| Bauhus, Juergen | Professor of Silviculture | Germany | University of Freiburg |
| Baycheva, Tanya | Researcher | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Brunet Navarro, Pau | Early Stage Researcher | Germany | Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) |
| Degen, Bernd | Head of the Institute | Germany | Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute of Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries |
| Ferranti, Francesca | Project researcher /EFICENT | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Giessen, Lukas | Senior Researcher, working group leader | Germany | University of Göttingen |
| Heinrich, Spiecker | Professor | Germany | University of Freiburg |
| Held, Alexander | EFICENT | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Inhaizer, Hubert | Forest/Environmental Policy Expert | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Kraus, Daniel | Senior Researcher | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Krumm, Frank | Senior Researcher | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Lang, Friederike | Researcher | Germany | University of Freiburg |
| Pistorius, Till | Postdoc researcher | Germany | University of Freiburg |
| Schuck, Andreas | Head of Office | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |
| Spathelf, Peter | Prof. for silviculture | Germany | Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development |
| Steinsberger, Thomas Norbert | technical adviser | Germany | Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ GmbH |
| Wehrhausen, Karoline | Researcher | Germany | European Forest Institute – EFI |