Andreas Bummel is a co-founder and Executive Director of Democracy Without Borders and is involved in the international campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a co-convenor of the “We The Peoples” campaign for inclusive global governance, which launched in 2019 and endorses a World Citizens’ Initiative, among other initiatives. His professional background includes serving as coordinator for UN reform issues of the Society for Threatened Peoples, a leading German human rights organization, from 1998 to 2008. Furthermore, he was a member of the Council of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy in New York from 1998 to 2018. In 2018, Bummel authored a major book on the history, relevance, and implementation of a world parliament, co-authored with Jo Leinen, titled “A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century.” An updated and expanded edition of this work was published in 2024.
His expertise centers on global governance and international democratic structures. In addition to his work with the World Federalist Movement, Bummel is a member of the advisory board of the World Government Research Network. He has been recognized by the Society for Threatened Peoples, which awarded him an honorary membership in 2015. His contributions to the field were noted when a submission he made was a semi-finalist in the New Shape Prize in 2016 of the Global Challenges Foundation. In 2020, he spoke at the Athens Democracy Forum, an event mentioned in The New York Times.
