Prof. Dr. Bruce Edward Auerbach
Prof. Dr. Dieter Birnbacher 
Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn
Dr. Axel Bohmeyer
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buchholz
Dr. Daniel Butt
Prof. Dr. Jim Dator
Prof. Dr. Claus Dierksmeier
Prof. Dr. Andrew Dobson
Dr. Ralf Döring
Dr. Peer Ederer
Prof. Dr. Dr. Bruno S. Frey
Prof. Dr. Emilie Gaillardis
Prof. Dr. Stephen Gardiner
Dr. Axel Gosseries
Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther
Ph. D. Huey-li Li
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Jesse
Dr. Ulrike Jureit
Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli
Juergen Kopfmüller
Andreas Kraemer
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich
Nira Lamay-Rachlevsky
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer
Prof. Dr. Lukas Meyer
Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel
Prof. Tim Mulgan
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Müller-Groeling
Prof. Dr. Jan Narveson
Dr. Edward Page
Dr. Ernest Partridge
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher
Marisa dos Reis
PD Dr. Stephan Schlothfeld
Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind
Prof. Shlomo Giora Shoham
Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo E. Simonis
PD Dr. Markus Stepanians
Prof. Torbjörn Tännsjö
Prof. Janna Thompson
Prof. Dr. Max M. Tilzer
Dr. Gotlind Ulshöfer
Dr.Werner Veith
Prof. Michael Wallack
Prof. Dr. Norbert Wenning
Prof. Dr. Burns Weston
Prof. Dr. Marcel Wissenburg
Prof. Dr. Clark Wolf

Prof. Dr. Bruce Edward Auerbach
is an associate professor of political science at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania (USA). He was born in New York City and attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, before receiving his BA and MA degrees in political science from Drew University and his PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota. Auerbach is the author of many articles and papers in political philosophy and constitutional law. One of his most important publications is “Unto the Thousandth Generation: Conceptualizing Intergenerational Justice” (1995). His current research focuses on the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the erosion of constitutional and human rights in the war on terror.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Birnbacher
was born in Dortmund in 1946. Studies of philosophy, of English philology and linguistics in Düsseldorf, Cambridge and Hamburg. He obtained his BA (Cambridge) in 1969 and his PhD in Hamburg in 1973, and became a professor in Essen in 1988. Activity as assistant at the College of Education in Hanover and as akademischer rat at the University of Essen. From 1974 to 1985 co-operation in the work group "Environment, Society, Energy" at the University of Essen (director: Klaus Michael Meyer Abich). From 1993 to 1996 professor of philosophy at the University of Dortmund, since 1996 at the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf. Vice president of the Schopenhauer Society, Frankfurt/Main. Member of the constant commission for organ transplantation of the Federal Medical Association. Member of the central commission for Somatic Gene Therapy at the Federal Medical Association. Member of the editorial board of the journal Ethik in der Medizin. Member of the ethics commission of the medical faculty at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Main fields of interest: ethics, practical ethics, anthropology.

Dr. Ingolfur Blühdorn
is Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics and Political Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. His research connects aspects of social and political theory, political sociology and environmental sociology. He has published widely on social movements and their organisations, Green Parties, and the transformation of the political in advanced consumer democracies. His most recent book publications include Economic Efficiency – Democratic Empowerment. Contested Modernization in Britain and Germany (with Uwe Jun, Rowman&Littlefield, 2007), The Politics of Unsustainability: Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era (with Ian Welsh, Routledge, 2008) and In Search of Legitimacy: Policy Making in Europe and the Challenge of Societal Complexity (Budrich, 2009).

Dr. Axel Bohmeyer
was born in Georgsmarienhütte in 1975. He is the director of the Berlin Institute for Christian Ethics And Politics (ICEP) and he teaches anthropology and ethics at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences. He studied catholic theology, philosophy and pedagogy in Frankfurt and did his PhD with a socio-philosophical work on "Recognition". His research focuses mainly on anthropology and ethics (especially in the context of social work).


