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Academic Advisory Council

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

Susanne Blasberg-Bense
Director of Department 3: Vocational Education, Prevention and Integration, Full-Day Programs, Churches, and Religious Communities
Ministry of Schools and Education of North Rhine-Westphalia

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Ehlich
Free University of Berlin

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

Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board
Director of the Department of Education and Development at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

Prof. Dr. Barbara John
European Ethnology
Humboldt University of Berlin

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

Dr. Birgit Pikowsky
Director of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Institute of Education

Peter Ortmanns
Head of Department IV—Quality Assurance, International and European Affairs, Statistics 
Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs

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

Prof. Mag. Dr. Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger
Center for Subject Didactics, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of German Studies
University of Graz

Prof. Dr. Petra Stanat
Director of the Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB)
Humboldt University of Berlin