Ina Bartmann holds degrees in civil engineering, architecture/urban planning/urban landscape, environment and heritage conservation as well as human resource management. She completed her part-time doctorate at the University of Wuppertal. After working for three years as a department head at the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA), she was Chairwoman of the Board of the Brandenburg State Road Authority from 2023 to 2024.

Ina Bartmann has been State Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg since December 2024.

Gero Dimter studied law in Dresden and completed his legal clerkship in Berlin, where he passed his second state examination in 2003. He then worked as a lawyer before becoming a judge in Berlin in 2004. After working at the district court and various local courts, he was a consultant for justice and consumer protection in the Berlin office in Brussels from 2010 to 2012. Since 2013, Gero Dimter has been a member of a civil senate at the Berlin Court of Appeal, initially on secondment. Since April 2014, he has also headed the Administrative Department V in the Presidential Administration of the Court of Appeal.

Gero Dimter has been Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2019.

Anna Grebe studied literature, art and media studies and history at the University of Konstanz and the Universidad Nacional de C¨®rdoba/Argentina. She then completed her doctorate in Constance. Today she works as a consultant, speaker and moderator specialising in media, politics and participation. Since 2015, she has been supporting non-profit organisations, municipalities, ministries and associations in youth participation processes and is a member of the consulting firm "The Partners" in Berlin. She also works as a lecturer at various universities in the fields of media ethics and gender studies.

She is currently focussing on demographic and youth policy and girls' participation as well as aspects of participation in terms of power and democratic theory.

Norbert Lossau studied Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Bonn and G?ttingen, where he also gained his doctorate in 1991. He set up the G?ttingen Digitisation Centre in 1997 and moved to the University of Oxford, UK, in 2001 as founding director of the Oxford Digital Library. In 2002, he became director of the library at Bielefeld University. From 2006 to 2013, Norbert Lossau was Director of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in G?ttingen, and from 2013 to 2023 full-time Vice President for Digitisation and Infrastructures at the University of G?ttingen. In 2011, he was appointed Honorary Professor at Humboldt University Berlin.

Since 2023, Norbert Lossau has been the founding director of the umbrella initiative Hochschule.digital Niedersachsen.

Tino Mager studied media technology in Leipzig as well as art history and communication sciences in Berlin, Barcelona and Tokyo. After research stays in Japan and at the University of California, Los Angeles, he was a lecturer at TU Berlin and ITU Istanbul, a research assistant at the Chair of History and Theory of Architecture at TU Dortmund University, a Fellow of the Leibniz Association and the University of Queensland and a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft.

Tino Mager is Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Groningen and President of the German National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).

Frederike Masemann studied humanities and social sciences at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS), Australia. As a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, she completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with a research stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has been Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies since 2021 and Vice President for Studies and Teaching at HAW Hamburg since 2023. Her research and teaching focus on political communication, the role of journalism in social cohesion and public service broadcasting.

As Vice President, Frederike Masemann is the contact person for the cross-cutting topic of sustainability and heads the university-wide strategy project "HAW Hamburg 2030".

Nicole M¨¹nnich studied and completed her doctorate at Leipzig University's Department of History. She then held various management positions at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, including Head of the Presidential Department, Head of the Budget, Human Resources and Technology Department, Personal Assistant to the Vice President for Budget, Human Resources and Technology and Head of the Excellence Initiative Staff Unit. She then worked at the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) as head of the "Universities, Academic Centres, University Statistics, Digitisation, Teacher Training" department. She then headed the administration of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. as Managing Director.

Nicole M¨¹nnich has been Chancellor of Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences since 2024.

Florian Pfeffer studied communication design in W¨¹rzburg, Milan and Bremen. Since 1998, he has been the founder and managing director of the design studio one/one, which is active in the fields of visual communication and digital media. From 2003 to 2014, he was director of the :output Foundation, which organised an international competition for design and architecture and published a yearbook. He has also held guest professorships in the USA, the Netherlands and Lebanon and was Professor of Communication Design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2006 to 2012.

In 2023, together with his partner Friederike, he founded the start-up ito ito, which develops digital technologies to make industrial fashion production more sustainable, efficient and circular.

Godehard Ruppert studied philosophy, Catholic theology, education and journalism in Bochum, M¨¹nster and W¨¹rzburg, where he also gained his doctorate. After his habilitation, he worked as a university lecturer in educational science at the University of Hanover and as a professor of religious education at the University of Bamberg. He was President of the University of Bamberg from 2000 to 2020 and has been President of the Virtual University of Bavaria since 2002. Under his aegis, the University of Bamberg underwent a comprehensive structural reform.

As an expert in higher education policy and management, he was and is a member and chairman of numerous national and international organisations and advisory bodies, including the International Association of Universities, the Brandenburg State Higher Education Council and the University Councils of Budapest and Augsburg.

Stephan Swinka studied civil engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg Bergedorf and the University of Hamburg. He then worked in various marketing roles at Unilever and Mars, as a management consultant in the USA and elsewhere, and as a board member and CEO in the retail sector at Tchibo, Ernsting`s familiy and Takko fashion.

He has been involved in entrepreneurial activities for several years and supports companies and institutions as an advisor or in an advisory capacity.