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buchholz
holds a chair for finance at the Department of Political Economy at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He focuses on environmental economics, and more specifically on international environmental economics, innovative effects of eco-Policy and intergenerational rights and sustainability. One of his most recent publications is a textbook on the economics of the welfare state (in cooperation with F. Breyer).


Dr. Daniel Butt
is fellow and tutor in politics at Oriel College, University of Oxford. He specialises in international political theory, and has recently worked on questions relating to the rectification of historic injustice. He is the author of Rectifying International Injustice: Principles of Compensation and Restitution Between Nations (OUP, 2009).

Prof. Dr. Jim Dator
is professor, and director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and, among other positions, an adjunct professor in the Program in Public Administration, the College of Architecture, and the Center for Japanese Studies, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also taught at various universities around the globe, for example at Rikkyo University (Tokyo), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto. He received a BA in ancient and medieval history and philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in political science from The American University. He is a Danforth Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow. He consults widely on the futures of law, governance, education, tourism, and space. Two of his recent books are Democracy and Futures (2006, with M. Mannermaa and P. Tiihonen) and Fairness, Globalization and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond (2006, with D. Pratt and Y. Seo).

Prof. Dr. Claus Dierksmeier
is associate professor for philosophy at Stonehill College in Easton (Boston), Mass., USA. He has published widely on the legal and social philosophy of Kant and German idealism. His current research focuses on the role of freedom in business and economic theory, and on the ethics of globalisation.



Prof. Dr. Andrew Dobson
is professor of politics at Keele University, UK. He specialises in environmental political theory. Among his publications are: Green Political Thought (4th edition 2006), Justice and the Environment (1998) and Citizenship and the Environment (2003). He was a founder editor of the international journal Environmental Politics.


Dr. Ralf Döring
Born in 1966. After having studied economics in Kassel he did his PhD about inshore fishing in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the University of Greifswald. Since 1996 he teaches at the Institute for Landscape Economics in Greifswald. From 2000-2003 he was a member of the German Council of Ecologic Experts. Döring is a research assistant specialising on sustainable development, resource economics (especially fishing) and ecological economics. He is a member of the Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF).

Dr. Peer Ederer
is director of the Human Capital Project of the Brussel-based Lisbon Council, head of the Innovation and Growth Project of Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, and academic director of the European Food and Agribusiness Seminar. He studied business administration at Sophia University in Tokyo and at Harvard Business School in Boston. He completed his PhD at the University of Witten Herdecke in Germany, exploring the financial relationship between the state and citizens. Ederer worked for four years in the German office of McKinsey & Co. specialising on issues of technology management and business growth. He also co-founded the think tank “Deutschland Denken!”, which is creating and publishing innovative public policy choices for the German society.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Bruno S. Frey
was born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1941. He studied economics in Basle and Cambridge (England). Since 1977 has been professor of economics at the University of Zurich. He is the editor of Kyklos, research director of CREMA (Centre for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts) and received an honorary doctorate in economics from various universities. He is a fellow of the Public Choice Society, a distinguished fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and a distinguished fellow of CESifo Research Network. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals, as well as the author of 20 books, some of which have been translated into nine languages.

Prof. Dr. Emilie Gaillardis
is associate professor in private law at the University of Caen. Her thesis entitled « Générations futures et droit privé. Vers un droit des générations futures » has been approved by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Dupin Prize- 2010). Her work has been published by the L.G.D.J, with a preface by Professor M. Delmas-Marty. From international to private law, across the traditional French boundaries between public and private law, and significantly inspired by studying the laws of other nations, she aims at establishing a renewed juridical humanism. As such, she has written the theoretical articles (« La force normative du paradigme juridique » ; « La densification normative de la protection juridique des générations futures » in press). She imagines and proposes innovative ways of implementing law for the benefit of future generations (particularly in Constitutional and in Human Rights Law- see « Des crimes contre l’humanité aux crimes contre les générations futures. Vers une transposition de l’éthique transgénérationnelle en droit pénal international ? », RIDPD, Mc Gill University, 2012, vol.7 :2). She has also participated as a speaker at French and international symposiums (Lisbonne, 2008 ; Budapest, Hungarian Ombudsman for Future Generations, S. Fülop, 2010).

