Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Uwe Bicker (Bensheim): scientist, dean of the Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, member of the Conseil d´Administration of Sanofi SA, Paris, in the Aventis Foundation and chairman of the board of trustees at Marburg University
Regional Bishop Tobias Bilz (Dresden) Theologian and since March 2020 Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony (EvLKS). From 1991 to 2007, he served as pastor of the Erlbach-Kirchberg parish near Stollberg in the Ore Mountains and also as youth pastor in the Stollberg church district since 2001. From 2007 to 2018, Tobias Bilz was the full-time regional youth pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony. After that, he was head of the department for congregational development in the Lutheran Church of Saxony.
Prof. Dr. theol. Kirsten Busch Nielsen (Copenhagen, DK): Danish theologian, Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen since 2008, Dean at the Faculty of Human Sciences since 2021.
Heinrich Otto Deichmann (Essen): Studied economics, history, theology and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1984. Has worked for DEICHMANN SE since 1989; since 1999 successor to his father Heinz-Horst Deichmann as head of the company. Engaged through the Deichmann Foundation or the social missionary aid organization "wortundtat", which he heads and which promotes the establishment of social diaconal institutions in Africa, Moldova, Greece and Germany. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation and the German National Foundation.
Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer (Jena): Managing Director of the Abbe Institute for Foundations at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, holder of the Chair of Civil Law, Labor Law, Civil Procedure Law and Theory of Law at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Stiftungs- und Vereinswesen (ZStV) (Journal for Foundations and Associations), many years of experience as a lawyer, labor law consultant, in company conciliation boards and as a mediator in collective bargaining, organizer of the German Mediation Days 2010-2014, extensive lecturing activities.
Christiane Goetz-Weimer (Gmund am Tegernsee): Journalist, publisher and managing director of WEIMER MEDIA GROUP GmbH. She was political editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 2001, she founded CH. GOETZ VERLAG and, in 2012, together with her husband, the Weimer Media Group. Goetz-Weimer heads the Ludwig Erhard Summit, an annual economic meeting held at Lake Tegernsee.
Archbishop em. Dr. Antje Jackelén (Lund, Sweden): From 2014 to October 2022 Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, previously Bishop of the Diocese of Lund; from 2003 to 2007 Professor of Systematic Theology and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, USA. Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Greifswald, the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and Virginia Theological Seminary; author of numerous books.
Sebastian von Kloch-Kornitz (Weimar): Managing partner of both Terra Madre Consulting GmbH and Neues Kloster Ichtershausen (NKI) GmbH & Co. KG. Managing Director of the Christian Collegiate Foundation (SCC), former head of office of the Martin Luther Foundation, one of the initiators of the JugendUnternimmt ("Youth Undertakes") project, he is a graduate in administration.
Regional Bishop Friedrich Kramer (Magdeburg): Regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany. Previously, he was director of the Saxony-Anhalt Protestant Academy and director of studies for theology and politics.
Dr. phil. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller (Ditzingen): CEO of the TRUMPF Group, vice-chair of the board of trustees of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation
Johann Michael Möller (Halle/Saale): political scientist, historian, journalist; broadcasting-director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR radio)
Prof. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Nils Ole Oermann (Berlin): Historian, theologian, lawyer, personal assistant to the Federal President Dr Horst Köhler from 2004 to 2007. Professor of sustainability ethics at Leuphana University, member of the Executive Board and Vice-President of the College, Director of the Research Department "Religion, Politics and Economics" at Humboldt University Berlin.
Pastor Ulrich Pohl (Bielefeld): Chairman of the Board of the v.Bodelschwinghschen Stiftungen Bethel, previously pastor and superintendent of the Lippische Landeskirche.
Gergely Pröhle (Budapest, Hungary): has been the national curator of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary since 2006. As director of the Otto von Habsburg Foundation, he manages the estate of the European politician and son of the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. In 1998, he was appointed State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. From 2000 to 2002, Pröhle was Hungary's ambassador to Germany and then ambassador to Switzerland until 2005. As State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pröhle was responsible for relations with EU countries from 2010 before moving to the Ministry of Social Resources as State Secretary in 2014.
Reinhard Quast (Siegen): Chairman of the Executive Board of OTTO QUAST Bau AG and President of the Central Association of the German Construction Industry since 2018.
Dr. theol. Christoph Rösel (Stuttgart): Theologian and university lecturer, General Secretary of the German Bible Society and co-editor of the BasisBibel.
Prof. Dr. theol. Christopher Spehr (Munich): Theologian, Luther and Reformation researcher, holder of the Chair of Church History II at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, editor of the Luther Yearbook.
Dr. Markus Spieker (Leipzig): Author, journalist and historian with a doctorate. From 2014 to 2018, he was ARD's (German public-service broadcaster) correspondent for South Asia. Since his return to Germany, he has been working at MDR (Central German public-service broadcaster) in Leipzig.