Boards

Governing Board (2023)

President

JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER

former President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister
Representing Luxembourg

Vice-President

HENDRIK HERING

President of the Parliament of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Representing Rhineland-Palatinate

Members

For the European Parliament:

Katarina Barley

Vice-President of the European Parliament

For the Court of Justice of the European Union:

Koen Lenaerts

President of the Court

For Albania:

Ulsi Manja

Minister of Justice

For Austria:

Albert Posch

Head of the Constitutional Service at the Federal Chancellery, Sektionsleiter

Representative:

Christine Pesendorfer

Head of Section V/7 – European and International Law,

Human Rights Protection, Federal Chancellery

For Belgium:

Paul Van Tigchelt

Minister of Justice

For Bulgaria:

Atanas Slavov

Minister of Justice

For Croatia:

Ivan Malenica

Minister of Justice and Public Administration

For Cyprus:

George Savvides

Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus

For the Czech Republic:

Pavel Blažek

Minister of Justice

For Denmark:

Merethe Eckhardt

Director of Development, The Danish Court Administration

For Estonia:

Kalle Laanet

Minister of Justice

For Finland:

Riku Jaakkola

Director General of the National Courts Administration

For France:

Anthony Manwaring

Head of the European and International Department, Ministry of Justice

For Germany:

Marco Buschmann

Federal Minister of Justice

For the German Länder:

Benjamin Limbach

Minister of Justice, North Rhine Westphalia

For Greece:

Ioannis Bougas

Deputy Minister of Justice

For Hungary:

Ágnes Váradi

State Secretary, Ministry of Justice

For Ireland:

June Reardon

Office of the Attorney General

For Italy:

Massimo Condinanzi

Professor at the University of Milan

For Latvia:

Dace Kazāka

Director of Development Department at the Court Administration of the Republic of Latvia

For Lithuania:

Augustas Rucinskas

Chancellor of the Ministry of Justice

For Malta:

Jonathan Attard

Minister for Justice

For the Netherlands:

Margreet Blaisse

Rector of the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary (SSR)

For Poland:

Sebastian Kaleta

Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice

For Portugal:

Fernando Ventura

Director of the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ)

For Romania:

Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu

Minister for Justice, Ministry of Justice

For Scotland:

Dorothy R Bain KC

The Lord Advocate

For Slovakia:

N.N.

Ministry of Justice

For Slovenia:

Blanka Javorac Završek

Director of the Judicial Training Centre

For Spain:

María Abigail Fernández González

Director of the Centre for Legal Studies at the Ministry of Justice

For Sweden:

Anna-Carin Svensson

Director General for International Affairs

Ministry of Justice

For the City of Trier:

Wolfram Leibe

Mayor of Trier

For the United Kingdom:

N.N.

For the Association for the Promotion of the Academy:

Jettie Van Caenegem

Inhouse Counsel, President of the Friends of ERA Association

Co-opted:

Wolfgang Heusel

former Director of the Academy of European Law Trier

Executive Board (2023)

Chairperson

SABINE VERHEYEN MEP

Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Education and Culture

Members

HERBERT MERTIN

Minister of Justice, Rhineland-Palatinate

ADRIÁN VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA MEP

Chair of the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee

Board of Trustees (2023)

Chair

MARC VAN DER WOUDE

President of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg

Deputy Chairs

ADRIANA DE BUERBA

Partner at Pérez-Llorca, Madrid

IRIS GOLDNER LANG

Professor at the University of Zagreb

Members

Vincent Asselineau

Chairman of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), Paris

David Barniville

President of the High Court, Dublin

Christopher Buttigieg

Chief Officer, Supervision, Malta Financial Services Authority, Birkirkara

Jaceck Chlebny

President of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court, Warsaw

Vassilis Christianos

Of Counsel at Christianos & Partners, Athens

Pierre-Henri Conac

Professor at the University of Luxembourg

Simone Cuomo

Secretary-General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Brussels

Catherine De Bolle

Director of Europol, The Hague

Ingrid Derveaux

Secretary-General of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), Brussels

