Since 2009 Hansjörg Drewello is full professor for Economics, first at the University of Applied Sciences Göttingen, since 2010 at the University of Applied Sciences Kehl. He is the German Director of the European Competence and Research Centre of Cluster Management. His research focuses on transport economics as well as on regional economics. From 2001 to 2008 he was managing director of the Chamber of Commerce Karlsruhe.

Bernd Scholl has been a full professor for Spatial Planning and Development at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Planning at the ETH Zurich. His teaching and research focal points are on land and spatial management in the local and regional development, space and infrastructure development, transnational tasks as well as development and organization of innovative planning processes and methods in spatial planning and regional development. From 1997 to 2006 Bernd Scholl directed the Institute for Urban Development and Regional Planning at the University of Karlsruhe as a full professor for the chair of the same name. During this time, Bernd Scholl acted as a chairman and member of numerous international expert commissions and urban development juries.