Hans-Peter Meister founded IFOK in 1995 and led the business until 2017, when he took on a supervisory role and became a Senior Vice President at Cadmus Group, overseeing the further international expansion of IFOK and Cadmus Group. He has established several successful companies after having worked at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and at the BASF. Peter Meister is a well-known international leader in the field of sustainability, dialogue, participation and mediation. He also serves as President of the non-profit Transforum e.V., which runs the European Citizens Network, giving people a voice in political decision making. Dr. Meister holds a doctorate degree in Biology from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg