Dr. Mariam Akhtar-Schuster
DesertNet International

Dr. Steffen Bauer
Scientific Assistant, German Development Institute (DIE)

Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun
Director, ZEF-Center for Development Research

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Broll
University of Osnabrück, Institute of Geography

Christine Chemnitz
Department Head, International Agrarian Policy, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Walter Engelberg
Head of the GIZ Project to Combat Desertification – (CCD Project)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Bernt Farcke
Head of Directorate 52 „Sustainability and Renewable Resources“
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMEL)

Uwe Fritsche
Scientific Director, International Institute for Sustainable Analysis and Strategy (IINAS)

Dr. Frank Glante
Head of Section „Soil Quality, Soil Monitoring”
Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

Dr. Irene Heuser
Deputy Chair of Sustainable Use of Soils and Desertification Specialist Group, Commission on Environmental Law, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Reinhard Kaiser
Head of Directorate WR III „Ecological Resource Efficiency, Soil Conservation“, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)

Dr. Hildegard Kurt
Initiator and Director of und.Institut for Art, Culture and Sustainability

Prof. Dr. Franz Makeschin
Dresden University of Technology; National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt
Policy Advisor “One World No Hunger”, “Ernährungssicherung, ländliche Entwicklung, Landwitschaft ESÜH”
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Dr. Bernd Uwe Schneider
Head of Scientific Executive Board, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Scholten
Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, University of Tuebingen
President, Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft (DBG)

Ingo Valentin
Spokesperson of Bundesarbeitskreises Bodenschutz/Altlasten,
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND)

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann
Deutscher Naturschutzring

Prof. Dr. Dr. Berndt-Michael Wilke
President Bundesverband Boden, Technical University Berlin, Institute of Ecology

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hubert Wiggering
Director of Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung e. V. (ZALF)
Spokesperson of Deutsche Agrarforschungsallianz (DAFA)
University of Potsdam

Marita Wiggerthale
Policy Advisor „Global Trade Issues, Food Policy”, Oxfam Deutschland e.V.

Michael Windfuhr
Deputy Director of the German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR)