2024

Klaas
Heufer-Umlauf
Heufer-Umlauf
TV Presenter of “Late Night Berlin”, TV Producer and Entrepreneur

Carla Rochel
Environmental Activist and Spokesperson for the Climate Movement “Letzte Generation”

Paul Preußen
Co-Founder of Digital8.ai

Sophie Bayern
Doctoral Candidate at Oxford University researching Justice, Human Rights and Global Health
2023

Katja Hoyer
Historian, Journalist and Author

Sir George Norton
Global Security Expert

Prof. Martin Riedmiller
Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning expert and Senior Researcher at DeepMind

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