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László Andor is Secretary General of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin and Visiting Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He served as EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion from 2010-2014. Between 2005 and 2010, he was a member of the board of directors at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, representing Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Croatia.
Yvonne Blos is a policy advisor and coordinator of the globalization project at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin. Her focus lies on sustainable development, international cooperation, development and climate policy.
Francesca Bria is a digital and innovation policy Expert. She is an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London and a Senior Fellow at Stiftung Mercator in Berlin, where she leads the EuroStack Initiative on Europe’s Digital Sovereignty. She is part of the New European Bauhaus high-level roundtable of the European Commission.
Claudia Detsch is the director of the FES Competence Centre Climate and Social Justice in Brussels. Specialized in labor and industrial sociology, she also brings long-standing expertise in energy, climate, and international politics. Claudia analyses the effects of industrial and geopolitical change and advises on economic and foreign policy issues. Her previous roles include Editor-in-Chief of the IPG Journal and Director of Nueva Sociedad in Buenos Aires.
Sebastian Dullien is Research Director at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf and Professor for International Economics at HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences, Berlin.
Matthias Ecke is a politician and a Member of the European Parliament since 2022. After serving in Berlin and Dresden, most recently at the Saxon Ministry of Economy, he was elected to the European Parliament. There he works on industrial policy, digitalization, and investment matters. He is a member of the Committee on Industry and the Committee on Budgets, as well as the deputy chair of the Subcommittee on Tax Matters.
Yasmin Fahimi is Chairwoman of the German Trade Union Confederation and Chairwoman of the Hans Böckler Foundation. Previously, she was General Secretary of the SPD, Permanent State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and a member of the German Bundestag.
Sabine Fandrych has been Secretary General and Managing Board Member of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung since July 2021. Previously, she headed the Political Academy division of FES since 2017. From 2010 to 2016 she was director of the FES state office in Baden-Württemberg. In the years 2007 - 2010, Sabine Fandrych was the country director of the FES in Ethiopia, where she also built up cooperation with the African Union. She began her work abroad as a seconded employee of the foundation from 2000 - 2004 and 2006 - 2007 as head of the FES office in Angola.
Carmen Giovanazzi is the publishing director of Brumaire Verlag, including the Jacobin und Surplus magazine. She is a political economist and wrote her doctoral thesis on the German corporate model at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Previously, she was a research assistant on financial policy at the German parliament, ran the office of an MP and was senior advisor on inequality at Forum New Economy. Her research interests include corporate governance, macroeconomics, comparative political economy and economic policy.
Vera Gohla is Policy Advisor for Economic and Structural Policy at FES’ Analysis, Planning and Consulting Department in Berlin. Previously, she worked in the office of the party leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, as well as at a political communication consultancy and a business association. In her studies of European and International Politics she focused on political economy, security policy and social inequality
Maja Göpel is a political economist, transformation expert, and sustainability researcher. She is a professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg, founder of “Mission Wertvoll,” and a podcaster for “Neu Denken”. She used to be the Director of Research at The New Institute and Secretary-General of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Before that, she headed the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, after having helped set up the World Future Council for six years as Director Future Justice at the Brussels office and as Campaign Manager Climate Energy in Hamburg.
Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School and Chair of the Advisory Council of Das Progressive Zentrum. Her research focuses on the interplay between the governance of business systems, the labor market and social policy. She was the academic director from 2016 till 2019 of the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation. She served as an expert on the Bundestag’s Inquiry Committee on Growth, Prosperity and Quality of Life (2012‑2013); was part of the expert commission on the future of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2015‑2017); and chaired the expert group “Workers’ Voice and Good Corporate Governance in Transnational Companies in Europe” (2015‑2018). In 2019 she was a member of the Federal Government’s High‑Tech Forum.
Frauke Heiligenstadt is a member of the German Bundestag and the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson on fiscal policy. She serves on the group’s leadership board and is deputy chair of the Lower Saxony/Bremen state group. Additionally, she is a member of the Finance Committee, a deputy member of the Committee on Research, Technology, Space Affairs and Technology Assessment, and a deputy member of the Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Municipal Affairs. Previously, she held the office of Minister of Culture in Lower Saxony and was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament.
Maurice Höfgen is an economist, author, and YouTuber. He runs the YouTube channel “Geld für die Welt,” has written several books such as “Der Neue Wirtschaftskrieg,” and is the editor of the magazine Surplus.
Julia Jirmann is a tax law and tax policy advisor with the network Steuergerechtigkeit, responsible for the wealth, inheritance and high‑income area. She also serves on the commission of the German Lawyers’ Association on “Social Security Law & Family Burden Equalisation”. Previously, she worked for KPMG AG in the International Tax department and for the German Taxpayers’ Association. She studied Business Law (LL.M.) at Martin‑Luther‑University Halle‑Wittenberg and earned degrees in Economics and Business Administration in Leipzig and Bangkok.
