Since December 2000, the Institute's work has been supported and promoted by an advisory board. Its task is to represent the interests of the Institute at various levels of society and politics. The Advisory Board is formed by personalities from politics, business, science and society.
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
Martin Horn (Mayor of the City of Freiburg)
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 Kerstin Krieglstein-Unsicker (rector of the University of Freiburg), Freiburg
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
Georg Schmidt (Ambassador of Germany to South Korea), Seoul
Theresa Schopper (Minister of State at the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg)
Barbara Unmüßig (former president Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), Berlin
Peter Weiss (former MP), Berlin, Emmendingen