The criteria used to select BioEconomyCouncil members were individual expertise and areas of research.

In appointing members to the Council, acatech – the German Academy of Science and Engineering – strove to cover as many areas of the bio-economy as possible. In particular these include agricultural areas such as soil and land use, plant and animal breeding, and agricultural economics.

The make-up of the Council also takes into account the structural features of research in Germany. For this reason, members of the BioEconomyCouncil come from both university and non-university research institutions. Consideration was also given to the departmental research of the German government and research in the private sector.

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