Governing Bodies

Board of Directors

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

Thilo Scholl

Dr. Thilo Scholl (Treasurer)

Head of Legal
Abellio Germany

Dr. Christian Finnern

Partner, Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Managing Director

Manfred Lohmann

Manfred Lohmann

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 †