Sabine Beppler-Spahl studied economics at the University of Hamburg. She went to school in Hong-Kong and Germany. She currently works in adult education in Berlin and lectures at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. She speaks English, French (Diplome approfondi in 2001) and Spanish. She is also a regular contributor to the German magazine NovoArgumente and has published articles in Die Welt, Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Zeitschrift Merkur and other publications. She is married and has two children.

Sandy Starr is deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust, a charity that advances public understanding of science, law and ethics in the fields of genetics/genomics, assisted conception and embryo/stem cell research. Sandy also serves on the Oversight Group of the project Governance of Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models, led by Cambridge Reproduction.

Sandy has addressed MPs in the UK Parliament on the subject of human embryo research, and has given a TEDx talk about genomics. He is author of the pamphlet AI: Separating Man from Machine, he has written about AI in relation to the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, and he has debated about AI in relation to architecture.

Satinder P. Gill is an experimental psychologist with a particular interest in social interactions, gestures and tacit knowledge.

She researches the processes underlying knowledge transfer in human interaction, the role of the body in sense-making, the dynamics of technologically-mediated interaction as well as the function of rhythm in facilitating human communication.

Stefan Grotefeld was born in Germany in 1965. After studying protestant theology in Munster, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Zurich he took his doctorate degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1993. He earned his habilitation in 2006 at the University of Zurich with a study on the demands of public reason and the role religious arguments may or may not play in public debate. As an ethicist his interests lay in the fields of political ethics and business ethics.

Today, Stefan Grotefeld is adjunct professor for systematic theology at the University of Zurich and head of the department Lebenswelten of the Reformed Church of Zurich.

Stefan Millius has been a journalist and author for over 30 years. After working for various newspapers, he founded his own company in 2000 and launched various online publications. Since fall 2022, he has been freelancing for „Die Weltwoche,“ „Nebelspalter,“ „Corrigenda“ and the German radio station „Kontrafunk.“ He also runs the blog stefanmillius.ch and has published several novels and non-fiction books. He wrote the screenplay for the feature films „Himmelfahrtskommando“ and „follow us #Icarus“ as well as the short film „Sams Mania“.

Stéphane Bussard was Le Temps US correspondent in New York from 2011 to the end of 2016. He has covered the Obama years and observed the rise of Trumpism, from Donald Trump’s victory in the Republican primaries to his election to the White House. He’s the co-author of the book #Trump, De la Démagogie en Amérique. Covering today international Geneva, he has been a reporter at large in countries like Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Russia, Italy, UK, India, Germany, Hungary, Thailand and Cuba. He graduated in international relations from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He saw up close the peaceful revolution in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall. He’s also a translator (French, English, German, Italian).

Stephen Tindale has 26 years of experience working in various roles within the energy and climate sectors. He is currently the Director of the Alvin Weinberg Foundation, advocating innovation and delivery of safe, secure and sustainable nuclear power. He does consultancy work for Tidal Lagoon Power and for the ReEnergise Group, and is an adviser to the Shale Gas Task Force. Stephen also runs the website Climate Answers (www.climateanswers.info), which tries to present information on climate issues in an accessible way, and to identify what should be supported rather than simply what should be opposed, as most NGOs do. He tweets @STindale. Stephen has long been in favour of community energy having co-authored, with Prashant Vaze, „Repowering commmunties: Small scale solutions to large scale problems“ (Earthscan, June 2011). Previous roles have included: Head of Communications and Public Affairs for RWE npower renewables; Executive Director of Greenpeace UK and Chairman of the Greenpeace European Unit; adviser to Environment Minister Michael Meacher; founder of IPPR Environment Group; adviser to Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith, diplomat at UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Susanne Brauer is an independent philosopher and ethicist who co-owns a company for consulting and research in bioethics, Brauer & Strub. She was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics from 2010 to 2012. Moreover, she co-authored a position-paper on Virtue Engineering, published by the Swiss Academies of Art and Sciences in 2012.

Thomas Fazi is a critically-acclaimed writer and journalist. His books include „The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent — and How We Can Take It Back“ (Pluto Press, 2014), „Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World „(co-authored with Bill Mitchell; Pluto Press, 2017) and „The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor — A Critique from the Left“ (co-authored with Toby Green; 2023). His articles have appeared in numerous online and printed publications. He is a columnist for the British magazine „UnHerd“ and a contributing editor for the American magazine „Compact”.

Thomas Vellacott BA MBA MPhil FRSA (4 March 1971) is CEO of WWF Switzerland, the conservation organisation. WWF Switzerland has 260,000 supporters and forms part of WWF’s global network. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Thomas holds degrees in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Durham, in International Relations from Cambridge and in Business Administration from IMD. Previously, he worked in private banking for Citibank and as an engagement manager for McKinsey & Co. Prior to taking on the role of CEO in 2012, Thomas spent 9 years heading up WWF Switzerland’s programme division and was responsible for the organisation’s national and international conservation projects. Thomas has been a member of WWF since he was 8 years old.