The Advisory Board
In accordance with the statutes of the DGEPD, the Advisory Board is elected by the General Assembly for a term of seven years. It consists of several distinguished individuals who advise the Executive Board and, in particular, support it in the preparation of events.
As of 2026, the Advisory Board currently comprises the following members:
Prof. Dr. Luca Basso
The relationship between the individual, society and community in modern and contemporary political philosophy
Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies
Prof. Dr. Annabel Brett
History of political thought; history of international law; concepts of nature, natural law and human rights; questions of human nature, animal welfare and the environment; conceptualisations of the state and society, among other topics
University of Cambridge
Prof. em. Dr. John Dunn
Revolution, the collapse and resurgence of political regimes; contemporary and future challenges of democracy; the globalisation of the history of political thought
University of Cambridge
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otfried Höffe
Political philosophy, particularly the philosophy of law and the state, and moral philosophy; applied ethics, including biomedical ethics, environmental ethics, ethics of technology and business ethics; epistemology; Aristotle and Kant; history of political theory
University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Kinch Hoekstra
History of political, legal and moral philosophy; political thought in ancient Greece; early constitutionalism; Renaissance and early modern philosophy, particularly Thomas Hobbes
University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Dr. Peter Hoeres
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, with a particular focus on media history
University of Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Christine Lubkoll-Klotz
Literary and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Classicism and Romanticism in the European context; aesthetic modernism; post-war and contemporary literature; literature and its relationship to music; thematic and myth studies; the cultural history of storytelling; ethics and literature; literature and discourses of knowledge; literature and discourses of the future; polychronous literary historiography of modernity, 1750–2000
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Dr. Peter Schröder
History of political thought, particularly concepts of sovereignty, natural law and international relations in the early modern period
University College London
Prof. Dr. Quentin Skinner
Speech act theory; philosophy of science; theories of representation; theories of political liberty; the study of political culture; early modern Europe; Renaissance rhetoric; history of political thought, with a particular focus on Machiavelli and Hobbes, among others
Queen Mary University of London
Prof. Dr. Barbara Zehnpfennig
Political culture; democratic theory; ancient philosophy; American constitutional thought; totalitarianism; extremism
University of Passau
Former Members of the Advisory Council
In alphabetical order
Bracher, Karl Friedrich (1922-2016)
Brandt, Reinhard (1937-2025)
Cranston, Maurice (1920-1993)
Fetscher, Iring (1922-2014)
Hartmann, Klaus (1925-1991)
Hennis, Wilhelm (1923-2012)
Henrich, Dieter (1927-2022)
Hofmann, Hasso (1934-2021)
Lobkowicz, Nikolaus (1931-2019)
Lübbe, Hermann (1926)
Marquard, Odo (1928-2015)
Minogue, Kenneth (1930-2013)
Oakeshott, Michael (1901-1990)
Pocock, John Greville Agard (1924–2023)
Richter, Melvin (1921-2020)
Stolleis, Michael (1941-2021)