Former Member of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Swisttal

Head of the Committee for European Affairs and Development Policy of the Parliament of Brandenburg, Potsdam

President of Welthungerhilfe, Bonn

Bärbel Dieckmann is president of Welthungerhilfe. She was mayor of Bonn from 1994 to 2009. Since 1972, she has been a member of the SPD. Between 2003 and 2009 she was a member of the executive board of the SPD and from 1999 to 2009 she was a member of the party executive. Her political activities have focused on environmental and development policy as well as youth, family welfare and education policy. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Development and Peace Foundation (SEF) and the German Sustainability Award Foundation. She is also a member of the advisory board for the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute and of DGVN’s presidium (United Nations Association of Germany). Among other things, she was chairperson of the World Mayors' Council on Climate Change (founded on the occasion of the 11th Conference on the Parties on Climate Change), executive president of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (Brussels) and member of the policy committee of the Association of German Cities. Bärbel Dieckmann studied philosophy, history and social sciences at the University of Bonn and was a teacher between 1974 and 1995, most recently as director of studies at a comprehensive school and grammar schools. She has held the position of honorary president of Welthungerhilfe since 2008.

Member of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Brussels

Former Member of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Honorary Professor for Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn

Professor Uwe Holtz (born 1944) is honorary professor for Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn. From 1972/73 to 1994/95 he was member of the German Bundestag and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. For 20 years he chaired the Bundestag Committee for Economic Cooperation.

Head of Department Universal Church in the Diocese Münster

Since 2006 Ulrich Jost-Blome is the head of the Department Universal Church, the center of international relations in the Diocese Münster. Missionary work, voluntary service in foreign countries, financial support of projects, fair trade and partnerships are only a few fields of action of the department.

Furthermore, Ulrich Jost-Blome holds the position of a vice chairman of One World Network North Rhine-Westphalia. He is also a member of the Council of the Foundation Environment and Development North Rhine-Westphalia. 

Director of the GIZ-Representation Berlin

Director of Studies
Democratic Culture and Church
The Protestant Academy Berlin
Member of the Advisory Board
of the Development and Peace Foundation (sef:)

Berlin

Potsdam

State Secretary in the Ministry for Justice, Europe and Consumer Protection of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Potsdam

Anne Quart is State Secretary for Europe and Consumer Protection of the Federal state of Brandenburg. Political coordination of European policies, external relations and development policy are part of her task scope.

Previously, she worked as a specialist in the field of International labour relations at the Volkswagen Group and the Metalworkers Union in Wolfsburg, was head of International policy department at the headquarters of the Party DIE LINKE and Parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament.

Bonn

Permanent secretary at the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises

Christian Rickerts is the state secretary for Energy and Digital Affairs in the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, with a background in political science. He is co-founder of the Association Schüler Helfen Leben and was later the Director of the Foundation with the same name. From 2009-2012, Christian Rickerts served as the Managing Director at Reporters Without Boarders in Germany. Later he became the Vice President Corporate Communications at the Bertelsmann Foundation and in 2015 the Executive Chairman for Wikimedia Germany.

Deputy Director of the German Development Institute (DIE – Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik), Bonn

Dr. Imme Scholz is deputy director of the German Development Institute (DIE – Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik). Between 2002-2009, she was head of the environmental department at DIE where she set up a team working on adaptation to climate change. She has published extensively on climate change and development; capacity development in environment; institutional development and environmental policy in developing countries; natural resource management, particularly sustainable forest use

In the 1980s, she studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin where she also obtained the degree of Dr. phil. for a thesis on the determinants for entrepreneurial innovation capacity in the Amazon tropical timber industry. She started her professional career as assistant to the economic attaché of the Chilean Embassy in Bonn (1990 – 1992) and became a research fellow at DIE in 1992. Between 1999 and 2002, she was on leave and worked as an environmental policy advisor in the Brazilian Amazon for German development cooperation.

Managing Director, Verband Entwicklungspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe e.V. (VENRO), Berlin/Bonn

Heike Spielmans is Managing Director of the Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO), which represents the interests of over 100 NGOs nationwide, since June 2008.

From 1994 to 1998, Heike Spielmans was active in the field of youth work as national director of the German Youth Society for Nature Conservation (NABU). From 1998 to 2002 Heike Spielmans was responsible for the area “Northern Development Policy" at terre des hommes Germany as division manager and member of the executive board. In 2002 she became Head of the Communication Department..

Member of the European Committee of the Saxon State Parliament, Dresden

Octavian Ursu, born in 1967 in Bucharest, has been living in Görlitz since 1990, where he got involved in local political affairs very early. In the autumn of 2014 the former musician got elected to the Saxon Parliament, where he became vice chairman of the Working Committee of Science and Higher Education, Culture and Media as well as member of the European Committee. Furthermore he was appointed to the curatorship of the “Sächsischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung” (State Committee of Political Education) and is member of the Saxon Cultural Senate.

Berlin

Former Minister of State, Euskirchen

Chair of the Committee on Petition of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf