Governing Bodies
Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß (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
Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz (Deputy Chair)
Junior Professor of Public Law, European Law and Public International Law, in particular Environmental Law and the Law of the Sea
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Dr. Thilo Scholl (Treasurer)
Head of Legal
Abellio Germany
Dr. Christian Finnern
Partner, Watson
Farley & Williams LLP
Executive Director
Christian Grimm
Bank Director, retired
Summer Academy Directors
Maurus Wollensak
Researcher at the University of Hamburg
Keri Sabrina Grammes
Board of Trustees
Institutional Members
- Tomas Heidar (Chair of the Board of Trustees and President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea)
- Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels (nominated by the President of the Max Planck Society)
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wurmnest (nominated by the President of the University of Hamburg)
Members representing the Donors
- Matthias Bochum (Hamburg Commercial Bank AG)
- Dr. Inken von Gadow (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg)
- Gesa Heinacher-Lindemann (representing DNV SE)
- Frank Leonhardt (Leonhardt & Blumberg)
- Dr. Johannes Dimroth (Federal Republic of Germany)
Other Members
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Ehlers
- Dr. Ximena Hinrichs Oyarce
- Dr. Karin Kammann-Klippstein
- Tania von Uslar-Gleichen
- Tilo Wallrabenstein
- Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lück
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