The members of the Advisory Committee are:
Dr Gernot Erler (chairperson, former Minister of State), Freiburg
Professor Georg Cremer (vice-chairperson, former general secretary of Caritas), Freiburg
Margret Böhme (former chairperson), Freiburg
Bärbel Diekmann (former president of Deutsche Welthungerhilfe), Bonn
Dr Bernd Eisenblätter (former director, GIZ), Eschborn
Peter Friedrich (former minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Chief Executive of the Stuttgart Region Chamber of Handwerk), Stuttgart
Dr Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana (Member of the European Parliament)
Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Director German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)), Bonn
Professor Wolfgang Jäger (former rector of the University of Freiburg), Freiburg
Philipp Keil (managing director, Stiftung Entwicklungszusammenarbeit Baden-Württemberg)
Professor Klaus Leisinger (president of the Foundation Global Values Alliance), Basle
Dr Stefan Mair (Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Executive Chairman of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), Berlin
Professor Peter Molt (professor), Trier
Helmut Rau (former minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg), Stuttgart
Dr Dieter Salomon (managing director IHK Südlicher Oberrhein), Freiburg
Dr Ursula Schäfer-Preuss (former ministerial director Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development a.D.), Potsdam
Theresa Schopper (Minister of State at the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg)
Professor Kerstin Krieglstein-Unsicker (rector of the University of Freiburg), Freiburg
Georg Schmidt (Ambassador of Germany to South Korea), Seoul
Barbara Unmüßig (former president Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), Berlin
Peter Weiss (former MP), Berlin, Emmendingen
Professor Ernst U. M. Freiherr von Weizsäcker (former dean of Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California), Emmendingen