Lachezar Grudev has been a visiting professor of economics, particularly economic policy, at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau since March 2023. Since 2021, he has also taught "History of Economic Thought" at the University of Siegen and "General Problems of Economic Policy" at the International University of Applied Sciences and Business in Freiburg since 2018.

In April 2022, Lachezar Grudev defended his doctoral thesis "Economic Order and Business Cycles: Four Essays on the Ordoliberal Economists Wilhelm Röpke, Walter Eucken, and Friedrich A. Lutz" at the University of Freiburg. His dissertation examines the concept of business cycles in ordoliberalism. The thesis was awarded the Adolf Lampe Prize of the University of Freiburg. From September 2020 to February 2021, he was a Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, and from 2018 to 2022, he was an Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Lachezar Grudev's interests lie in the history of economic thought, especially the Freiburg and Austrian Schools, and problems of economic policy. He is a member of the NOUS Network for Regulatory Economics and Social Philosophy, the History of Economics Society, and the Social Market Economy Action Group. He is a member of the editorial office of the Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch and is an alumnus of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Between 1999 and 2005, Stefan Kolev studied business administration and economics at the University of Hamburg. From 2006 to March 2011, he completed his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Allgoewer at the University of Hamburg on the political economy of neoliberalism. He subsequently led the research project "The Planned Economy of the GDR - Myth and Reality" at the Thuringia branch of the HWWI in Erfurt. During his doctoral studies, he presented his research findings at numerous international conferences. He was a visiting researcher at the Bulgarian National Bank in 2009 and at Duke University in the USA in 2010. His teaching activities as a doctoral student included courses in economics, quantitative methods, regulatory economics, economic policy, and the history of economics and theory at the University of Hamburg, the University of Erfurt, the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, and the Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen.

Since March 2012, Stefan Kolev has been a professor of economics, with a focus on economic policy, at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau. He is deputy chairman of the Wilhelm Röpke Institute and a research fellow at the HWWI. Stefan Kolev spent the 2016/2017 winter semester as a research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, USA.

Dr. Bernhard J. Seliger is currently the representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Korea, based in Seoul, and advises NGOs, academic institutions, and public institutions on issues of unification. He also leads the Hanns Seidel Foundation's capacity-building projects in North Korea, including the EU-DPRK Trade Capacity Project, one of the first two Asia Invest Programs in North Korea. This also includes frequent travel to various parts of North Korea. In 2006, Bernhard Seliger was awarded honorary citizenship of Seoul by the then President of South Korea, then Mayor Lee Myung-Bak.

Since 1999, Dr. Seliger has been a private lecturer (Dr.habil.) at the Institute for Cultural and Economic Systems Research at Witten/Herdecke University. From 2004 to 2006, Dr. Seliger was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University and at the Graduate School of International Area Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Previously, from 1998 to 2002, Dr. Seliger was an assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Area Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Seliger worked as a research associate at the Institute for Economic Policy at Kiel University, where he received his doctorate in 1998. Dr. Seliger holds a degree (Maitrise en sciences économiques) from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, France).

Ralph Michael Wrobel has been a full-time professor of economics, especially economic policy, at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, Saxony, since 2004.

Prof. Wrobel was born in Bremen in 1968. He is married and has three children. After completing his banking training, he studied economics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel from 1990 to 1996, and between 1996 and 1999 he earned his doctorate in political science (Dr. sc. pol.) (a doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation). His dissertation focused on the transformation process in Estonia.
From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a lecturer in economic policy at the University of Tartu in Estonia, then as a dean's assistant at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Erfurt. In 2004, he was appointed to the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau.
His teaching and research areas are social market economy and Ordnungspolitik, emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia, especially Estonia, Korea, China and the tiger states in Southeast Asia, and the economic and social history of Upper Silesia.

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