The twelve sessions of the conference are organised by a scientific advisory board consisting of 15 renowned researchers.
HANNOVER:
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Wolfgang Wahlster
(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken)
Andreas Knie
(Social Science Research Center Berlin)
Stephan Klasen
(Chair of Development Economics, University of Göttingen)
Axel Haverich
(Medizinische Hochschule Hannover)
Jutta Limbach
(former President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Karsruhe)
Dieter Grimm
(former Rector of the Institute for Advanced Study - Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
ESSEN:
Reinhard Hüttl
(German Research Centre for Geosciences, also at Potsdam)
Fritz Klocke
(Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Aachen)
Ludger Pries
(Universtity of Bochum)
Klaus J. Bade
(Chairman of the Expert Panel of German Foundations on Integration and Migration)
Karl Lenhard Rudolph
(Universität Ulm)
Volker Kreibich
(TU Dortmund)
Hans Joas
(Max-Weber Kolleg, Erfurt)