World in Transition: A Social Contract for Sustainability - WBGU

The Council Members
Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE (chair)
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, external professor at the Santa Fe Institute
and chair of the Governing Board of the Climate-KIC of the European Institute of Innovation and
Technology
Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner (vice chair)
Director of the German Development Institute, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Institute for Advanced Study of the
University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder
Geologist and palaeontologist, focus on geobiology, integrative biodiversity and science communication;
Professor at the Institute of Biology, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Vienna University of Technology and Deputy Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
(IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf
Professor of Physics of the Oceans, Potsdam University and head of the Climate System department at the
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke
Professor of Public Law, specializing German, European and International Environmental and administrative
Law, Bremen University
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmid
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology, IWES
Prof. Dr. Renate Schubert
Professor for economics at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology and director of the Institute for Environmental
Decisions, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Scientific staff at the Secretariat: Dr. Inge Paulini (Secretary-General); Dr. Carsten Loose (Deputy
Secretary-General); Dr. Karin Boschert; Rüdiger Haum, Ph. D.; Dr. Benno Pilardeaux (Media and
Public Relations); Dr. Astrid Schulz; Dr. Birgit Soete
Scientific Staff to the Council Members: Dr. Steffen Bauer; Dipl.-Phys. Christoph Bertram;
Dipl.-Volksw. Julia E. Blasch; Daniel Klingenfeld, M. Sc., MPP; Dr. Susanna Much; Olivia Serdeczny, M. A.;
Alexander Schülke, M. Sc., MPP; Dr. Niels B. Schulz; Dr. Bernd Sommer; Dr. Michael Sterner;
Dipl.-Phys. Amany von Oehsen
Layout, Editorial work, Secretariat: Mario Rinn, B. Sc.; Martina Schneider-Kremer, M. A.; Margot Weiß