Ilse Aigner was born in 1964 and grew up in Feldkirchen-Westerham. After successfully completing her vocational training as a radio and television technician and then qualifying as a state-certified electrical engineer, she joined the development department of eurocopter in 1990. In 1994, she was elected to the Bavarian Landtag (State Parliament) for the first time and continued to be a member of parliament until 1998. Between 1998 and 2013 she was a member of the German Bundestag

Markus Bodenmeier has been an entrepreneur, investor and venture philanthropist for more than 20 years. He focuses on business process outsourcing for industrial companies. One of his significant financial successes was the reverse IPO of HPI AG, a leading European industrial service provider in procurement and logistics. Currently, Mr. Bodenmeier’s holding PSBG is actively invested in several high-tech startups and Eprolog AG, a consulting and procurement company.

Dr. Bozesan is an integral impact investor, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, and researcher. Based on Ken Wilber’s integral theory, she developed the Theta model and successfully implemented the parity between people, planet, and profit in early stage investing through the integration of financial, ecological, and social sustainability with cultural, behavioral, and human consciousness factors. She is a full international member in the Club of Rome and serves as a strategic advisor on integral finance and sustainability to various funds, businesses, and governmental organizations.

Dr. J. Daniel Dahm is CEO of United Sustainability Group, an investment and consultancy company emphasizing strategic impact investment for sustainable development. Above this, he is Vice Director of the European Centre for Sustainability Research ECS, Zeppelin University; Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies IASS, Potsdam; Chairman of the Jury at Internorga Trade Fair at Hamburg Messe u. Congress HMC;

Candace Johnson is a co-founder of SES, the world’s pre-eminent satellite group and the architect of SES Global. She is also the founder of various companies as Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe’s first independent private trans-border satellite communications network, and Europe Online, the world's first Internet-based online service and a founding investor and Member of the Board of Kacific, the high-throughput Satellite Internet System for the Pacific.

Dr. Charly Kleissner is an impact investor. He believes that the fundamental and deeper meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. He argues that Modern Portfolio Theory has to be re-conceptualized to integrate impact. He sees impact investing not as an intellectual exercise, but as an expression of who he really is.

Deniz MISIR is a global family office and family wealth specialist. Deniz is a purpose-driven entrepreneur, who established Turkey’s first internationally operating trusted advisory (virtual Multi Family Office) company V22 International Advisory J. S. Co. in 2013. V22’s mission is “Family Well-being and Prosperity; Bigger Family being the World herself” and serves families with “Family Wealth Planning; Wealth Investing Strategy and Family Governance”.

Deniz frequently contributes in global family office, private wealth, and family business conferences and brings in the “expert generalist” know-how from both the developed

Gunter Pauli is a serial entrepreneur who has been named by the Huffington Post "The Steve Jobs of Sustainability". Since 1994 he directs ZERI (a think tank of 3,000 researchers) and The Blue Economy (a do tank of 850 implementors). ZERI has been recognized by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the ten most creative and innovative policy research organizations in the world. He has written 15 books,

Mazal Renford, International Development Consultant; former Director of the Golda Meir International Training Center in Israel; honored with a Women of Consequence Award.

Under the auspices of Israel's Agency for International Cooperation  she has organized hundreds of training programs in Israel and throughout the world, designed to promote women's leadership, socio-economic development and youth entrepreneurship.

Dr. Andreas Rickert is CEO and founder of PHINEO and incubated the organization as Director of the former program ‘civil society’ at Bertelsmann Foundation. Andreas also worked as Senior Governance Specialist at the World Bank in Washington D.C. Prior to this he was Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc. globally working on public sector and healthcare projects in Bahrain, The Netherlands, UK and Switzerland. He studied Biology and did his Ph.D.

Professor Schäfer is the Chairholder of the Chair of Finance at the University of Stuttgart. Previous to his current occupation at the University he belonged to the top management as Senior Financial Consultant in an international consulting firm and in a major German bank.
Prof. Schafer’s main focus in research is on the valuation of assets, in particular regarding real options and with non-financial parameters, economic analysis of networks,

Josef Schmid, born September 27, 1969, studied business administration and law at the University of Passau and in Munich. Until 2014, he worked as a lawyer and partner at a medium-sized law firm. From 2002 to 2014, he served as an unsalaried City Councilor for the City of Munich, chairing the City Council's CSU political group from 2007 onward.

Thomas Schulz has been a serial entrepreneur and investor for more than 25 years. He founded Cybernet AG, Germany's first nationwide Internet service provider which became Germany's first publicly listed Internet company. In 2010 he co-founded Entelios AG, Germany's first smart grid provider which was sold to the worldwide market leader in 2014. Moreover, Mr. Schulz was a member of the renowned business angel group "The Angels’ Forum”,

Dr. Fabian Seul is Co-Founder and MD of inxure.me, a product focused insurtech. He has dedicated his career to the financial sector with various roles and different perspectives – as a founder, adviser and investor. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully founded a corporate finance advisory company and various start-ups.

Professor Wouter van Dieren (1941) is a Dutch author, journalist, scientist, speaker, advisor, TV-maker, politician and host of the annual Springtij Forum, an assembly on green innovation and green finances.
He was the founder of IMSA, a leading thinktank, vice-chair of the International Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute as well as the Factor 10 Group (on resource efficiency). Among his books is the Report to the Club of Rome “Taking Nature into Account” (1995) about the need to correct the GDP for environmental losses.

Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker has been Co-President of the Club of Rome since 2012 . At the beginning of his career, Ernst served as professor and director of several universities and institutes, such as the UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development. In 1991, he became founding President of the Wuppertal Institute, which developed into a leading think tank on energy efficiency, material flows and climate policy. From 1998 to 2005 he was Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment.

Jochen Wermuth, Founding Partner, Green Gateway Fund 2, is a member of the steering committee of the peer-to-peer investor networks “Europeans for Divest-Invest” and “100% Impact“. He is also the principal of Wermuth Asset Management GmbH (WAM) a family office and investment adviser, committed to alternative and sustainable investments with a positive impact on the environment,

Anders Wijkman is an opinion maker and author. He is co-president of the Club of Rome, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries ,and member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA). In January 2015 Anders was appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives. The most immediate task is to develop a strategy for a low-carbon society in 2050.
Anders has served as a Member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP,

HRH Dr. Auguste von Bayern, Princess zur Lippe is a zoologist who seeks to understand how animals, in particular corvids (birds of the crow family) and parrots think. Her research interests comprise socio-cognitive abilities, flexible problem-solving skills and vocal learning abilities.
Auguste studied biology in Munich and then graduated in Zoology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. After completing her PhD on the social intelligence of jackdaws at the University of Cambridge, she became a postdoc in the Behavioural Ecology Research Group at Oxford University.

HRH Prinz Ferdinand zur Lippe-Weißenfeld studied legal sciences as well as political sciences, psychology and philosophy in Germany. He worked at several law offices as for example Bach, Langheid, Dallmayr and Schliemann Inc. Attorneys and Notaries, Somerset West, South Africa.