Prof. Dr. Stephen Gardiner
is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program on Values in Society at the University of Washington, Seattle. He writes on ethics and political philosophy, with a special interest on issues involving future generations. He is the editor of Virtue Ethics: Old and New (2005), and is currently working on a book on ethics and climate change called The Perfect Moral Storm.



Dr. Axel Gosseries
is a permanent research fellow, Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and lecturer at the University of Louvain,got his  LL.M. in London in 1996, and his PhD in philosophy in Louvain in 2000. He is associate editor of Revue de philosophie économique. His research interests are in political philosophy, ethics, public policy, including theories of intergenerational justice, firms & states and their respective role from a normative perspective as well as ethical challenges to tradable quotas schemes.

Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther
holds a professorship for operational environmental economics at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) since 1996. She studied business administration at the University of Augsburg and also studied French at the University of Geneva. After her doctoral thesis, which was titled Ecologically Oriented Controlling, she specialised, among other topics, in ecological performance measurement (product- and process-oriented) and eco-friendly resourcing. Under her direction, the TU Dresden initiated an environmental management system in accordance with the Eco-Audit Ordinance of the EU. From 2002 on, this management system is still validated regularly. As of 2005, she is also a guest professor at the University of Virginia.

Ph. D. Huey-li Li
is professor of educational philosophy at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. She was born in Taiwan and studied the Chinese classics at National Taiwan University. She served as a high school teacher in Kaohsiung, Taiwan before she pursued and earned a doctoral degree in philosophy of education in the U.S. Her current research areas are ethical foundations of environmental education, ecofeminism, ethics in teaching, postcolonial studies in education, and global civic and citizenship education.

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Jesse
studied political science and historical science. He was stipendiary of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and, from 1978 to 1983, he was an assistant professor at the University of Trier. In 1982, he wrote his dissertation on the right to vote in Germany. From 1983 to 1989, he was a lecturer at the University of Trier, where he habilitated. After some substitutions, he became a professor at the TU Chemnitz in 1993, where he holds the chair for political systems and political institutions. Since 2007 he is the chairman of the German Society for Political Science.

Dr. Ulrike Jureit
is a historian at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (Germany). After her history and theology study in Muenster (Germany), she got her PhD in 1997 at the University of Hamburg with the topic Biographical Memory Schemes. In the years 2000 to 2004 she directed the exhibition "Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the Extermination War 1941-1945". Her projects, which are situated in the social and cultural history field, mostly deal with memory research as well as questions of political territories and collectivity. Apart from these, she also focuses on generational research.

Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli
(born 1942 in Switzerland) is professor of sociology at the European University Institute (Florence) and emeritus at the Free University of Berlin. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and from 1997 to 1999 was president of the European Sociological Association. His research focuses on the life course, aging, generations, work, family and welfare. Currently he is engaged in a MacArthur Foundation Network on the aging society and in an Academy Group on fertility.


Jürgen Kopfmüller
is a political economist and since 2005 he is the chairman of the Association for Ecological Economy (VÖÖ). Besides, he is a research associate at the Department for the Estimation of Technological Consequences and System Analytics (ITAS) at the Research Center in Karlsruhe (Germany). He studied economics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and from 1989-1991, he was a scientific assistant at the Department for Energy and Environmental Studies (IFEU) in Heidelberg. He has been in charge of a number of projects and publications on the topics sustainable development, global change, socio-economic aspects of environmental problems and environmental, climate and energy politics. He attends to several project boards, for example PROSA (Product Sustainability Assessment).

Andreas Kraemer
has been active in sustainable development, environment policy, climate and energy policies for over 20 years. R. Andreas Kraemer has been director of the Ecologic Institute in Berlin since its foundation. In April 2008, he became chairman of the Ecologic Institute in Washington DC - Ecologic’s newly incorporated presence. Since 1993 he is also a visiting assistant professor at Duke University, lecturing on European integration and environmental policy in the Duke Berlin Program. Kraemer focuses on integrating environmental concerns into other policies. He is particularly engaged in strengthening transatlantic relations and cooperation on environment, climate and energy security. Kraemer was awarded a fellowship by the Prince of Wales’ Business and the Environment Programme, and a scholarship by the Carl Duisberg Stiftung (now InWent). Previous to the founding of Ecologic, R. Andreas Kraemer worked for a range of policy institutes: Science Center Berlin (WZB), the Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) and the Research Unit Environmental Policy of the Free University of Berlin (FFU).

Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich
has been involved in futures research since the 1960s, and has become a recognised figure in this field. Having studied mathematics and physics, Kreibich studied and moved into sociology and economics and began looking at the broad future impacts of new technological developments. Formerly the president of the Free University of Berlin, Kreibich is now the scientific and managing director of the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment Berlin and the Secretariat for Futures Research Dortmund. He is member of the World Future Council as well as of numerous committees and advisory groups throughout Europe.

Nira Lamay-Rachlevsky
graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School in 1997. In 2008, she received her LLM in Public and International Law from Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago, IL, USA) and she graduated from the same program in Tel-Aviv University Law School. As a lawyer, member of the Israeli Bar since 1998, she works for Knesset as the Legal Advisor of two parliamentary committees: Science and Technology Committee and Committee on the Rights of the Child. Former deputy Commissioner for Future Generations in the Knesset (2002-2008), participated in the establishing of the Commission and was mainly in charge of legislation and international affairs as well as sustainable development, science and technology.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer
was born in 1956. He studied philosophy, sociology and history at the University of Münster, Bologna and Berlin (FU). He received his PhD In 1993. 1995 he was awarded a position as an unscheduled professor. From 1999 to 2001 he was a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Siena. In 2001/2002 he conducted the research project “How good is life?” at the University of Osnabrück. Since 2002 he teaches philosophy of morals at the University of Siena. His main interests are general ethics, applied ethics (particularly environmental ethics), theory of action, theory of rational action and theory of desirability, philosophic anthropology, theory of argumentation and language philosophy.

Prof. Dr. Lukas H. Meyer
received his MA in philosophy from the Washington University in St. Louis, a diploma in political science from the Free University of Berlin, and his PhD from the University of Oxford. He was lecturer at the Free University and the University of Bremen where he wrote his habilitation on historical justice. After having been assistant professor at the University of Bern he is now professor of practical philosophy at the Karl-Franzens University Graz (since March 2009). He is also a member of the committee for "economic science and ethic" of the Verein für Socialpolitik.


Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel
was born in Vienna in 1939, studied philosophy, sociology and law in Frankfurt, Freiburg and Washington D.C. and received his PhD 1969 in law. After having been a company lawyer for Henkel for four years, he became a co-worker of Kurt Biedenkopf, then-secretary general to the Christian Democratic Union party. From 1975 onwards he was also the chief of the main department for policy, information and documentation in the CDU federal headquarters. Until recently, Miegel was director of the IWG BONN, a think tank dealing with economy and society, which Miegel himself had founded together with Kurt Biedenkopf back in 1977. He closed the IWG BONN in 2008 and founded the new >Denkwerk Zukunft – Stiftung kulturelle Erneuerung<, a foundation for cultural renewal which aims to help to develop and spread a Western culture which shall be able to be universalised and sustainable. Furthermore, Miegel was an unscheduled professor at the University of Leipzig from 1992 to 1998, director of the Commission on Future Issues of the federal states of Bavaria and Saxony from 1995 to 1997 and advisor to the German Institute for Old-Age Provisions from 1997 to 2006.

Prof. Tim Mulgan
was educated at the Universities of Otago and Oxford, where he wrote his DPhil on The Demands of Consequentialism under the supervision of Derek Parfit. He is currently professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of St Andrews (UK), and director of the St Andrews/Stirling Graduate Programme in philosophy. He is the author of three books: The Demands of Consequentialism, OUP, 2001; Future People, OUP,  2006; and Understanding Utilitarianism, Acumen, 2007. He works in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
 
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Müller-Groeling
was born and raised in Ostpreußen (1929-45). He took his diploma in economics at Heidelberg University and wrote his dissertation (on income equality and utility maximization) while being an assistant  at the Institute for Social and Economic Policy at Saarbrücken University. From 1970 to 1994 he worked at the Kiel Institute of  World Economics, as senior researcher on international business cycles and currency problems,  later as department head and  managing editor of  the ‘Review of World Economics’ and  the ‘Kiel Studies’, and finally as its vice president. He served in the Friedrich–Naumann- Foundation as  member of the board of trustees (1974-87), of the board of directors (1987-2006), and as chairman of  the fellowship committee. He also served in the Herbert Giersch Foundation as the head of the advisory committee.(1990-2008).

Dr. Edward Page
is associate professor of political theory at Warwick University. He was trained in politics and philosophy at the Universities of Sheffield and Essex, before completing a doctorate on the topic of intergenerational justice (Warwick University: 1998). In 2002, he won a two-year Marie Curie research fellowship to pursue research on climate change ethics and politics at Lund University; and he was AHRC research fellow in “Global Justice and the Environment” at Birmingham University before taking up his current post in 2006.

Dr. Ernest Partridge
is a philosopher with a specialty in moral philosophy (ethics) and environmental ethics. He has taught at several campuses of the University of California and at the University of Colorado. Partridge has published over sixty refereed and invited scholarly papers, and is the editor of Responsibilities to Future Generations (Prometheus, 1981). Most recently, he has contributed numerous articles to progressive websites. He is the editor and sole writer of the website, The Online Gadfly. Partridge is currently at work on a book, Conscience of a Progressive, which can be seen in progress.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher
is academic head of FAW (Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung) in Ulm. This is the first institute in Germany, founded in October 1987, which deals with artificial intelligence (ai). Radermacher published several books and essays, among others Menschenbild und Überbevölkerung, Chancen und Risiken von Innovationen am Beispiel der Automatisierung vin Kognitionsleistungen and Bewältigung des Wandels – a booklet which describes future challenges and wants to help coping with them.

Marisa dos Reis worked as a research fellow at the FRFG from September 2009 until early 2012. She has completed a 5-year degree in Law at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1997-2002). After working as a deputy district prosecutor attorney in Portugal, she finished her 4-year Research Master's thesis entitled “Direito Internacional, Direitos Humanos e Justiça Intergeracional - A protecção jurídica das gerações futuras" (International Law, Human Rights and Intergenerational Justice – the legal protection of future generations) at the same institution in May 2010. She was the project leader and one of the speakers at an international conference entitled "Ways of Legally Implement Intergenerational Justice" as well as the editor of the IGJR 1/2010 on the same topic. In May, 2011, the European Commission awarded Marisa dos Reis together with FRFG a certificate for an outstanding project with regard to this initiative. She participated as a speaker at the French Colloquium "Quelle Responsabilité Juridique Envers Les Générations Futures" in December 2010 and got her presentation published in January 2012. Currently she is a researcher for the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology and is writing her PhD thesis on the legal protection of future generations.

PD Dr. Stephan Schlothfeldt
is currently substituting the professorship for practical philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Göttingen and was awarded his doctorate in 1998 at the University of Düsseldorf for a thesis on ethical problems of unemployment. Later he worked on a research project on social justice at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was a research associate for practical philosophy at the University of Konstanz where he qualified as a professor in 2006 with a book on individual and collective duties to help. His areas of interest are applied ethics with a political focus, basics of ethics, social philosophy and political philosophy.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind
Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind studied Business Administration in Cologne and Paris from 1986 to 1991. After that, he was consultant at Roland Berger&Partner. From 1992 to 1997, he was research assistant at the Institute for Economics and Ecology at the University in St. Gallen where he completed his PhD. Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind is Director of the Chair of Production Management and Environment at the Carl-von-Ossientzky- University in Oldenburg. From 1997 to 1999, he was the chairman of VÖW (Association for Ecological Economic Research). Since 2010 he is President and Scientific Managing Director of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. 

