Conference

Speakers archive

In recent years, more than 200 excellence speakers have taken part in the conference as keynote speakers and panellists. They not only managed to take a penetrating look at the challenges of our time, but also always passed on practical solutions and best-practice experience to the participants. In 2022 alone, when the event took place in a purely virtual format, a total of more than 5,300 people were connected digitally in the stream or attended live on the on-site platform.

Markus Adick is a lawyer and founding partner of the law firm Adick Linke. Before founding his own law firm, he worked for large commercial law firms and as a partner in a leading nationwide criminal law boutique. Business media rank him among the most respected lawyers nationwide for criminal tax law and criminal law relating to business offences.

Dr. Markus Adick

Attorney at law and partner at the law firm Adick Linke, Bonn

Since 2021, the top German manager has been looking after the global M&A business of U.S. bank J. P. Morgan together with his colleague Anu Aiyengar. Previously, Dirk Albersmeier was M&A head of Germany and Austria from 2005 to 2021 and was appointed co-head of mergers and acquisitions in the EMEA region in 2015.

Dirk Albersmeier

Global Co-Head of M&A, J. P. Morgan

Benjamin Angel is Director for the portfolio "Direct Taxation and Tax Coordination". In recent years, he has in particular designed and negotiated the creation of the various European sovereign rescue funds (ESM, EFSM, EFSF) and macroprudential supervision (ESRB).

Benjamin Angel

Director Tax European Commission, Brussels

Heribert M. Anzinger has been a university professor for business and tax law at the Institute for Accounting and Auditing at the University of Ulm since 1 July 2012. His research focuses on German, European and international corporate, financial and tax law.

Prof. Dr. Heribert M. Anzinger

Institute of Accounting and Auditing, University of Ulm

Carmen Bachmann has held the chair for business taxation at the University of Leipzig since 2013. In her interdisciplinary research, she focuses on model theoretical analyses at the interface of corporate finance, tax valuation issues and information technology.

Prof. Dr. Carmen Bachmann

Corporate accounting, Financing and Taxation, University of Leipzig

Christian Bauckhage is Professor of Computer Science (Pattern Recognition) at the University of Bonn and Senior Scientist for Machine Learning at Fraunhofer IAIS. He was appointed to Bonn in 2008. His area of responsibility has spanned the fields of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for more than 20 years.

Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn and Lead Scientist for Machine Learning at Fraunhofer IAIS.

Henning Berger is a lawyer and Executive Partner of White & Case's Berlin office. He specialises in public commercial law, in particular financial regulation, and insurance law and has extensive advisory experience regarding European banking supervision and the pan-European activities of financial companies.

Dr Henning Berger

Lawyer and Executive Partner, White & Case

Varinia Bernau heads the two departments of Innovation & Digital and Success at Wirtschaftswoche. She has long reported on the digital business world for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Most recently, she also worked as a business correspondent in NRW for the paper - and has observed how German industry is seeking its way into the digital age.

Varinia Bernau

Head of Innovation & Digital and Success, Wirtschaftswoche

Sebastian Biedenkopf has been the Management Board member responsible for Legal Affairs, Compliance and Human Resources as well as Labour Director at Fresenius SE since 01.01.2021. Previously, he headed the global legal department of the Bosch Group for over seven years. From 2008 to 2012, he worked in various functions at Conergy AG in Hamburg, most recently as CFO and interim CEO.

Dr Sebastian Biedenkopf

Member of the Management Board for Legal Affairs, Compliance and Human Resources and Labour Director, Fresenius SE

Matthias Bock is Managing Director and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1999 in the legal department of Goldman Sachs International in London and has been a member of the management of the German banking subsidiary of Goldman Sachs since 2008.

Dr. Matthias Bock

Member of the Executive Board and General Counsel, Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE

Andreas Bohrer, Attorney at Law, has been General Counsel and Company Secretary of the Lonza Group since 2015 and is responsible for the areas of Legal, Compliance and IP worldwide. Prior to this, he worked for several years in various roles at Novartis and UBS AG.

Prof. Dr.Andreas Bohrer

General Counsel and Company Secretary, Lonza Group

Arndt Böhme is a tax advisor, lawyer and has worked in the corporate tax department of Wilh. Werhahn KG since 2003. There he focuses on advising the consumer goods sector. Prior to that, he worked for several years in the tax consulting department of a Big 4 company.

