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Patrons & Officers


  • Mr Bruce Mauleverer KC

President

  • Professor Maria Gavouneli

Chair

  • Professor Warren Binford
  • Professor Christine Chinkin

Vice Chair

  • Professor Catherine Kessedjian
  • Professor James A. R. Nafziger
  • Professor Damilola S Olawuyi SAN
  • Doctor Christopher Ward SC

Vice President

  • Doctor Ricardo R Balestra
  • Professor Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel
  • Professor Manuel de Almeida Ribeiro
  • Mr Eduardo Grebler
  • Professor Nicolaas J Schrijver
  • Professor Hennie Strydom
  • Professor Ruth Wedgwood
  • Professor Shunji Yanai

Treasurer

  • Professor Rainer Hofmann

Secretary General

  • Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos

Director of Studies

  • Professor Lucas Lixinski

Chief Executive Officer

  • Mr Nicholas May

Media Officer

  • Ms Elena Athwal

Diversity & Inclusion Officer

  • Doctor Chantal Ononaiwu

The Executive Council consists of the President; Vice-Presidents and Patrons, the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the Executive Council, the Director of Studies, the Treasurer and the Secretary-General and other members elected in accordance with the Constitution.

Members

  • Associate Professor Erjon Muharremaj (Albania)
  • Professor Doctor Gentian Zyberi (Albania, Norway)
  • Professor James A. R. Nafziger (American)
  • Doctor Nikolaus Pitkowitz (American, Austria, Germany)
  • Professor Leila Sadat (American)
  • Professor Michael Scharf (American)
  • Professor David P Stewart (American)
  • Doctor Callista Harris (Australia)
  • Doctor Christopher Ward SC (Australia)
  • Professor August Reinisch (Austria)
  • Professor Alena Douhan (Belarus)
  • Professor Kim Van der Borght (Belgium)
  • Professor Lucas Lixinski (Brazil)
  • Professor Aziz Tuffi Saliba (Brazil)
  • Professor Marcilio Toscano Franca-Filho (Brazil)
  • Mr Jeremy P Carver (British)
  • Professor Christine Chinkin (British)
  • Lord Jonathan Mance (British)
  • Mr Bruce Mauleverer KC (British)
  • Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos (British)
  • Doctor Anton Stankov (Bulgaria)
  • Professor Tamfuh Y.N Wilson (Cameroon)
  • Doctor Oonagh Fitzgerald (Canada)
  • Doctor Chantal Ononaiwu (Caribbean)
  • Professor Kuan-Hsiung Wang (Chinese (Taiwan))
  • Professor Sea-Wain Yau (Chinese (Taiwan))
  • Ms Maria del Pilar Vanegas Guzman (Colombia)
  • Professor Hrvoje Sikiric (Croatia)
  • Professor Pavel Sturma (Czech Republic)
  • Professor Ole Spiermann (Denmark)
  • Doctor Henry Kibet Mutai (East African)
  • Justice Gustaf Moller (Finland)
  • Doctor Carla Baker-Chiss (France)
  • Professor Catherine Kessedjian (France)
  • Professor Franck Latty (France)
  • Doctor Marc Bungenberg (Germany)
  • Professor Stephan Hobe (Germany)
  • Professor Rainer Hofmann (Germany)
  • Professor Markus Krajewski (Germany)
  • Professor Maria Gavouneli (Greece)
  • Doctor Anastasios Gourgourinis (Greece)
  • Professor Vasileios Pergantis (Greece)
  • Mr Ahmed Essa Al-Sulaiti (Gulf Cooperation Council)
  • Ms Elena Athwal (Gulf Cooperation Council)
  • Ms Sarah Elnour (Gulf Cooperation Council, Switzerland)
  • Mr Nicholas May (Headquarters)
  • Mr Daniel R Fung SC (Hong Kong)
  • Professor Vanda Lamm (Hungary)
  • Mr Pravin H Parekh (India)
  • Mr Michael Becker (Ireland)
  • Professor Alberto Malatesta (Italy)
  • Professor Attila Tanzi (Italy)
  • Professor Yasumasa Nagamine (Japan)
  • Professor Kazuhiro Nakatani (Japan)
  • Professor Koji Teraya (Japan)
  • Professor Shunji Yanai (Japan)
  • Doctor Ibrahim Aljazy (Jordan)
  • Doctor Felicity G Attard (Malta)
  • Mr Steven Sarangavany Sengayen (Mauritius)
  • Ambassador Joel Antonio Hernandez Garcia (Mexico)
  • Doctor Iliana Rodriguez Santibañez (Mexico)
  • Associate Professor Alberto Costi (New Zealand)
  • Mr Bill Mansfield (New Zealand)
  • Mr Lesther Antonio Ortega Lemus (Nicaragua)
  • Mr Edgardo Sobenes Obregon (Nicaragua)
  • Professor Damilola S Olawuyi SAN (Nigeria)
  • Clement Ighodarho Osuya (Nigeria)
  • Honourable Danela Arsovska (North Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia))
  • Associate Professor Stian Øby Johansen (Norway)
  • Mr Arshad Ghaffar (Pakistan)
  • Professor Alfredo Crosato Neumann (Peru)
  • Professor Jerzy Menkes (Poland)
  • Professor Manuel de Almeida Ribeiro (Portugal)
  • Professor Patricia Galvão Teles (Portugal)
  • Professor Fernando Loureiro Bastos (Portugal)
  • Doctor Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi (Qatar)
  • Ms Alina Orosan (Romania)
  • Professor Anatoly Kapustin (Russia)
  • Doctor Amadou DIENG (Senegal)
  • Doctor Aboubacar Fall (Senegal)
  • Professor Milenko Kreca (Serbia)
  • Professor Swee Yen Koh SC (Singapore)
  • Mr Teck Wee Tiong (Singapore)
  • Mr Metod Špaček (Slovakia)
  • Professor Vasilka Sancin (Slovenia)
  • Professor Hennie Strydom (South Africa)
  • Professor Julio Gonzalez Soria (Spain)
  • Mr John Kadelburger (Sweden)
  • Mr Stefan Wehrenberg (Switzerland)
  • Professor Andreas R Ziegler (Switzerland)
  • David Althoff (The Netherlands)
  • Professor Nicolaas J Schrijver (The Netherlands)
  • Professor Aukje van Hoek (The Netherlands)
  • Professor Tenia Kyriazi (United Arab Emirates)
  • Doctor Oswaldo Martinez Brett (Venezuela)
  • Doctor Cemalettin Karadas

Co-opted Members

  • Professor Pierre Bodeau-Livinec
  • Professor Marcel M T A Brus
  • Doctor Kamal Hossain
  • Professor James A. R. Nafziger
  • Doctor Sarah M H Nouwen
  • Professor Alfred H A Soons
  • Professor Doctor Maureen Williams
  • Mr David J C Wyld

The Full Council consists of the Members of the Executive Council together with the Presidents and Secretaries of all Branches.

  • Ms Elena Athwal
  • Professor Christine Chinkin
  • Professor Maria Gavouneli
  • Professor Rainer Hofmann
  • Professor Catherine Kessedjian
  • Professor Lucas Lixinski
  • Mr Nicholas May
  • Professor James A. R. Nafziger
  • Professor Damilola S Olawuyi SAN
  • Doctor Chantal Ononaiwu
  • Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos
  • Doctor Christopher Ward SC

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