Governing Bodies
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Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lück (Chair)
Professor for Law of the Sea, Managing Director Walther-Schücking-Institut for International Law at University of Kiel.
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß (Deputy Chair)
Chair in the International Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law
Co-Director of the Institute for the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law
Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg
![Thilo Scholl](https://www.iflos.org/wp-content/uploads/thilo-scholl-267x400.jpg)
Dr. Thilo Scholl (Treasurer)
Head of Legal
Abellio Germany
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Dr. Christian Finnern
Partner, Watson Farley & Williams LLP
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Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz
Junior Professor of Public Law and European Law Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO) | Faculty of Sustainability Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Managing Director
![Manfred Lohmann](https://www.iflos.org/wp-content/uploads/manfred-lohmann-322x400.jpg)
Manfred Lohmann
Bank Director, retired
Director Summer Academy
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Christian Grimm
Bank Director, retired
Board of Trustees
- Tomas Heidar (Chair)
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Ehlers
- Dr. Inken von Gadow
- Gesa Heinacher-Lindemann
- Barbara Himmel
- Dr. Ximena Hinrichs Oyarce
- Dr. Karin Kammann-Klippstein
- Prof. em. Dr. Rainer Lagoni
- Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels
- Frank Leonhardt
- Dr. Angelika Schlunck
Initial Founders
- Hamburg Commercial Bank AG (formerly HSH Nordbank AG)
- Leonhardt & Blumberg
- DNV (formerly Germanischer Lloyd AG)
- Containerships – CMA CGM GmbH (formerly Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei GmbH & Co. KG)
- Jürgen Dipner †