| 2010 | Professor Richard Mancke, PhD | Former Academic Director of HHL's MBA programs | |||
| 2010 | Dr. h.c. Bernhard Walter | Former Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Dresdner Bank / Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HHL 2001-2009 | |||
| 2008 | Professor Kurt Biedenkopf | Former Minister-President of the Free State of Saxony, one of the pacesetters for re-founding HHL as a private business school after Germany´s reunification | |||
| 2008 | Thomas Middelhoff | Former Chief Executive Officer of Arcandor AG | |||
| 2008 | Professor Michael E. Porter, PhD | Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, one of the world´s leading economists in the field of strategic management, regarded one of the most important academic economists alive | |||
| 2005 | Dr. Ing. Wendelin Wiedeking | Former Chief Executive Officer of Dr. Ing h. c. F. Porsche AG, outstanding personality representing an outstanding brand | |||
| 2005 | Professor A. Michael Spence, PhD | Professor Emeritus of Management, former Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, pioneer in strategic management science | |||
| 1999 | Professor Heribert Meffert | Founder and Director Emeritus of the „Institut für Marketing der Universität Münster“, the first marketing institute at a German university, Chair of presidium and board of trustees of the Bertelsmann Foundation, Academic Dean of HHL 1995-1997, Member of HHL´s Supervisory Board | |||