4th Meeting of IDOS International Scientific Advisory Board (ISB)

The discussions focused on 2025 achievements and global economic challenges.

On the 3rd and 4th of March, our International Scientific Advisory Board (ISB) met in Bonn for its fourth yearly meeting. The board brought together internationally recognised scholars from Germany and abroad, representing different scientific views and disciplines, and brought relevant experience at the intersection of science and policy.

The meeting opened with remarks by Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Dr Axel Berger, who highlighted IDOS’s achievements and impact in 2025, as well as the strategic planning to maintain and develop new partnerships for 2026. The proceedings also included the public evening event “Disruption & Reform: Shifting Geoeconomic Tides“. The panel examined how disruptive trade policies, geopolitical competition over critical resources, and the erosion of multilateralism are undermining rules-based global economic governance, and explored reform pathways that respond to these challenges in an emancipatory way.

Panellists included Prof. Eddie H. Allison from World Fish, Prof. Clara Brandi from IDOS and the University of Bonn, Roland Siller from Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), Dr Samira Sultan from the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, and Dr Axel Berger from IDOS as moderator.