Prof. Lisa Anderson

Past President of The American University in Cairo; Dean Emerita of The School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Udo Corts

Former State Minister for Science and Arts in Hesse

Prof. Dr. Catherine E. de Vries

Professor of Politics at Bocconi University in Milan

Dr. Michael Endres

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie Foundation; former Member of the Board of Deutsche Bank AG

Prof. Marcel Fratzscher

President of DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research); Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Humboldt-University Berlin

Daniel Gyamerah

Chair EOTO; Board member neue deutsche organisationen – das postmigrantische netzwerk e.V.

Dr. Anna Herrhausen

Executive Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Dr. Katrin Krömer

Board member Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit)

Prof. Brigid Laffan

Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

Frank Mattern

Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Managing Director at Frank Mattern Advisory and Investments; Director Emeritus at McKinsey and Company

Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers

Professor of Public Law and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-University Berlin; Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin

Dr. Markus Richter

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community; Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology

Dr. Norbert Röttgen

Member of German Parliament; former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Dr. Katrin Suder

Fellow at the Hertie School; Senior Advisor at FGS Global

Dr. Hans-Jürgen Urban

Member of the Executive Committee, IG Metall

Dr. h.c. Frank-J. Weise

Chairman of the Hertie Foundation

Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf †

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Former Prime Minister of Saxony

Franz Baumann

Assistant Secretary-General (ret.), United Nations, New York

Prof. Franziska Brantner

Member of German Parliament; Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Clement

former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia; Federal Minister of Economics and Labour

Dr. Peter Frey

former editor-in-chief, ZDF

Janina Kugel

Senior Advisor with Boston Consulting Group

Claudia Müller

Founder at Female Finance Forum

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Schön

Director, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance; former Vice President, Max Planck Society

Thomas Oppermann †

Member of the German Parliament; former Vice-President of the German Bundestag; former Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group; former State Minister for Science and Culture, Lower Saxony

Bruno Le Maire

former Minister of the Economy and Finance of France; Former Representative at the National Assembly of France; former Secretary of State for European Affairs of France; Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing of France

Dr. h.c. Alison Smale

former bureau chief of The New York Times in Berlin

Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert

Emeritus Professor Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Dr. Klaus Mangold

former Chairman of the German Eastern Business Association (Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft); former Supervisory Board Chairman of Rothschild GmbH; former Supervisory Board Chairman of TUI AG

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel

Rector of Heidelberg University

Prof. Mary Kaldor

Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit Civil Society, London School of Economics and Political Science

Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ischinger

former chairman of the Munich Security Conference;German ambassador to the United States und the United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio

former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Second Senate); Professor for Public Administration at Bonn University

Dr. John Feldmann

former Chairman of the Supervisory Board (2012 - 2014); former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hertie Foundation; former board member BASF SE

Dr. Marcus Schenck

Board member and CFO of E.ON AG

Guido Goldman †

Co-founder and former director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University; Founding chair and chairman of the board, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen

former president of Hamburg University, former president of FU Berlin

Dr. Manfred Overhaus †

former State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance

Dr. Ursula Weidenfeld

former editor-in-chief of "Impulse"; former deputy editor-in-chief of "Der Tagesspiegel"; freelance journalist and author

Dr. Bernhard Wunderlin

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hertie Foundation; former Chairman of Harald Quandt Holding GmbH

Aleksander Kwaśniewski

Former President of Poland

Prof. Jobst Plog

former Chairman of Norddeutscher Runkfunk (NDR); former President of ARTE; Professor for Media Law, University of Rostock

Prof. Dr. Fritz W. Scharpf

Professor Emeritus for Political Science; Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

Prof. Dr. Hans N. Weiler

Professor Emeritus for Political Science, Stanford University; former President of European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder