Lukas Beckmann, farmer and sociologist, self-employed, chairman of the supervisory board of Correctiv gGmbH (platform for investigative journalism), from 2011-2017 board member of GLS Bank Stiftung and GLS Treuhand e.V., previously managing director of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group. Co-founder of the Green Party and the Heinrich Böll Foundation as well as, among others, Mehr Demokratie e.V., Bioboden-Genossenschaft, Bündnis Bürgerenergie. In the 80s, cooperation with civil rights activists in Central Eastern Europe and the GDR. He has been self-employed since 2017. He lives in Zernikow near Gransee and in Berlin.