Prof. Shlomo Giora Shoham
is a professor of law and an interdisciplinary lecturer at the Tel Aviv University. He is a world-renowned criminologist, who has published more than a hundred books and more than a thousand articles on crime, deviance, philosophy, religion, psychology, and the human personality. Over the years, Shoham developed his innovative personality theory, which is a highly appraised new theory of personality development. In 2003, Shoham was awarded the Israel Prize for research in criminology. He has also been awarded the highest prize in American criminology, the Sellin-Glueck award; and recently the prestigious Emet Prize. Shoham has lectured all over the world, and has been a resident at universities of Oxford and Harvard, and at the Sorbonne.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo E. Simonis
From 1959-1963, Prof. Dr. Udo E. Simonis studied Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mainz, Vienna and Fribourg. In 1963, he obtained his diploma in National Economy at the University of Fribourg. From 1963-1964, Simonis was scientific subeditor at the Research Centre in Global Civilisation in Freiburg. From 1964-1967 he took part in the Seminar for Economic Politics at the University of Kiel as a scientific assistant. 1981/82 he completed his doctorate. He acted as personal advisor to the president of Zambia, Dr. Kenneth D. Kaunda, from 1967 to 1969. In 1974 he was appointed Professor of Economy at the Technical University Berlin. In 1988 he was named scientific Professor for Environmental Policy by the Research Centre Berlin. From 1988-1993 he was member of the Committee for Development Planning in the UN. The winter semester 1992/93 he spent as a visiting professor of the department for environmental research at the Federal University of Technology Zurich. In December 1995 he was Humboldt-Professor at the University Ulm. In 2003 he received an honorary promotion to Dr. rer. nat. at the University Lüneburg. His Main research fields are: ecological change of structure of economy and society and international (global) environmental policy. Currently Prof. Simonis is doing research on environmental policy at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

PD Dr. Markus Stepanians
is currently the team leader of the research group “Law & Technology” of the Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at the RWTH Aachen. He began his studies of philosophy, literature and linguistics in 1980 at Hamburg University. After gaining an MA in philosophy and a doctorate scholarship, Stepanians stayed at Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy as a ‘visiting scholar’ for two years (1991-1993) prior to receiving his doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on Frege and Husserl’s theory of judgement. In 1998, he became an assistant to the chair of practical philosophy at the University of Saarland and gained in 2005 his venia legendi for philosophy. In 2006 and 2007 Stepanians held a temporary chair of practical philosophy at the University of Saarland and the RWTH Aachen before gaining a tenured position in practical philosophy of the RWTH Aachen. He acts as a regular reviewer for the journals Erkenntnis - An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - An International Forum.

Prof. Torbjörn Tännsjö
is professor of practical philosophy at Stockholm University. He has published extensively in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and bioethics. Two recent books are Global Democracy. The Case for a World Government (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008) and Understanding Ethics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002/2008).



Prof. Janna Thompson
is a Reader and Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Justice and World Order, Taking Responsibility for the Past, and Intergenerational Justice. She has also written articles and chapters on environmental ethics and social philosophy.



Prof. Dr. Max M. Tilzer
is professor emeritus of aquatic ecology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He studied biology with emphasis on ecology at the University of Vienna. After research appointments at Innsbruck and the University of California, Davis he became professor of limnology (Freshwater Ecology), first at the Technical University of Berlin and in 1978 at the University of Konstanz, where he initiated and directed an integrated ecosystem-related research project on Lake Constance. For five years he was scientific director of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute of Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven and for four years he was a member of the Scientific Council on Global Change (WBGU) to the German Federal Government. He has a strong interest in a wide range of environmental issues and concerns such as World population growth, freshwater shortage, biological species loss, and climate change.

Dr. Gotlind Ulshöfer
is a program director for economics, business ethics and gender issues at the Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain, Germany. She teaches ethics at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and is a post-doctoral researcher. Ulshöfer holds a doctorate in theological ethics (University of Heidelberg) and was a doctoral fellow at the Interfacultary Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (University of Tübingen). She studied economics (diploma 1998) and protestant theology (diploma 1994) at the universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 1993 she graduated with a master of theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is also an ordained minister. In 2009 she is the Bonhoeffer scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Her areas of research span economics and business ethics, social ethics, gender studies, and public theology. Recent publication: Corporate Social Responsibility auf dem Finanzmarkt. Nachhaltiges Investment – Politisches Strategien – Ethische Grundlagen (2009 with Gesine Bonnet).

