2023
Anka Feldhusen
German Ambassador to Ukraine
2022
Ricarda Lang
Member of Parliament for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Dr. Markus Grüneisl
CEO of BMW UK Manufacturing and Swindon Pressings
Dr. Danyal Bayaz
State Minister of Finance in Baden-Württemberg
Ralph Caspers
TV Presenter, Actor and Author
Volker Kauder
Politician, Lawyer and former Leader of the Bundestagsfraktion CDU/CSU
Jan Bayer
Member of the Executive Board of Axel Springer SE
Martin Stratmann
Head of the Max Planck Society
Leon Windscheid
Psychologist and Author
Atze Schröder
Comedian
Markus Söder
Minister-President of Bavaria and Leader of the CSU
Alexander Weber
Chief Growth Officer at N26
2021
Christian Lindner
Leader of the FDP
Thomas de Maizière
German Politician (CDU)
Dunja Hayali
Journalist and Television Presenter
Reinhard Genzel
Astrophysicist and Academic
Aminata Touré
MP at Schleswig-Holstein’s State Parliament
Katrin Suder
Chair of the Advisory Council on Digitalisation
Mehmet Daimagüler
Lawyer, author and former FDP politician
Daniel Stelter
Economist, book author and podcast host
Kristina Lunz
Founder at Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
Paul Ostwald
Founder at Forum.eu
Phillip von der Wippel
Founder at ProjectTogether
Roman Rothärmel
Founder at Neurolytic Healthcare
Alexander Kurz
Executive Board Member of the Fraunhofer Society
Jörg Kukies
Secretary of State to the German Ministry of Finance
Tupoka Ogette and Stephen Lawson
Experts for Diversity and Antidiscrimination
Cornelia Funke
Author
Winfried Kretschmann
Minister President of Baden-Württemberg
Prof Dr Dr Alexander Görlach
Researcher, author and columnist
2020
Olaf Scholz
Vice Chancellor of Germany
Karl Lauterbach
MdB of the SPD
Ferdinand von Schirach
Lawyer and Writer
Dorothee Bär
State Minister for Digitalisation
Alexander Kekulé
Virologist
Timur Vermes
Journalist and Writer
Thomas Steffen
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health
Mirko Drotschmann
YouTuber and Journalist
Dani Kranz
Researcher on Migration and Antisemitism
Adam Zamoyski
Historian
Norman Davies
Historian
Alastair Buchan
Head of Brexit Strategy at Oxford University
Carola Rackete
Humanitarian Activist
Fabiola Gerpott
Chair of Leadership at the WHU
Eva Grill
Epidemiologist
Philipp Osten
Medical Historian
Marylyn Addo
Infectiologist
Helge Braun
Head of the Federal Chancellery
Andreas Michaelis
German Ambassador to the UK
2019
Katarina Barley
Vice President of the European Parliament
Carolin Kebekus
Stand-Up and TV Comedian
Peter Dabrock
Chariman of the German Ethics Council
Boris Palmer
Mayor of Tübingen
Peter Wittig
German Ambassador to the UK
Stefan Oschmann
CEO of Merck Group
Bernd Ulrich
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of DIE ZEIT
Andrea Schumacher
Vice President of the BAMF
Guido Heinen
Head of Research Services at Deutscher Bundestag
Martin Putsch
CEO of RECARO Group
Timon Ruban
Founder of luminovo.ai
Philip Banse
Journalist (Lage der Nation)
Ulf Buermeyer
Judge (Lage der Nation)
Friederike Otto
Acting Director of the Environmental Change Institute
Linus Mattauch
Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jürgen Wiebicke
Host of “Das Philosophische Radio”
Ansgar Kemmann
Head of Jugend Debattiert
Jonathan Wolff
British Philosopher and Blavatnik Chair in Public Policy
Alexandra Borchardt
Director of Leadership Programmes at the Reuters Institute Oxford
Stefan Enchelmaier
Professor of European and Comparative Law
Matthias Dilling
Lecturer in Comparative Politics
2018
Harald Schmidt
Actor, Writer, and TV Host
S. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Former German Justice Minister
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Climate Researcher
Claus Hipp
CEO of HiPP
Sir Paul Lever
Former British Ambassador to Germany
Anna Depenbusch
German Singer and Songwriter
Zana Ramadani
Writer and Feminist Activist
Konstantin Kuhle
MdB of the FDP
Ronja von Rönne
Writer, Blogger, and Journalist
Hans-Josef Fell
MdB of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
2017
Norbert Lammert
President of the Bundestag
Roland Koch
Minister President of Hesse
Rene Obermann
CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG
Dieter Althaus
Minister President of Thuringia
Jürgen Großmann
CEO of RWE
Philipp Amthor
Politician of the CDU
Frank Mastiaux
CEO of EnBW Energy
Wolfgang Silbermann
Head of Speechwriting for the President of Germany
Konstantin Mehl
CEO of Foodora
2016
Carsten Spohr
CEO of Lufthansa
Antonia Rados
Journalist
Julia Engelmann
Poetry Slammer and Actor
Mark Lynas
Environmental Activist
Christian Haller
Writer and Foreign Fighter
2015
Christian Wulff
President of Germany
Peer Steinbrück
MdB of the SPD
Ranga Yogeshwar
Science Journalist
Rupert Stadler
CEO of Audi
Benedict Wells
Writer
Barbara Salesch
TV Judge and Artist
Joachim Sauer
Quantum Chemist
Ilija Trojanow
Writer
2014
Armin Maiwald
Father of “Die Sendung mit der Maus”
Roland Berger
Founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Bernd Lucke
Founder of the AfD
Gerhard Polt
Cabaret Artist
Walter Straten
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of BILD
2013
Oliver Welke
Comedian and TV Presenter
Ole von Beust
Mayor of Hamburg
Margot Käßmann
Leader of the Evangelical Church in Germany
Mathias Döpfner
CEO of Axel Springer
2012
Andreas Voßkuhle
President of the German Constitutional Court
Gesine Schwan
Academic and SPD Politician
Hans-Olaf Henkel
BDI President
Clemens Fuest
Economist
2011
Edmund Stoiber
Minister President of Bavaria
Kai Diekmann
Editor-in-Chief of BILD
Claudia Roth
MdB of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Martin Walser
Writer
Peter Grünberg
Nobel Laureate
Arnulf Baring
Historian and Writer
Harald Christ
Entrepeneur
Stefan Krause
CFO Deutsche Bank
2010
Gregor Gysi
MdB of Die Linke
Martin Sonneborn
Satirist
Harald zur Hausen
Nobel Laureate
Daniel Kehlmann
Writer
Urban Priol
Comedian
2009
Hans-Peter Kaul
Judge at the ICC
Ernst Pöppel
Medical Psychologist
Henning Wehn
Comedian
Burkhard Wittek
Writer
Eckhard Lübkemeier
Diplomat
Before 2009
Christine Nüsslein-Volhard
Nobel Laureate
Jens Lehmann
Goalkeeper
Frank Mattern
Managing Partner at McKinsey Germany