Arndt Böhme

Tax consultant and lawyer, Wilh. Werhahn KG

Albert Bomer is Professor of Indirect Taxation at VU University in Amsterdam. Previously, he has taught at Nyenrode Business University and was coordinator for national VAT policy at the Ministry of Finance.

Prof. Dr. Albert Bomer

Professor of Tax & Technology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Georg Borges holds the Chair of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International Business Law and Legal Theory at Saarland University. He is co-editor of numerous publications on civil law, commercial law and IT law.

Prof. Dr Georg Borges

Chair of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International commercial law, University of Saarland

Reinhard Bork was Managing Director of the Seminar for Civil Procedure and General Procedural Law at the University of Hamburg until March 31, 2022. He is co-editor of numerous publications on civil law, commercial and business law, as well as civil procedure and insolvency law.

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bork

Professor (Emeritus) of Civil Procedure and General Procedural Law, University of Hamburg

Rolf Bösinger has been State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance since March 2018, where he is responsible for customs, taxes and federal financial relations. Previously, he was State Councillor for Economic Affairs and Innovation at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Dr Rolf Bösinger

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin

Jürgen Brandt is President of the German Fiscal Court Conference and Honorary Professor at the University of Wuppertal. He was previously a judge at the Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof) in the VIII Senate, which is primarily responsible for income from self-employment and capital assets, until April 2019.

Prof. Jürgen Brandt

Judge in the VIII Senate at the Federal Fiscal Court (ret.)

Stephan Breidenbach is Professor of Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law and International Business Law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). His research focus is, among other things, the development of knowledge tools. His main focus is on Legal Tech. He is founder and head of the Legal Tech Center at the European University Viadrina.

Prof. Jürgen Brandt

Civil Law at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Markus Brem leads the GTP® TEAM and cooperates in numerous projects with the experts of the Moore Network. The GTP® TEAM supports international groups of companies and their tax advisors in the aspects of transfer pricing management. The special expertise lies with medium-sized groups of companies.

Dr. Markus Brem

Managing Director at GTP GlobalTransferPricing Business Solutions GmbH

Stefan Bruckbauer is Chief Economist at UniCredit Bank Austria AG, where he is responsible for macro and banking market research in Austria. Before joining Bank Austria, he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Economic Theory at JKU and as an economist at Zentralsparkasse in Vienna.

Stefan Bruckbauer

Chief Economist of UniCredit Bank Austria AG

Matthias Buck leads the work on European energy policy, with activities in Brussels, France, Poland, the Pentalateral Region, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania and the six Western Balkan countries. Before joining Agora Energiewende, he worked for the European Commission for several years.

Matthias Buck

Director Europe at Agora Energiewende, Berlin

Martin Clemm has been Global Legal and General Counsel at Software AG since 20219. He works with a strong focus on digitization and strategy implementation.

Martin Clemm

Global Legal & General Counsel, Software AG

Florian Degenhardt is a partner in the financing department of White & Case's Hamburg office. As a leading lawyer, he has been advising banks, financial institutions, institutional investors and companies on "green" financing and sustainable finance solutions, including project finance and bonds in the renewable energy sector, for many years.

Florian Degenhardt

Lawyer and Partner, White & Case

Stefan Denkhaus is a lawyer and founding partner of the law firm BRL BOEGE ROHDE LUEBBEHUESEN, based in Hamburg. As a lawyer and specialist solicitor for insolvency law, he is appointed as insolvency administrator and trustee for medium-sized and large companies across all sectors.

Stefan Denkhaus

Lawyer and partner at BRL, Hamburg

Klaus Günter Deutsch is Head of Research, Industrial and Economic Policy at the Federation of German Industries (BDI e.V.). Previously, he was Senior Economist at Deutsche Bank Research.

Dr. Klaus Günter Deutsch

Head of Research, Industrial and Economic Policy BDI e.V.

Christian Dorenkamp heads the Group Tax department at Deutsche Telekom. He studied law and economics at the University of Cologne, where Mr. Dorenkamp also obtained his doctorate from the Tax Law Institute. Before joining Deutsche Telekom in 2005, Mr. Dorenkamp worked for an international law firm in New York and Frankfurt.

Prof. Dr. Christian Dorenkamp

Global Head of Tax, Deutsche Telekom, Bonn

Michael Drill is responsible for the strategic and operational management of Lincoln International's activities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Benelux countries. Prior to joining Lincoln International, he led M&A at Sal. Oppenheim (Germany). Prior to that, he worked in investment banking at Citigroup Global Markets in London and Frankfurt.

