Holger Börner was a German politician of the SPD. He was Minister-President of Hesse from 1976 until 1987. As such he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1986/87, but only served until the Landtag elections of 24 April 1987 Afterwards (until 2003) he was chairman of the ":de:Friedrich Ebert Stiftung", the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, also known as (FES).

Bogdan Musial is German historian of Polish background specializing in history of the Second World War. Bogdan Musial was born 1960 in Wielopole. In 1985 he seeked and received political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1992 he was naturalized. From 1990 to 1998 he studied history, political sciences and sociology in Hanover and Manchester. 1998 he graduated with a thesis on the treatment of Jews in occupied Poland.

Klaus W. Bender is a German financial journalist and author, best known for writing the book "Moneymakers: The Secret World of Banknote Printing". He was born in 1938 in Darmstadt, county of Hesse. Bender studied economics at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and, later, at University of Cologne, financing his entire studies by working as a factory hand and office clerk. After graduation in 1964, with an MA in business administration, …

Ahmed Badawi is the Project Director (Israel/Palestine) for ORG’s Inclusive Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He is a Research Associate at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS. He is also a Research Associate and Co-Project Director at the Institute of Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2001-05 he was Research Associate at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

Ebert was re-elected again by the Reichstag in 1922 and was widely respected as hsaead of state by the people, but was confronted with considerable opposition from his political adverries. He ma- naged to provide some continuity in German politics during the troubled early years of the republic marked by one government rapidly succeeding the other, insurrections by the left and right, calamitous inflation and the occupation of the Ruhr by the French.

Mr Wittkowsky joined the EU Pillar in 2001 as an Economic Policy Advisor. He took over the newly established Political and Legal Office in August 2003 and the Economic Policy Office in February 2005. In October 2006, he was appointed Deputy Head of the EU Pillar.

Felicia Roman Felicia Roman graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1984 after completing a Bachelor of Arts and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education. She taught Geography at secondary school level for the first 5 years of her career. After lecturing at the University of Namibia in 1990 she moved from education into the field on socio-economic development.

Bernt Berger studied Sociology at the University of Economics and Politics in Hamburg and attained the diploma in 1996. From 1995 to 1996 he studied Mandarin at the Beijing Language and Culture University. He earned his MSc in Theory and History of International Relations from the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Hans-Georg Ehrhart , born in 1955 in Bonn, studied Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and earned his Dr. phil. in 1986 about the topic “The German question from the French view”.

Dieter Dettke Ph.D. in Political Science, Free University of Berlin Dr. Dettke has been Executive Director of the Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation since 1985. Prior to coming to Washington, he served as political counselor of the SPD Parliamentary Group of the German Bundestag (1974-84). As a specialist in foreign and security policy, Dr. Dettke has published widely on security issues, East-West relations, and U.S. foreign and domestic policy.

Thorsten Benner Thorsten Benner is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. His areas of expertise include international organizations (with a particular focus on the United Nations system), EU-US relations, corporate social responsibility and the public-private interface in global governance.

Professor Adrian Hyde-Price is Professor of International Politics. He has previously lectured at the Universities of Leicester, Birmingham, Southampton and Manchester, and was a Research Fellow on the International Security Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House, London).

Joerg Wolf is project manager and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Community. Jörg studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and worked as a research associate for the International Risk Policy project at the Free University's Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy. He has been a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Washington DC and has worked for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Cairo and in Berlin.

Andrea Binder Andrea Binder is a Project Associate with GPPi Consulting, the consulting practice of the Global Public Policy Institute. Her areas of expertise include international security, development cooperation, and humanitarian assistance.

Jan Martin Witte Research Associate Global Public Policy Project Jan Martin Witte is a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Project and an ERP-Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. Jan Martin holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, School for Advanced International Studies (M.A. in International Relations and International Economics) and the University of Potsdam (Germany, Diploma in Political Science).

Sabine Kurtenbach is a political scientist with a Ph.D. from Hamburg University. She is a senior researcher at the Institute für Ibero-American Studies Hamburg and consultant in development policies for various German agencies of development cooperation, including the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Cooperation, GTZ, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.