Members with strong roots in science and practice

Friedrich Willhelm Wellmer
Former President of the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, and the State Geological Survey of Lower Saxony; Professor for Mineral Economics and Natural Resources Policy, Technical University Berlin; Worldwide work as exploration scientists for Metallgesellschaft AG.

Members from
academia

Simon J. Hoefer* (BSc. Industrial design)
Industrial Designer; student of Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Martin Kreßner* (Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing)
Professur Tagebau und Rekultivierung / Chair Surface Mining and Recultivation.

Khawla Lamghari (Dr. Ing. Dipl Mining Ing.)
Mining engineer, sustainable mining engineering. Expertise in energy transition, material flow analysis, simulation-based optimization, and decision-support frameworks to reduce environmental impacts and enhance resource efficiency in the mining sector; Rabat, Morrocco.

Roland W. Scholz* (Prof. Dr. phil. habil, Dipl. Math.)
Mathematician and psychologist; pioneer in the theory and practice of transdisciplinary transition management; Professor Emeritus, former Chair of Environmental Systems Sciences: Natural and Social Science Interface, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Adjunct Professor (PD), Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Jana Zscheischler* (Prof. Dr.)
Chair of Geographic Resources Management and Environmental Conflicts; Environmental and Media Scientist with extensive experience in transdisciplinary research, agricultural resource use, and bio economics, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Members with strong
practical backgrounds

Michael Mew (BSc. Geology)
Founder and former member of Fertecon (London, UK) and CRU (London, UK), both leading business intelligence firms specializing in phosphorus

Amit Roy* (Dr. BSc, Chemistry, MSc, Chemical Engineering)
Chemical Engineer; former President/Head of IFDC (Muscle Shoals, AL, USA) and GPI (Ben Guerir, Morocco); Vice Chair of Sasakawa Africa Association (Tokyo, Japan)

Sören Scholz (Dipl. Kfm.)
Economist, specialist in supply-demand dynamics, food markets, and complex multi-system multivariate statistical modelling; Bielefeld, Germany

Silvana Tordo (Dr. phil.)
Economist and financial expert with experience in the oil and gas industry; former Lead at the World Bank, Washington, DC

Leopold Weber (Prof. Dr. rer nat, Dipl Geol.)
Mineral deposit geologist; former Head of the Department of Minerals Policy in the Federal Ministry of Economy; former editor of World Mining Data; Prof. for mining geology (Univ. Vienna), former Austrian representant of mineral affairs in the European Commission, present: First Vice Chairman International Organizing Committee for the World Mining Congresses.