Susanne has been working as a television journalist for almost 30 years. After getting her start through a traineeship at Radio Bremen, she now does TV documentaries for ARD, NDR and ARTE. Her interest in constructive journalism began even before she knew the term existed, following her belief that it is essential to introduce people who offer solutions to the pressing problems of our time. Her past work includes several documentaries on peat ecosystems in northern Germany – once largely covered by moors that today are almost completely drained and destroyed – and the ambitious researchers and daring entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to reestablish and cultivate moorland using new techniques. Presenting these pioneers is constructive journalism, but should actually be a matter of course for journalists.

Beatrix has a doctorate in National Economics, which she gained at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1984. She has been an environmental activist for more than 30 years. After training as a journalist at a regional daily newspaper, she studied economics, political science and sociology in Berlin, primarily at the Technische Universität, and worked as a researcher and lecturer at FU Berlin. In 1987/88 she was economic speaker for the Green Women’s Parliamentary Group in the Hamburg parliament, and then spent 20 years at the Bremen Chamber of Employees as a consultant for economic policy, urban development and environment. Since 1995, she has been a member (and chair) of the executive committee of BUND (Friends of the Earth) Bremen. From 1996 to 2008 she was a member of Radio Bremen’s broadcasting commission. In 2008 she began working as an author and filmmaker with Richard Grassick, most recently on Pedelec to Paradise. In 2013 she co-founded Moving Films and in 2016 Bremenize, a blog about cycling and liveable cities. A blog about cycling in Provence, France is planned for 2022.

Ajith is a development professional with a history of working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector helping to build non-sewered sanitation solutions. Over the years he has fulfilled capacity building, knowledge management, project management and proposal development roles. He is currently a project manager at UrbanWaters Consulting, with previous posts at water and sanitation-focussed NGOs in India and in Bremen, Germany. He has a master’s degree in Technology and Development (IIT Bombay). With work experiences in varying technical contexts, he is excited about the opportunity to extend his expertise into the communication and promotion of workable solutions.

Adrian has been an International urban and environmental planning practitioner since 1999, primarily as an advisor and also in project management, capacity building/training, humanitarian work with refugees, volunteering and research. His work and interests focus on improving living conditions and resilience in disadvantaged urban environments of low- and middle-income countries. His experience includes Local Urban Planning and Development Advisor with GIZ´s Malawi Programme for Democratic Decentralisation; numerous assignments for BORDA’s Africa, SE Asia and Latin America regions in integrated urban planning and community development; neighbourhood management in Germany; refugee camp coordination; slum upgrading research and tool development at UN HABITAT, Kenya, and infrastructure planning in Australia. He holds a master’s degree in International Urban and Environmental Management for International Development Co-operation from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), and is a member of TRIALOG and NAERUS.

Christoph has a 30-year history as a journalist and media expert with a strong focus on media training. After graduation from the University of Bremen in German literature and history, he published the book The Laws of Apartheid in 1986. He worked as an editor, reporter and presenter at Radio Bremen for more than ten years. In 1999, he founded his own TV production house Südost-Medienagentur with branches in Bremen, Belgrade, Chisinau and Sofia. Südost-Medienagentur conducted TV trainings for young journalists from South-Eastern Europe, and produced films for German TV (3sat/ZDF, Deutsche Welle) as well as a business magazine with a four-year run on Serbian state TV RTS. From 2009 to 2011 he was editor-in-chief of center.tv Bremen. He is the founder of a Bremen-based PR agency and was head of PR for five years at BORDA, an NGO implementing water and sanitation projects around the world. During that time, he was responsible for the communication of the EU Horizon 2020 project INNOQUA, and held media workshops on water reporting in Jordan, Kurdistan/Northern-Iraq and Uzbekistan. Since 2012 he has been a lecturer in the media department of the University of Bremen.