schwarzer, physical geographer and permaculture designer, Schloss Tempelhof eG; worked for over 20 years for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Geneva, where he dealt with global environmental issues.

Hans Reinhard Seeliger

Prof. Dr. Hans Reinhard Seeliger, Professor of Ancient Church History, Patrology and Christian Archaeology, University of Tübingen (Catholic Theology)

Dieter Senghaas

Prof. Dr. Dieter Senghaas is a German political scientist and peace and conflict researcher. Senior Fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen.

Ralf Seppelt

Prof. Dr. Ralf Seppelt, Founding Director of the new Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems(LCSES), until 2025 Professor of Applied Landscape Ecology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ

Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva, Physicist, Ecologist, Head of the Research Foundation of Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Alternative Nobel Prize 1993, New Delhi (IND)

Lee M. Silver

Lee M. Silver is an American biologist. He is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology and at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Wolf Singer

Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer, Honorary Professor (emeritus) of Physiology and as such continues to head the “Singer-Emeritus-Department” of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main

Werner Sobek

Prof. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. Werner Sobek, architect and civil engineer, among others at the University of Stuttgart, founder of Werner Sobek AG and the Institute for Lightweight Design and Construction (ILEK)

Thomas Söding

Prof. Dr. Thomas Söding, former Professor of Biblical Theology at the Catholic Theological Seminary of the University of Wuppertal, later Dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Dirk Solte

Dr. Dirk Solte, economist and private lecturer in business administration, HSG St. Gallen

Bernd Sommer

Prof. Dr. Bernd Sommer, Professor of Environmental Sociology with a focus on transformation research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at TU Dortmund University.

James Gustave Speth

James Gustave Speth has held the Chair of Environmental Law and Ethics at Vermont Law School since 2010. Previously, he served as environmental advisor to Jimmy Carter in the White House, headed the largest UN program for international development, served as dean of the environmental faculty at Yale University and co-founded two of the most […]

Heinrich Stietencron

Prof. em. Dr. Heinrich von Stietencron was a German Indologist and religious scholar. He taught as Professor of Indology and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Tübingen.

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Volker Teichert

Dr. Volker Teichert, Scientific Advisor in the “Sustainable Development” department at the Research Institute of the Protestant Study Community (FEST)

Mariam Traore Chazalnoel

Mariam Traore Chazanoel, Senior Policy Officer with specific expertise on migration, environment and climate change at the United Nations Migration Agency (IOM). She has specialized in global policy issues related to climate change and migration since 2013 and works to make these issues visible in the global climate change and migration policy agendas.

Luise Tremel

Luise Tremel, former employee of FUTURZWEI. Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit and PhD student in the Transformation College of the Norbert Elias Center, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Managing Director INJU & Founder Club der guten Zukunft

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Halit Ãœnver

Dr. Halit Ãœnver, Member of the Board European Technology Chamber

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Milena Valeva

Prof. Dr. Milena Valeva, Professor of Nonprofit/NGO Management and Sustainable Regional Development, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld

Schaik Carel van

Prof. Dr. Carel van Schaik, Dutch zoologist and anthropologist, professor (emeritus) and former director of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology at the University of Zurich.

Johan van den Hoogen

Dr. Johan van den Hoogen, soil ecologist and data scientist with an interdisciplinary background in geodata science, molecular biology and ecology; staff member at the Chair of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zurich

Eckart Voland

Prof. Dr. Eckart Voland, Professor emeritus of Philosophy of Life Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen

Martin Volk

Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, geographer and geoecologist at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and deputy department head and working group leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig. His field of research is the evaluation of the influence of land use on the landscape water and material balance as well as biodiversity.

Gerhard Vollmer

Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Vollmer, German physicist and philosopher at the University of Braunschweig, who became known in particular for his work on evolutionary epistemology.

Gero von Böhm

Gero von Boehm is a German director, cultural and science journalist and television producer, a. o. at Interscience Film, ZDF, ARTE

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor of Biology, retired University President, from 1998 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the German Bundestag. From 2012 to 2018, he was Co-President of the Club of Rome.

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Friedrich Wagner

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wagner, German physicist and professor emeritus and former director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

Hermann-Josef Wagner

Prof. Dr. Hermann-Josef Wagner was a German electrical engineer, Professor of Energy Systems and Energy Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and an expert in energy systems and economics.

Peter Wagner

Prof. Dr. Peter Wagner, German social scientist, especially for sociological and political theory. He is a professor at the University of Barcelona and ICREA research professor (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) in Barcelona.

David L. Webster

David L. Webster PhD, Professor Emeritus of Archaeological Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania (USA)

Irene Weipert-Fenner

Dr. Irene Weipert-Fenner, Senior Research Fellow, Principal Investigator Research Initiative ConTrust: Trust in Conflict, PRIF – Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Frankfurt/Main

Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl

University Professor Dr. Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl, Professor of Innovation and Technology Management University of Kassel, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe

Maria J. Welfens

Dr. Maria J. Welfens, Wuppertal Institute since 1993; Project Manager in the Department of Material Flows and Structural Change, 1998 – 2003; Project Manager in the Research Group “Sustainable Production and Consumption”, since 2004

Paul J. J. Welfens

Prof. Dr. Paul J.J. Welfens, Professor of Economics, specializing in Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Jean Monnet Chair for European Economic Integration, Wuppertal

Harald Welzer

Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, Director of FuturZwei Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit, Professor of Transformation Design, University of Flensburg

Leonie Wenz

Prof. Dr. Leonie Wenz is head of the Social Change and Well-being Lab and deputy head of the Complexity Research Department at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She is Professor of Environmental Economics at the Technical University of Berlin.

Eva Wessela

Eva Wessela, speech scientist and linguist, former managing director of the Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen gGmbH

Klaus Wiegandt

Klaus Wiegandt, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stifter Forum für Verantwortung, Chairman of the Management Board until 2024. Klaus Wiegandt was Spokesman of the Management Board of METRO AG, member of the National Committee “Education for Sustainable Development” of the German UNESCO and received the Order of Merit of the Federal […]

Henning Wilts

Prof. Dr. Henning Wilts, Head of the Circular Economy Department, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH

Oda Wischmeyer

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Oda Wischmeyer (em.), Professor of New Testament (Literature and History of Early Christianity), University of Erlangen (Protestant Theology)

Lodewijk Woltjer

Prof. Lodewijk Woltjer, former Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics in Leiden, former Rutherford Professor of Astronomy and Head of the Astronomy Department at Columbia University (NY), former Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), former President of the International Astronomical Union, (NL)

Nico Wunderling

Prof. Dr. Nico Wunderling, Professor of Computational Earth System Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt; Scientist Earth Resilience Science Unit, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

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