The Academic Advisory Council advises the Mercator Institute on fundamental academic and strategic matters. It meets once a year.

Susanne Blasberg-Bense
Head of the department 3 Berufliche Bildung, Prävention und Integration, Ganztag, Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften
Ministerium für Schule und Bildung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Ehlich
Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin
Department of General, Intercultural and International Comparative Education
Universität Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn
Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council
Director of the Department Education and Human Development at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

Prof. Dr. Barbara John
Europäische Ethnologie
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller
Managing Scientific Director of Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)

Dr. Birgit Pikowsky
Director of Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz

Peter Ortmanns
Head of the department IV - Qualitätssicherung, internationale und europäische Angelegenheiten, Statistik
Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany

Prof. Dr. Kristina Reiss
Dean of TUM School of Education
Technical University of Munich

Prof. Mag. Dr. Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger
Fachdidaktikzentrum der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
Institut für Germanistik
University of Graz

Prof. Dr. Petra Stanat
Director of the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin