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Hans-Werner Sinn

Hans-Werner Sinn is the most frequently quoted economic expert in Germany. During his time as President of the ifo Institute, it became one of the leading German economic research institutes. He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Economics since 1989. Over the course of his career, Hans-Werner Sinn has been honored with numerous awards. His awards include the Financial Times Deutschland Business Book Prize, the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Prize of Maastricht University. He was named University Teacher of the Year in 2015. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Magdeburg, the University of Helsinki and the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. © ifo Institute Romy Bonitz

Donald R. Sadoway

Donald R. Sadoway is an expert in alternative energies and energy storage. In 2012, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. As part of his research, Donald R. Sadoway is concentrating on finding more efficient ways of storing energy, among other things. Its aim is to reduce the carbon footprint of various industries.

Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Director of the Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose at University College London (UCL) and holds the Chair of Economics of Innovation and Public Value. The Italian-American economist is the author of the highly acclaimed book “The Capital of the State: A Different History of Innovation and Growth”, which was on the Financial Times “Book of the Year” list in 2013. In the same year, New Republic named her one of the 3 most important “Thinkers about Innovation” and the following year Mazzucato received the New Statesman SPERI Prize for Political Economy and a year later the Hans-Matthöfer-Prize.