Dr. Michael Drill

Chairman of the Board of Management, Lincoln International AG

Hanno Durth is a founding partner of the law firm kipper+durth and, as a lawyer, specialises in criminal defence in the field of white-collar crime. He is a founding member of the Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung e.V. (Economic Criminal Law Association) and was spokesman of the board of directors for six years. The business media count him among the most renowned white-collar criminal lawyers in Germany.

Dr Hanno Durth

Lawyer and partner in the law firm kipper+durth, Darmstadt

Jan Eckert has been General Counsel of the ZF Friedrichshafen AG technology group since 2012 and Chief Compliance Officer since 2017. Prior to this, he was a lawyer at Hengeler Mueller, was responsible for M&A in the legal department of Bayer AG and was head of the legal department of KraussMaffei AG.

Dr. Jan Eckert

Group General Counsel, ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Reiner Eichenberger has been Professor of Theory of Financial and Economic Policy at the University of Fribourg since 1998 and is co-founder and research director of CREMA. He specializes in particular in the economic analysis of the political process and political institutions.

Prof. Dr. Reiner Eichenberger

Research Director of CREMA, University of Freiburg

(Dr.) Christoph Eisenring studied economics in Bern and Maastricht. After teaching and research at Boston University, he joined the editorial staff of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2001. From 2004, Eisenring reported as a business correspondent from Frankfurt, Washington and Berlin. Since August 2019 he has been back in the business editorial office in Zurich.

Dr. Christoph Eisenring

Economic editor of the NZZ, Zurich

Joachim Englisch holds a chair for public law and tax law and is director of the Institute for Tax Law at the WWU Münster. His research focuses on tax constitutional law, international and European tax law.

Prof. Dr.Joachim English

Director of the Institute for Tax law, WWU Münster

Michael R. Fausels advises medium-sized companies, international groups and the public sector in connection with labor and social security law issues. He specializes in particular in the international deployment of personnel, the drafting of employment-law contracts and the implementation of restructuring measures as well as dismissal protection proceedings.

Dr. Michael R. Fausel

Lawyer and Founding partner, Bluedex

Detlef Fechtner is deputy chief editor of the Börsen-Zeitung. After studying politics, economics and history, he worked for news agencies and regional newspapers. For eleven years he reported as a correspondent from Brussels, mainly on the regulatory response to the financial crisis.

Dr. Detlef Fechtner

Editor-in-Chief, Börsenzeitung

Lars P. Feld holds the Chair of Economic Policy and Regulatory Economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and is Director of the Walter Eucken Institute. In addition, he has been Chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts since March 2020.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars P. Feld

Director of the Walter-Eucken Institute, University of Freiburg i.Br.

Reinhard Felke is Director in the Economic and Financial Affairs DG of the European Commission. He is responsible for policy, strategy and communication. His responsibilities include the Commission's economic forecasts, economic surveillance of the euro area and, in the context of the European Semester, the implementation aspects of the new economic recovery and resilience facility.

Dr Reinhard Felke

Director in DG ECFIN, European Commission, Brussels

Stefan Flückiger is Deputy State Secretary and Head of the Planning and Strategy Division at the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters SIF. Prior to this, he was head of the Foreign Economic Services Division in the Directorate of Foreign Economic Affairs and served as the Federal Council's delegate for trade agreements in the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO.

Stefan Flückiger

Deputy State Secretary for International Affairs of the Swiss Confederation SIF, Bern

Nikolaus Forgó is Professor of Technology and Intellectual Property Law and head of the Institute for Innovation and Digitization in Law at the at the University of Vienna. He also advises, among others, the European Commission, the German Ethics Council and various German and Austrian ministries.

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó

Director of the Institute for Innovation and Digitalization, University of Vienna

Marcel Fratzscher is President of DIW Berlin and Professor of Macroeconomics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development Goals. His work focuses on macroeconomics, distribution and integration of Europe.

Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D.

President of DIW Berlin

Stefan Fröhlich was Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 2003 to 2023. He has taught for many years as a guest lecturer at the Collège d`Europe in Bruges, the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw) and the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich

Professor of International Politics and Political Economy, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Uwe Fröhlich has been Co-Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of DZ Bank since 1 January 2019. He joined DZ BANK in November 2017 as a General Agent and previously headed the Federal Association of German Cooperative Banks (Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken) as its President since 2008.

