Former members
Former members of the Expert Council:
Prof. Dr Petra Bendel
Member (2016–2022) and Chairwoman (2019–2022), Head of Research on Migration, Displacement and Integration (MFI), Institute for Political Science at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Prof. Dr Thomas K. Bauer
Member (2011–2019) and Chairman (2016–2019), Faculty of Management and Economics at the University of Bochum, RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen
Prof. Dr Christine Langenfeld
Member (2008–2016) and Chairwoman (2012–2016), Department of Public Law at the University of Göttingen, Justice of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court
Prof. Dr Klaus. J. Bade
Member and Chairman (2008–2012), Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück
Prof. Dr Michael Bommes (†)
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück
Prof. Dr Wilfried Bos
Center for Research on Education and School Development at the TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr Gianni D’Amato
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr Claudia Diehl
Faculty of Sociology at the University of Konstanz
Prof. Dr. Heinz Faßmann
Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna
Prof. Dr Viola Georgi
Center for Diversity, Democracy and Inclusion in Education at the University of Hildesheim
Prof. Dr Christian Joppke
Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern
Prof. Dr Yasemin Karakaşoğlu
Faculty of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences at the University of Bremen
Prof. Dr Ursula Neumann
Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr Ludger Pries
Faculty of Social Science at the University of Bochum
Prof. Dr Werner Schiffauer
Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Prof. Dr Thomas Straubhaar
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr Daniel Thym
Chair of Public, European and International Law at the University of Konstanz
Prof. Dr Hacı Halil Uslucan
Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr Steven Vertovec
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection at the University of Göttingen, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen