Prof. Dr. Stephan Breidenbach (1955)

Professor of Law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Berlin / Germany

Dr. jur. Professor of Law - Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and International Law - European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Professor of Mediation - University of Vienna. Business Mediator and Arbitrator in national and international cases.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haas (1964)

Professor (Germany) Fr/Eng/Deu/It
Zurich / Switzerland & Hamburg / Germany

PhD; Professor of law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and Attorney-at-Law in Hamburg, Germany; President of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (2020- ); Former Chair of the advisory group on legal issues of the monitoring group of the Council of Europe Anti-Doping Convention (2002-2004) and member of the drafting team for the revision of the World Anti-Doping Code (2009, 2015, 2021).

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Ms Olga Hamama (1981)

Arbitrator (Ukraine) Deu/Eng/Ru
Frankfurt am Main / Germany

Arbitrator, Special Counsel at Clifford Chance Partnerschaft mit beschränkter Berufshaftung (2022- ); formerly Partner at V29 Legal (2019-2022); Formerly Principle Associate and Member of the International Arbitration Group with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (2009 – 2019); Lecturer on Sports and Dispute Resolution at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Goethe-University, Frankfurt; Member of the Working Group on Sports Law at the German Lawyers Association; Member of the Working Group on Dispute Resolution in Blockchain-based Transaction at the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center.

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Mr Axel Heck (1947)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Fr/Eng/Deu
Berlin / Germany

International arbitrator and legal counselor; Co-Chair, International Section, Indian National Bar Association

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Dr Heiner Kahlert (1983)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Deu/Eng
Munich / Germany

Dr. iur University of Zurich; Attorney-at-law and Partner at Martens Rechtsanwaltgesellschaft mbH; Head of Case Management at the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT); Member of the Legal Council of Athleten Deutschland e.V.; Member of the Ethics Board of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF); Former Member of the Permanent Court of the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB).

Mr Lars Küpper (1977)

Lawyer (Germany) Deu/Eng
Leverkusen / Germany

Law degree at the University of Cologne; LLM in European Legal Studies at the University of Durham; Admitted to the Bar of Cologne; Head of Legal Affairs/Compliance/Institutional Relations at Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fussball GmbH (2015- ); Member of the Legal Advisory Panel of the European Club Association (ECA); Vice Chair of the ECA Institutional Relations Working Group.

Dr. Sven Nagel (1970)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Leipzig / Germany

Doctor juris; Senior Partner Nagel Kauerhof Rechtsanwälte law firm; Member of the Board, Institute for German and International Sports Law, Leipzig; Former member of the GDR junior national team in wrestling.

Dr Jan Räker (1977)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Stuttgart / Germany

Legal Director at VfB Stuttgart 1893 e.V., Attorney-at-law Rechtsanwälte Prinz Neidhardt Engelschall, Hamburg; Lecturer for Sports Law and Football Management at IST Hochschule, Düsseldorf; General Counsel and CCO Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V., Hamburg; General Secretary of International Sport Lawyers Association (ISLA) since 2012; Member of ECA Legal Advisory Panel.

Mr Gordon Rapp (1957)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Heidelberg / Germany

Attorney-at-law and Senior Partner of RAPP WOLFF Rechtsanwälte. Member of the Articles Commission of the German Fencing Association 1996 - 1998. Vice President of the German Fencing Association 1998 - 2000. President of the German Fencing Association 2000 - 2014. Honorary President of the German Fencing Association. Member of the Marketing Commission of the European Fencing Association (CEE). Member of the FIE Legal Commission since 2008. Member of the ASOIF Legal Consultative Group since 2015. Member of the Executive Committee of the Olympic Training Center Rhein-Neckar since 2016.

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Ms Annett Rombach (1980)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Frankfurt am Main / Germany

LL.M - University of Miami. Attorney-at-law at Klinkert Rechtsanwälte, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Arbitrator at the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT), Geneva, Switzerland. Guest Lecturer at the University of Zurich (International Arbitration); Independent Anti-Doping Delegate (“FIS IADD”) (2019 - ).

Ms Sylvia Schenk (1952)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Frankfurt-am-Main / Germany

Consultant / Attorney at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP; Labour Court Judge at the Labour Court Offenbach/Main (1979-1989); City Councillor for Legal Affairs, Housing and Sports, City of Frankfurt (1989-2001); 1972 German Champion 800m Athletics and participant Olympic Games Munich; Member of the Management Committee of the International Cycling Federation (UCI) (2000-2005) and of FIFA's Human Rights Advisory Board (2017-2020); Member of the External Judicial Experts Group of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the Ethics Commission of the International Floorball Federation (IFF) and independent member of the IOC Advisory Committee on Human Rights.

Prof. Dr. Martin Schimke (1959)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Fr/Eng/Deu
Düsseldorf / Germany

Dr. jur.; LL.M.; Attorney at law; Of Counsel of the law firm Bird & Bird; 1998 - 2014 President of the Sports-law-Commission and member of the Governing Board of the UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats); 1998 - 2000 member of the Arbitration Panel of the professional German Ice-Hockey League (DEL); since 1997 member of the Advisory Board of the German Sports-Law Association; 1989 - 2000 member of the Legal Committee of the German Basketball Federation and member of the Anti-doping Committee of the German Basketball Federation; 1978 - 1980 member of the German Basketball National Team; since 2015 member of the Ethics Group of the FISA (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Aviron); Honorary Professor at the Hochschule Fresenius; Member of the CAS ad hoc Division at the Summer Olympic Games, London 2012 and at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyoengchang 2018. .

Prof. Dr. Christoph Vedder (1947)

Professor (Germany) Eng/Deu
Munich / Germany

Dr. jur., Professor emeritus of Public Law, Public International Law and European Law as well as Sports Law at the University of Augsburg, Germany; attorney-at-law in Munich; member of the Organizing Committee for the 11th Olympic Congress 1981; member and chairman of the Arbitration Panel of the IAAF (1992 - 2004); member of various juridical or scientifc commissions of national, european and international sports governing bodies; member of the German Institution of Arbitration (2011 - ); chairman of the Anti-Doping Hearing Panel of the IBU (2009 - 2019); member of the Juridical Commission óf the IAAF (2015 - 2019); member and chairman of the Commission for the Settlement of Disputes Related to Confidentiality of the Ortganisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands (2005 - 2011 and 2017 -) ; teaching Sports Law at various universities.

Dr Georg von Waldenfels (1944)

Attorney-at-law (Germany) Eng/Deu
Munich / Germany

Counsel at Clifford Chance Deutschland LLP; Former Minister of Finance for the State of Bavaria; Former member of the Board of Management of VIAG Telecom AG, Munich; President of German Tennis Federation (1999-2011); ITF Board of Directors (2001-_)