Filippo Donati

former President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), Brussels

Freddy Drexler

Director General of the Legal Service of the European Parliament, Luxembourg

Zuzana Fišerová

Director General, International and EU cooperation at the Ministry of Justice, Prague

Anna Gardella

Senior Legal Expert at the European Banking Authority (EBA), Paris

Adrian Glaesner

Senior Legal Counsel, Head of Capital Market Law and Financing at Group Legal, Allianz SE, Munich

Cristina González Beilfuss

Professor at the University of Barcelona

Alejandra González Fernández

Member of the Boards of Appeal, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Alicante

Nina Gregori

Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), Valetta

Alice Guimaraes-Purokoski

Judge of the Finnish Supreme Court, Helsinki

Ladislav Hamran

President of Eurojust, The Hague

Sally-Anne Hinfey

Vice President, Momentive Europe UC, Dublin

Philippe Hoss

Partner at Elvinger Hoss Prussen, Luxembourg

Stephan Jaggi

Director of the German Judicial Academy, Trier/Wustrau

Iris Kieft

Associate Partner at NautaDutilh, Rotterdam

Andrej Kmecl

Judge at the Supreme Court of Slovenia, Ljubljana

Vanessa Knapp OBE

Visiting Professor Queen Mary University of London

Laura Codruța Kövesi

European Chief Prosecutor, Luxembourg

Irēna Kucina

Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia, Riga

Julia Laffranque

Judge at the Supreme Court of Estonia, Tartu

Marie Lamensch

Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Łukasz Lasek

Partner at Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw

Alexander Layton

Barrister (King's Counsel), Twenty Essex, London

Bettina Limperg

President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union, Paris

Constantinos Lycourgos

Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Aude Mahy

Partner at DALDEWOLF, Brussels

Sabine Matejka

Vice President of the European Association of Judges (EAJ), Vienna

Gabriella Muscolo

Partner at Franzosi Dal Negro Setti, Milan

Kristina Nordlander

Partner at Allen & Overy LLP, London

Rimvydas Norkus

Judge at the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg

Jan Passer

Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Luís Pereira

Deputy Attorney General at the Court of Appeal, Lisbon

Dóra Petrányi

Partner, CEE Managing Director, CMS, Budapest

Vania Petrella

Partner at Cleary Gottlieb, Rome

Vânia Costa Ramos

Partner at Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados, Lisbon

Christine Roger

Director General for Justice and Home Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Brussels

Jacob Sand

Partner at Gorrissen Federspiel, Copenhagen

Marc Schmitz

President of the European Union of Judicial Officers, Brussels

Daniel Schönberger

General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer, Web3 Foundation, Zug

Petra Senkovic

Director General Secretariat and Secretary to European Central Bank decision-making bodies, Frankfurt am Main

Nathalie Smuha

Assistant Professor at KU Leuven

Octavia Spineanu-Matei

Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Taru Spronken

Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, The Hague

Maciej Szpunar

First Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Herwig Verschueren

Professor at the University of Antwerp

Sophie Vuarlot Dignac

Head of Legal and Enforcement Department at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Paris

Christiane Wendehorst

Scientific Director of the European Law Institute (ELI), Vienna

Michael Jürgen Werner

Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Brussels

Dragomir Yordanov

Executive Director of the European School of Enforcement, Sofia

Edith Zeller

former President of the Association of European Administrative Judges, Vienna

Honorary Members

Francesco De Angelis

Hon. Director General of the European Commission, Brussels

David A. O. Edward
former judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Edinburgh

Charles Elsen

former Director General for Justice and Home Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Luxembourg

Gregorio Garzón Clariana

former Director General of the Legal Service of the European Parliament, Barcelona

Hans-Jürgen Hellwig

former President of the CCBE, Frankfurt am Main

Wolfgang Heusel

former Director of ERA

Pauliine Koskelo

Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg

Peter-Christian Müller-Graff

Senior Professor, Honorary Jean Monnet Professor, University of Heidelberg

Diana Wallis

former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Hull

Heinz Weil

former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Paris