ERA – Academy of European Law

Governing Board

The Governing Board lays down the general guidelines for the activities of the Academy. It appoints the Members of the Board of Trustees, the Members of the Executive Board and the Management Board. It adopts the budget and receives the annual accounts from the Management Board.

President

Dr Jacques Santer
Former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, former President of the European Commission, former Member of the European Parliament
Representing Luxembourg

Vice-President

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

Members

For the European Parliament:
Pavel Telička
Vice-President of the European Parliament

For the Court of Justice of the European Union:
Koen Lenaerts
President of the Court

For Austria:
Dr Gerhard Hesse
Head of the Constitutional Department, Federal Chancellery

For Belgium:
Koen Geens
Minister of Justice

For Bulgaria:
Tsetska Tsacheva
Minister of Justice

For Croatia:
Dražen Bošnjaković
Minister of Justice

For Cyprus:
Costas Clerides
Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus

For the Czech Republic:
Petr Jäger
Deputy Minister of Justice

For Denmark:
Merethe Eckhardt
Director of Development, The Danish Court Administration

For Finland:
Kari Kiesiläinen
Director General, Ministry of Justice

For France:
Caroline Gontran
Head of the European and International Department, Ministry of Justice

For Germany:
Heiko Maas
Federal Minister of Justice and for Consumer Protection

For the German Länder:
Peter Biesenbach
Minister of Justice, North Rhine Westphalia

For Greece:
N.N

For Hungary:
Dr. László Trócsányi
Minister of Justice

For Ireland:
Deirbhle Murphy
Office of the Attorney General

For Italy:
Massimo Condinanzi
Professor at the University of Milan

For Latvia:
Edvīns Balševics
Director of the Court Administration of the Republic of Latvia

For Lithuania:
N.N

For Malta:
Hon. Dr Owen Bonnici
Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Government

For the Netherlands
F.C. Bakker
President of the Raad voor de Rechtspraak

For Poland:
Łukasz Piebiak
Vice minister of Justice

For Portugal:
Dr João da Silva Miguel
Director of the Centre for Judicial Studies

For Romania:
Tudorel Toader
Minister of Justice

For Scotland:
James Wolffe QC
The Lord Advocate

For Slovakia:
Monika Jankovská
Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice

For Slovenia:
Professor Dr. Janez Kranjc
University of Ljubljana

For Spain:
Israel Pastor Sainz-Pardo
General Director of the Centre for Legal Studies at the Ministry of Justice

For Sweden:
Dr 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:
Jonathan Jones
The Treasury Solicitor

Special representative of the state where the Academy has its seat:
Doris Ahnen
Minister of Finance

For the Association for the Promotion of the Academy:
Horst Langes
Former Member of the European Parliament, former Rhineland-Palatinate Secretary of State

Co-opted

Peter Schmidhuber
Former Member of the European Commission

Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

Governing Board