Patrick Kaczmarczyk is an economist at the University of Mannheim at the Centre for Transformation, and a consultant for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in the Productive Capacities unit of the Africa, LDC and Special Programmes Division (ALDC).
Lars Klingbeil is the Federal Minister of Finance, Vice Chancellor, and Chairman of the SPD. Additionally, he is Deputy Chair of the Lower Saxony/Bremen State Group. Previously, he served as the parliamentary group leader and Secretary General of the SPD. He was also a scholarship recipient of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Tim Klüssendorf is the Secretary General of the SPD, a member of the German Bundestag since 2021, and the spokesperson for the parliamentary left wing within the SPD parliamentary group. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Hamburg. From 2010 to 2012 he chaired the Jusos (Young Socialists) in Lübeck, and from 2010 to 2017 he served on the executive board of the SPD in Lübeck.
Stefan Körzell has been a member of the DGB’s Executive Federal Board since 2014. In 2018, he was re‑elected to this position by the delegates of the 21st Ordinary Federal Congress. He began his professional career with an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at Rotenburger Metallwerke (RMW) in Rotenburg / Fulda. In 2002, Stefan Körzell was elected as the DGB’s state chairman for Hesse and as the chair of the DGB district covering Hesse‑Thuringia.
Neil Lee is Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE and a Fellow of CIFAR. He leads the LSE International Inequalities Institute’s Cities network and is an Associate Member at Nuffield College, Oxford. His award-winning research on innovation, economic development, and place-based policy has included publications in leading academic journals and advisory work for numerous international organisations His 2024 book Innovation for the Masses was featured as one of the Financial Times' best new books in economics.
Clara E. Mattei is a professor of economics at The University of Tulsa and Founding President of the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. She was previously associate professor at The New School for Social Research Economics Department and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Her research contributes to the analysis and history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making.
She is the winner of the Hans Matthöfer Prize for her book “Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism”.
Christian Mölling is the founder and director of the think‑tank European Defence in a New Age (EDINA). His focus areas are security, defence, international relations and the European Union. Previously, he served as senior advisor at the European Policy Centre, director for Europe at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, and deputy director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.).
Carl Mühlbach is the founder and chairman of the non-profit association FiscalFuture, which campaigns in the interest of young people by demanding sustainable fiscal policy. Previously, he studied economics in Heidelberg and Cambridge and worked at the Federal Ministry of Finance. He was named one of the top 40 under 40 by Capital magazine in 2023.
Adam Posen has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2013. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has contributed to research and public policy regarding monetary and fiscal policies in the G-20, the challenges of European integration since the adoption of the euro, China-US economic relations, and developing new approaches to financial recovery and stability. He previously served at the Federal Reserve Board, where he was a senior fellow and director of the Global Economic Policy Center.
Maike Rademaker is a moderator and freelance journalist and writes for Die Zeit, among others. She was previously an editor at the Financial Times Germany for twelve years. From 2014 to 2018, she was also Head of Public Relations at the German Trade Union Confederation.
Sebastian Roloff is a member of the German Bundestag and serves as the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic policy. In Parliament he sits on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and is a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. He also holds a range of party and advisory positions: he is a member of the SPD’s national executive board and co‑chair of the SPD in Bavaria; he acts as the group’s economic‑policy spokesperson and as deputy spokesperson on queer policy; he sits on the advisory board of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and is a deputy member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education; additionally, he serves as a board member of the Forum DL21 and is part of the Parliamentary Left faction within the SPD parliamentary group.
Martin Schulz is President of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. From 2017 to 2021 he was a Member of the German Bundestag. He was party chairman of the SPD, candidate for chancellor-ship and longtime member of the European Parliament, where he served as president in two terms from 2012 to 2017.
Martin Schulz is a laureate of the Charlemagne Prize for his outstanding contribution to the strengthening of the European Parliament and democratic legitimacy in the EU.
Dennis Tänzler is a member of the executive management at adelphi global. His work focuses on climate and energy policy as well as foreign and security policy. Since the year 2000, he has contributed to numerous national and international research and advisory projects and has published extensively on issues of international environmental and development policy.
Sonja Thielges is a member of the research group Global Issues and of the Climate‑Policy research cluster at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. From 2022 to 2024 she led the interdisciplinary research group “Industrial Decarbonisation Strategies” at the Institute for Sustainability, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. Since 2020 she has been a Geo-economics Non‑Resident Fellow at the American‑German Institute.
Achim Truger is Professor of Socioeconomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, member of the German Council of Economic Experts, and Senior Research Fellow at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) within the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf.
Armand Zorn is a member of the German Bundestag and deputy parliamentary group leader of the SPD faction. In 2021 he worked as a consultant and project manager at the German Development Agency (GIZ), focusing on introducing sustainable economic models through new technologies. From 2015 to 2021 he was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH, advising companies on digital transformation, risk management and compliance with regulatory requirements.
