Matze is a non-profit economist (M.A.), consultant for common-good-oriented organisational development and economic democracy at Humanistic Management Practices gGmbH, educational consultant for global learning and political education as well as university lecturer for ‘Economic and Organisational Democracy’ at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Design (HfGG) and ‘Alternative Economic Models in Practice’ at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland.

AHe is also politically involved in various initiatives in the context of progressive economic policy, as well as in the tenants' movement, the co-operative movement and the Roter Traktor Berlin sports club in Berlin.

Philip studied Institutional Design at the Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung (HfGG) and now applies what he learnt in practice. He is an honorary leader in the German Scout Association and a consultant at Humanistic Management Practices gGmbH. As a trained mediator and systemic organisational developer, his strengths lie in participative consulting for companies and conflict resolution.

At the same time, he conducts political education for young people and educational work on the subject of economic and organisational democracy at university level.

Michael studied economics for four semesters at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg. There he missed a pluralistic, critical and realistic view of the economy and therefore switched to the Bachelor's degree programme in Economics - Sustainability - Transformation at the Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung (HfGG) in Koblenz. Among other things, he studied the history of economic thought, various schools of theory and transformative approaches for a socially just organisation of the economy within planetary boundaries.

During his internship semester at Humanistic Management Practices (HMP), an organisational consultancy that focuses on the common good and is active in educational work, consulting and research on socio-ecological and democratic management, he became increasingly involved with the topic of economic democracy. The internship resulted in follow-up projects such as a contribution to an anthology on socialisation entitled ‘Socialisation means democratisation - an examination of company council models as a building block for a democratic economy’ or the conception and implementation of a course at the HfGG. Together with HMP and other players from the field of economic democracy, Michael would like to further advance the topic in the future.

He is currently working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, where he is writing his bachelor's thesis in the field of agrivoltaics.Des Weiteren engagiert sich Michael bei der Letzten Generation und unterstützt vor allem die Arbeit der lokalen Widerstandsgruppe in Freiburg und hält dazu Vorträge und gibt Trainings. In seiner Freizeit spielt er Tischtennis, versucht sich neuerdings im Tanzen und genießt schöne Sommertage am Seepark in Freiburg.