Members

Professor of Empirical Environmental Economics, Department of Economics and Deputy Director of the ZEW Research Division “Environmental and Climate Economics” at the University of Mannheim

Professor of “Educational Monitoring & Effectiveness” at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Head of the Center for International Student Assessment (ZIB) and responsible for the national implementation of the PISA study

Professor of Educational Science with a focus on national and international educational research, Institute of Educational Science, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
Chair of the Practice and Research Advisory Board of the Institute for Educational Monitoring and Quality Development in Hamburg

Holds the Chair in Health Economics at the Faculty of Economics—Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal

Professor of Sociology with a focus on longitudinal educational research, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg,
Deputy Director at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LifBi) and Head of the Department "Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education"

Professor of Methods for Intensive Data in Psychology (midpsy), Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz

Holds the Chair of School Pedagogy, specializing in school research and general didactics, at the Institute for School Pedagogy and Educational Research, University of Rostock

Professor for Educational Science with a focus on emotional und social development and learning at the Institute for Special Education at Goethe University Frankfurt, Head of the department 'Reconstructive case studies and social intervention research'

Professor of Methodology at the University of Hildesheim

Head of the Chair of Management and Controlling at Georg-August University of Göttingen

German Bundesbank
Head of the Research Data and Service Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank

German Centre for Higher Education and Science Research (DZHW)
Head of the Department "Infrastructure and Methods"

German Pension Insurance Association
Research and Development Division of Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund

Socio-Economic Panel SOEP at DIW Berlin
Head of Data-Operation and Research Data Centre at the SOEP Infrastructure Facility

FDZ Qualiservice
Professor of Qualitative Methods and Micro-Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Bremen
Head of the Methods Research Department at the SOCIUM Research Centre Inequality and Social Policy

Statistical Offices of the Länder
President of the State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg

Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
Head of the Department "Epidemiological Data and Survey Centre"

Federal Employment Agency
Researcher in the "Businesses and Employment" research division and co-director of the "Labor Market and Social Security Panel" at the IAB

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Federal Statistical Office
Head of Division B Strategy and Planning, International Relations, Research and Communication

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Scientific Director of the Data Services for the Social Sciences Department at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
(Member of the German Data Forum since July 2026)