Practice Areas:
Maritime and transport law, insurance law, commercial law
Functions and memberships:
Working group on transport and forwarding law of the DAV, working group on insurance law of the DAV, Deutscher Verein für internationales Seerecht (DVIS) and German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA).
Curriculum:
Traineeship as a shipping clerk, worked for Socopao S.A., Abidjan, Ivory Coast and West African P and I Services Ltd, London, both in 1988, studied in Saarbrücken and Freiburg, first state examination in law in 1993, second state examination in law in 1996, lecturer at Bremen University of Applied Sciences, including in the International Shipping & Chartering and Nautical Studies programmes as well as in the English-language IMBA International Master of Business Administration programme and at the Constructor University Bremen in the International Logistics Management and Engineering bachelor's programme
Admitted to the bar in Bremen in 1996
Doctorate in 2003
Appointment as honorary professor by the Bremen University of Applied Sciences for the subject area "Transport Law" in 2016
Languages: English, French