Uwe Fröhlich

Co-Chairman of the Board the DZ Bank

Clemens Fuest is President of the Ifo Institute, Director of CES and Chair of Economics and Finance at LMU Munich and Managing Director of CESifo GmbH. His work focuses on economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy, transfers and labour markets as well as European integration.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest

President of the ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich

Georg Geberth has been part of Siemens AG since 2007 and has been Director Global Tax Policy there for more than ten years. He has also been Chairman of the Board of the Institut für Digitalisierung im Steuerrecht e.V. since 2021.

Georg Geberth

Director Global Tax Policy of Siemens AG and Chairman of the Board IDSt, Berlin

Romana Giesen is Head of the Group Tax Department of Swisscom AG as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Swisscom Italia Sarl and Managing Director of Swisscom Telco GmbH. She has many years of practice in international tax law and M&A.

RomanaGies

Head Group Tax, Swisscom

Ulrich Grau is a lawyer and business lawyer. He has been a partner in the law firm D+B Rechtsanwälte since 2006. He is one of Germany's best lawyers in the categories "Pharmaceutical Law" and "Health Law".

Dr Ulrich Grau

Attorney at Law and Partner at D+B Attorneys at Law, Berlin

Michael H. Grote researches and teaches corporate finance and capital markets at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is academic director of the Frankfurt Institute for Private Equity and M&A, one of the founding members of the Global Network on Financial Geography, and co-president of the "Frankfurt Institute for Risk Management and Regulation" (FIRM).

Prof. Dr Michael Grote

Professor of Corporate Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Michael Grupp is the founder and CEO of Bryter. He previously worked as a lawyer specialising in international arbitration and commercial litigation. In 2013, he founded the legal tech company Lexalgo, which was acquired by BRYTER in 2018. He is a member of the Executive Faculty of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession and the Task Force Legal Tech of the German Bar Association.

Michael Grupp

Founder and CEO of BRYTER

Since April 2011 Mathias Habersack has held the chair for Civil Law and Corporate Law at the LMU Munich. His research focuses on corporate, stock corporation and capital market law. Since 2018 he has also been president of the German Jurists' Association.

Prof. Dr. Mathias Habersack

Chair of Civil Affairs Law and Corporate Law, LMU Munich

Sascha Haghani is Managing Partner in Germany and a member of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger. He has been a member of the German Management Board since 2013, where he heads the global Restructuring, Performance, Transformation & Transaction group. Sascha Haghani has more than 25 years of experience in top-level management consulting.

Dr. Sascha Haghani

Senior Partner, CEO Germany and DACH Region at Roland Berger

Markus Hartung is founder of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession (CLP) and Senior Fellow at Bucerius Law School. In early 2019, he founded Chevalier Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, a legal tech-based law firm exclusively offering employment law for employees, as a lawyer and mediator. His legal specialties include legal professional and liability law as well as conflict management.

Markus Hartung

Managing Partner at Chevalier Attorneys at Law

Justus Haucap is Director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and a partner at DICE Consult. He was a member of the Monopolies Commission, which advises the German government on competition policy and market regulation, from July 2006 to June 2014 and chaired it from 2008 to 2012.

Prof. Dr. Justus Haucap

Director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, University of Düsseldorf

Dr. Sven Helm advises medium-sized companies and international groups on issues of international tax law, corporate tax law and corporate restructuring. As a specialist advisor for international tax law, he deals in particular with cross-border tax law issues. He is also Moore Global Chair Transfer Pricing.

Dr. Sven Helm

Lawyer and specialist consultant for international tax law at Moore Treuhand Kurpfalz, Mannheim

Martin Henssler is Director of the Institute for Labour and Commercial Law at the University of Cologne and of the Documentation Centre for European Lawyers' and Notaries' Law. He is also Director of the Institute for Lawyers' Law and Director of the European Centre for Liberal Professions.

Prof. Dr Martin Henssler

Director of Labor and Commercial Law, University of Cologne

Christoph Herrmann has worked as a lawyer, notary and tax advisor at Bluedex PartG mbB since 2017 and advises mainly medium-sized companies in all areas of corporate and tax law. He also provides comprehensive advice to national and international real estate investors on their investments in Germany.

Dr Christoph Herrmann

Lawyer, notary and tax consultant, Bluedex

Dennis Heuer is a lawyer and partner in the capital markets practice of White & Case's Frankfurt office. He is considered a leading lawyer in the field of structured finance and advises credit institutions, multinational companies, investment banks, finance companies, funds and public institutions in this context. He is also a contact for ESG financing.

