Governing Bodies
Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lück (Chair)
Professor for Law of the Sea, Managing Director Walther-Schücking-Institut for International Law at 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
Faculty of 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 Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO) | Faculty of Sustainability 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)
- 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
- Tania von Uslar-Gleichen
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 †