Dr. Werner Veith
Born in 1967 in Frankfurt am Main, Werner Veith first completed an apprenticeship as publisher and from1991 on studied Catholic Theology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, from 1992 on also philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. From 1995-1996 he was research assistant at the institute of moral theory and Christian social ethics at LMU. In 1996 he achieved the M.A. in Ethics, Communication Studies and Social Studies, in 1998 he received his diploma in Catholic Theology. Since 2001 Veith was head of the department of Catholic theology at LMU, since 2004 he was research assistant for Christian social ethics. In 2005, Veith completed his PhD in Christian social ethics, dealing with the works of Prof. Dr. Alois Baumgartner.
Selected works: Intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit. Ein Beitrag zur sozialethischen Theoriebildung, Stuttgart 2006; Von der sozialen Gerechtigkeit zur intergenerationellen Gerechtigkeit, in: Bohmeyer, A./Frühbauer, J.J. (Hg.), Profile – Christliche Sozialethik zwischen Theologie und Philosophie (= Augsburger Schriften zur Theologie und Philosophie), Münster 2004, 39–50; Solidarität der Generationen, in: Baumgartner, A./Putz, G. (Hg.), Sozialprinzipien – Leitideen in einer sich wandelnden Welt (= Salzburger Theologische Studien 18), Innsbruck u. Wien 2001, 107–124; "Generation" als sozialethischer Grundbegriff – eine Rekonstruktion, in: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 55 (2004) 36–55.

Prof. Michael Wallack
studied at the City College of New York and Syracuse University. He has been a member of the Political Science Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 1970 where he is an associate professor. His areas of interest include contemporary democratic theory, American politics and international relations. His publications include Justice between generations: the limits of procedural justice in the Handbook of Intergenerational Justice, J. Tremmel (ed.) Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2006); From compellence to pre-emption: Kosovo and Iraq as US responses to contested hegemony in The transatlantic divided. Foreign and Security policies in the Atlantic Alliance from Kosovo to Iraq, O. Croci and A. Verdun (eds.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006; The minimum irreversible harm principle: Green Inter-generational Liberalism in Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism: the end of environmentalism? ECPR European Political Science Series, Marcel Wissenburg and Yoram Levy (eds), London: Routledge, 2004).

Prof. Dr. Norbert Wenning
is a university professor of intercultural education at the Department of Pedagogy at University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany). His research concentrates, among other topics, on the social and educational methods of dealing with difference. One focus here is on the relation of school and heterogeneity. Recent publications mostly deal with the question how society deals with equality and inequality. His most recent monograph is called School Policies for Different Ethnic Groups in Germany. Between Autonomy and Suppression.



Prof. Dr. Burns Weston
retired from full-time teaching at the University of Iowa Law Faculty in May 1999. Professor Weston began his legal career with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1999, Professor Weston spearheaded the founding, and thereafter directed for five consecutive years, the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR). Upon his resignation from that position in 2004, he was named lifetime senior scholar of the UI Center for Human Rights. At the same time, he was appointed as a senior human rights adviser ("Expert on Mission") to UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy. Professor Weston's teaching and research interests have centered on international jurisprudence, international human rights law (including intergenerational rights), the laws of war, the law of state responsibility (particularly in relation to the concerns of developing countries), international environmental law, and US foreign relations law.

Prof. Dr. Marcel Wissenburg
is professor of political theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen and (in 2004-2009) Socrates professor of humanist philosophy at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. In addition to articles and book chapters, he wrote Green Liberalism (1998), Imperfection and Impartiality (1999) and Political Pluralism and the State (2008). His current research interests include political and personal autonomy, liberal reconceptualisations of sustainability and nature, and libertarian views on intergenerational obligations.

Prof. Dr. Clark Wolf
is associate professor of philosophy and director of the bio ethics program at Iowa State University. The program he directs publishes Bioethics in Brief, a quarterly journal that discusses current ethical issues with pedagogues and the public. Professor Wolf is 45 years old, and has two children, aged 9 and 12. He hopes to avoid leaving any uncompensated debts, financial or environmental, for them to pay off.