Members
The German Data Forum (RatSWD) was established by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in accordance with the other federal government departments in 2004. It continued its activities of the RatSWD founding committee.
Seventh appointment period (July 2020 – July 2023)
The German Data Forum (RatSWD) is an independent council of empirical researchers from universities, university-level institutions, institutions of independent scientific research as well as representatives from important data producers in Germany. It consists of twenty members. The members for the German Data Forum’s 7th appointment period period were appointed in July 2020.
Representatives of the empirical social, behavioural, and economic sciences

Professor für Methoden und Evaluation, Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie, Freie Universität Berlin

Professor of Political Sociology of Germany, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin

Chair of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg

Professor of Educational Measurement, Kiel University
Head of Department Educational Measurement, IPN - Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education

Professor of Educational Sciences, Institute for Educational Sciences, Giessen University

Vice Chair of the German Data Forum
Chair of Public Finance and Taxation, Department of Economics, University of Wuppertal
Managing Director of WIB - Wuppertal Research Institute for the Economics of Education

Professor for International Comparative Public Policy, Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, University of Munich

Professor of Personality Psychology and Assessment, Institute of Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology

Professor of Sociology, Focus on Methods of Qualitative Social Research, Institute of Sociology, University of Tübingen

Chair of Empirical Economic Research, Department of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Representatives of data production

Head of the Research Data and Service Center of Deutsche Bundesbank

Chair of Qualitative Methods and Microsociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen
Head of Working Group Qualitative Methods and Microsociology at SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy

Chair of the German Data Forum
German Centre for Research on Higher Education and Science Studies (DZHW) - Chair
Scientific Director of the German Centre for Research on Higher Education and Science Studies (DZHW)
Professor for Empirical Research on Higher Education and Science Studies, University of Hannover

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

German Pension Insurance
Department Research and Development at the German Pension Insurance

Federal Employment Agency
Head of Research Department “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS), Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Professor of Sociology, especially Survey Methodology, University of Bamberg

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

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Department Monitoring Society and Social Change
Head of the German Microdata Lab (GML)

Statistical Offices of the "Länder"
Head of Department Statistics of IT.NRW (Landesbetriebe Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Robert Koch-Institut (RKI)
Guests of the RatSWD
Dr. Daniel Fuß – Chair of the FDI committee
Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (RDC-LIfBi)
Dr. Eckard Kämper
German Research Foundation (DFG), Programme Director Humanities and Social Sciences 2: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig
Institute of Sociology at the FU Berlin
Tatjana Mika – Chair of the FDI committee
Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV)
Dr. Katharina Pijnenburg
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Social Sciences and Humanities Division
Bertram Raum
Expert for Data Protection Law
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Rockmann
Institute for School Quality at the FU Berlin; Vice State Returning Officer for Berlin