Claudia Bogedan is an SPD (social democratic party) politician and has been managing director of the HansBöckler Foundation since September 2021. Bogedan, who holds a doctorate in social science, was Senator for Children and Education in the Bremen state government until July 2021. Previously, she served as managing director of the Political Education Association for the Promotion of Political Action in Bonn and headed the Labor Market and Social Policy Department at the Hans Böckler Foundation's Economic and Social Science Institute, as well as the Foundation's Research Funding Department and the Gainful Employment in Transition Department. She is a member of the United Services Union (Verdi) and the Workers' Welfare Organization (AWO).

Carla Dietzel is Gender Advocacy Officer at CARE Deutschland e.V. Berlin. Until December 2020 she worked as a consultant for gender and HIV Mainstreaming at the Society for International Cooperation Cameroon and the NGO Save the children until December 2020. With a degree in ethnology, her main areas of expertise are medical anthropology, gender and the sociology of conflict.

Saskia Esken is the federal chairwoman of the SPD (social democratic party) and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. The politician comes from the constituency of Calw/Freudenstadt and entered the Bundestag again in 2021 via position 1 on the Baden-Württemberg state list. Prior to her work as Federal Chairwoman, she was, among other things, a member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment, the Committee for the Digital Agenda, as well as the Enquete Commission for Digital Intelligence. As a state-certified computer scientist (ADV), she worked in software development before her political career, so the topic of digital policy is one of her main areas of focus.

Jayati Gosh (Keynote Speaker) is an Indian development economist and current professor at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, USA. With a PhD in economics, she contributed to the establishment of the Center for Economic Studies and Planning at the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India and taught there herself for 35 years. Jayati Ghosh was previously at Tufts University and Cambridge University and now lectures at academic institutions throughout India. She is one of the founders of the Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi, a non-profit foundation dedicated to advanced economic research. Her research areas include the world economy and globalization, employment relations in countries of the Global South, macroeconomic policies, and gender and development.

Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge is Director of the German Development Institute and Professor for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. The habilitated sociologist of development and knowledge studied in Bonn, Berlin and Singapore. Before moving to Bonn, she was Professor of Social Sciences in the Marine Tropics at the University of Bremen and the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research. In her research, she works on issues of knowledge(-science) for development and natural resource governance in the economies, fisheries of Southeast and Central Asia, East and West Africa. She also advises policy makers at national, EU and UN levels, including as a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), co-chair (with Gesine Schwan) of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany, and chair of the German Commission for UNESCO's Expert Committee on Science.

Daniela Kolbe is an SPD (social democratic party) politician and has been deputy chairwoman of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation since 2010. A graduate in physics, she was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2021 and secretary general of the SPD in Saxony from 2015 to 2018. In the Bundestag, she was a member of the Interior Committee, the Enquete Commission "Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life" and the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs, among others. Early on her private political involvement she focused on the topic of political education, which she pursued in the Network for Democracy and Courage against Right-Wing Extremism and in the project days for democracy and co-determination of the DGB Youth. Since January of this year, Daniela Kolbe has now also been the deputy DGB chair of the Saxony district.

Beate von Miquel has been chairwoman of the German Women's Council since 2021 and represents the Evangelical Women in Germany (EFiD) on the board. The scientist is executive director of the interdisciplinary Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). From 2011 to 2016, she was the central equal opportunities officer at RUB. Dr. Beate von Miquel is a member of various committees as a representative of the DF. These include the Advisory Board of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS), the AK Social Groups of the House of History (HdG), the CEDAW Alliance, and the international networks Women20 (W20) and Women7 (W7). She is also an advisor to the Conference of State Women's Councils (KLFR) for the DF and part of the jury for the Helene Weber Award. (Source: frauenrat.de)

Juliane Rosin is Head of International Affairs at the German Women's Council (DF). From 2016 to 2018, she headed the organization of "Women20", a cooperation project between the DF and the Association of German Women Entrepreneurs (VdU) in the context of the German G20 presidency. Juliane Rosin studied social pedagogy with a focus on intercultural social work as well as European studies. Since 2018, she has been working for the DF, focusing on women's policy dialogues of the G7/20, CEDAW (UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women), human rights policy and the topic of digital transformation.

Anne Spiegel is the Alliance's Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2016 to 2021, she was Minister for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection, and in 2021, Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy and Mobility in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate. The politician (Bündnis90/Die Grünen) studied politics, philosophy and psychology at Darmstadt Technical University, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, the University of Mannheim and the University of Salamanca in Spain. One focus of her tenure as minister is the fight against violence against women, the implementation of the Istanbul Convention and the funding of a protection and support system for women. In the context of the G7/W7 process, she is particularly committed to the rights of LGBTIQ persons.

Natasha Walker is an expert in communication and has focused her work on the design and facilitation of complex dialogue processes since 1995. She facilitates effective strategy implementation, sustainable change and smart organizational development in organizations worldwide, also offering online support and advise. She designs and promotes long-term transformation and broad-based participation processes and is a leading facilitator for exclusive high-level panels and workshops at board and ministerial levels. Natasha Walker advises governments and research institutions on citizen participation and eases innovative citizen participation processes. Her many years of work have enabled her to build up extensive knowledge in various fields such as the 2030 Agenda. She studied English Literature and Modern Languages (German) at the University of Oxford and the University of Göttingen.