Andreas Voßkuhle is president of the Federal Constitutional Court. He was a University professor at Freiburg (1999 – 2008), is a regular member of the social sciences class at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. In 2008 he was appointed chairman of the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. Since March 2010 he is President of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Richard Alba is Professor for Sociology at the City University of New York (Graduate Center). His research focuses on migration, ethnicity and qualitative methods. The roots of Richard Alba’s interest in ethnicity were sown during his childhood in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s and have grown intellectually at the Columbia University, where he received his undergraduate and graduate education, completing his Ph.D. in 1974. He was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, and switched to the Graduate Center in September 2008. His latest books are: The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective (2011), coedited with Mary Waters, and Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (2009).

Melinda Mills’ main research areas are currently in the area of combining a social science and genetic approach to the study of behavioural outcomes, with a focus on fertility, partnerships and assortative mating. She joined the University of Oxford in 2014 and was previously at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2006-2014). She holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Groningen (2000) and a Master and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Alberta, Canada.
She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the European Sociological Review, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sociologyand Board Member of the European Consortium for Sociological Research.​
Her research interests are life course, family and fertility, cross-national comparative research, gender, partnering and assortative mating, event history models

Thomas A. DiPrete is Giddings Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality at Columbia University and a faculty member of the Columbia Population Research Center.  DiPrete holds a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.  He has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Duke University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as Columbia. DiPrete’s research interests include social stratification, demography, education, economic sociology and quantitative methodology.  A specialist in comparative research, DiPrete has held research appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the Social Science Research Center – Berlin, the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Amsterdam.

Moshe Zuckermann is a professor of history and philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. Since 2010 he is scientific director of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna. From 2000 to 2005 he headed the Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University. In the years 2006 to 2007, he held a guest professorship at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies at the University of Lucerne. Zuckermann regularly gives talks on subjects of critical theory, whose supporter he is.

Jill Rubery joined Manchester School of Management at UMIST in 1989, having previously worked at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University, where she had been a fellow of New Hall and Director of Studies in Economics. She was appointed to a Chair at UMIST in 1995. From 1991 to 1996 and again from 1998 to 2007 she acted as a co-ordinator of the European Commission's group of experts on gender and employment. She has also worked as the UK member of this group of experts. Professor Rubery is a member of the ACAS Board of Arbitrators. She has been Head of the People, Management and Organizations Division at MBS since 2004 and in 2007 she has been appointed Deputy Director for Human Resources. In 2006 she was elected a fellow of the British Academy and an emeritus fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge.

Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City. Fraser earned her PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and taught in the philosophy department at Northwestern University for many years before moving to the New School. In addition to her many publications and lectures, Fraser is a former Co-editor of Constellations, an international journal of critical and democratic theory, where she remains an active member of the Editorial Council.