Members during the eighth term of office (November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2024)

WBGU 2020–2024
Photo: f.l.t.r.: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Otto Pörtner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg E. Drewes, Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel (Co-Chair), Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke (Co-Chair), Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen, Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff, Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, Prof. Dr. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen, chair of Capital Markets and Management, University of Hamburg and visiting professor, Department of Accountancy and Law, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg E. Drewes, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Head of the Chair and Research Centre for Urban Water Management at the Technical University of Munich.

Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, professor of plant ecology, Institute of Plant Sciences at the University of Bern and director of the Botanical Garden in Bern (Switzerland). He is a member of the Expert Panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Prof. Dr. Sabine Gabrysch, Professor for Climate Change and Health at the Institute of Public Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Head of the Research Department "Climate Resilience" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). (WBGU-member 11/2020–11/2022)

Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn and Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel (Co-Chair), director of the Ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Otto Pörtner, Professor and senior advisor at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.

Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke (Co-Chair), Professor of Public Law, with a focus on administrative and environmental law at the University of Greifswald and Managing Director of the Institute for Energy, Environmental and Maritime Law (IfEUS). 

Prof. Dr. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Augsburg, Director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Helmholtz Munich and Vice-director of the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg. (WBGU-member since 12/2022)

Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff, head of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS in Alzenau und Hanau and Head of the Division Materials and Resources at the TU Darmstadt.