Governing Bodies

Board of Directors

Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lück

Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lück (Chair)

Professor for Law of the Sea
Managing Director of the Walther-Schücking-Institute for International Law
University of Kiel

Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß

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
University of Hamburg

Dr. Thilo Scholl

Dr. Thilo Scholl (Treasurer)

Head of Legal
Abellio Germany

Dr. Christian Finnern

Dr. Christian Finnern

Partner, Watson
Farley & Williams LLP

Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz

Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz

Junior Professor of Public Law and European Law with a Focus on Sustainability
Co-Director of the Leuphana Center for European and International Law
Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Managing Director

Manfred Lohmann

Manfred Lohmann

Bank Director, retired

Director Summer Academy

Christian Grimm

Christian Grimm

Bank Director, retired

Board of Trustees

  • Tomas Heidar (Chair)
  • Matthias Bochum
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Ehlers
  • Dr. Inken von Gadow
  • Gesa Heinacher-Lindemann
  • Dr. Ximena Hinrichs Oyarce
  • Dr. Karin Kammann-Klippstein
  • Prof. em. Dr. Rainer Lagoni
  • Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels
  • Frank Leonhardt
  • Dr. Angelika Schlunck
  • Tania von Uslar-Gleichen
  • Tilo Wallrabenstein

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