born in 1951, free lance journalist working on topics concerning Asia.
He was resident in Southasia for more than 7 years. From 1985 to 2000 he was General Secretary of South Asia Bureau, Germany and editor of South-Asia, a magazine on current South-Asian Affairs. He is also free-lancing with the German Foundation for International Development

born in 1961, trains high school teachers in Geography at State Institute for Didactics and Teachers´ Training in Karlsruhe, teaches geography, history and political sciences at a German Highschool and at the Institute for Geography and Geoecology at the University of Karlsruhe. Beside this he is co-editor of the geographical magazine "geographie heute". His main topics are Asia, economic and social geography and world water problems.