Governing Bodies
Board of Directors

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 (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 (Treasurer)
Head of Legal
Abellio Germany

Dr. Christian Finnern
Partner, Watson
Farley & Williams LLP

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
Bank Director, retired
Director Summer Academy

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