President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

former Member of the European Parliament and former President of the Union of European Federalists

former Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, former President of the European Parliament

Director, Department of Biochemistry and Synthetic Biology, Max Planck Institute

Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies; Exec. Director of the Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (CERES), University of Cologne

Secretary-General of Euroseeds