Dr Dennis Heuer

Lawyer and Partner, White & Case

Johanna Hey is Director of the Institute for Tax Law and Prorector for International Affairs at the University of Cologne. From 2010 to 2021, she was also academic director of the Institute of Finance and Taxation. Since 2008, she has been the editor with overall responsibility for the Herrmann/Heuer/Raupach EStG/KStG commentary.

Prof.in Dr. Johanna Hey

Director of the Institute for Tax Law, University of Cologne

Felix Hierstetter has been head of the International Taxes division for various business units of the General Electric Group since 2015. He is also Chairman of the Tax Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany.

Felix Hierstetter

International Tax Director, General Electric

Mathias Hildebrandt has headed the central tax department of Bauer Media Group since January 2021. He was previously Senior Vice President Group Tax at the ProSiebenSat1 Group and before that spent more than four years building up the central tax department of the Zalando Group in Berlin.

Dr. Mathias Hildebrandt

Head of Group Tax at Bauer Media Group

Wolfgang Hildesheim studied high-energy physics. He worked at CERN and DESY. Since 2009, he has headed IBM's Big Data Industry Solution Business in Europe. Since 2012, Wolfgang Hildesheim has been responsible for the development and growth of IBM's Watson, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Business in Europe with a focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Dr. Wolfgang Hildesheim

Director, Head of Watson, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IBM

Heribert Hirte is Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg and Managing Director of the Department of Commercial, Shipping and Economic Law there. He is also a member of the German Bundestag and deputy chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.

Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte

MdB, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection

Oliver Holzinger is a lawyer, tax consultant and since 2016 managing director of Excellence Media and founder of Tax & Legal Excellence. He previously held various publishing management positions at Wolters Kluwer, dfv Mediengruppe and Handelsblatt Fachmedien.

RA/StB Oliver Holzinger

Managing Director and Founder Tax & Legal Excellence

Luise Hölscher has been appointed to the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) in 2022 and will take up the post of State Secretary for Customs, Taxes and Federal Fiscal Relations. Previously, she was Professor of Accounting & Taxation at the Frankfurt School from 2004 to 2010.

Prof. Dr. Luise Hölscher

State Secretary Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin

Joachim Jahn has been a member of the editorial board of the NJW at C.H. Beck Verlag since 2016. Prior to this, he worked for seventeen years as an editor at the FAZ, first in the business and later in the parliamentary editorial department. In addition, he is an honorary professor at the University of Mannheim and has also been a lecturer at the University of Münster since 2008.

Prof. Dr. Joachim Jahn

Member of the editorial board NJW, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG

Matthias Jahn has held the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law, economic criminal law and legal theory at the Goethe University Frankfurt/M since April 2013 and is head of the Research Center for Law and Practice of Criminal Defense. He is also a judge in the second full-time office in the 1st Criminal Senate of the OLG Frankfurt/M.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Jahn

Criminal law, criminal procedure and commercial criminal law, Goethe University Frankfurt

Claudia Junker heads Deutsche Telekom's Law & Integrity department as General Representative with responsibility for legal affairs, data protection and compliance, as well as the legal department as General Counsel. Previously, she specialised in the area of Corporate as a lawyer. She has been President of the German Association of Corporate Lawyers since 2021.

Dr Claudia Junker, LL.M.

Chief Representative Law & Integrity, German Telekom

Christian Kaeser has headed the global tax function of Siemens AG since 2009. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of WTS Group AG Steuerberatungsgesellschaft. He is President of the German National Group of the IFA and Chairman of the Tax Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Prof. Dr. Christian Kaeser

Global Head of Tax of Siemens AG, Munich

Timm Kehler is a board member of Zukunft ERDGAS e.V. Until the merger of Zukunft ERDGAS e. V. and Zukunft erdgas mobil in July 2015, he was also spokesman for the management of erdgas mobil. Kehler, who holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and industrial design, previously worked for the BMW Group in various management positions for more than twelve years.

Dr. Timm Kehler

Executive Board Future Gas

Jens Kengelbach is Global Head of M&A at Boston Consulting Group and leads the firm's M&A and post-merger integration projects. He is a member of BCG's Corporate Finance & Strategy and Industrial Goods practice areas.

Dr. Jens Kengelbach

Managing Director and Global Head of M&A at BCG, Munich

Adam Ketessidis heads the Restructuring/System Supervision Department. The department is responsible for the identification of otherwise and potentially systemically relevant institutions, the determination of capital buffers, requirements of the Shielding Act and recovery planning, as well as restructuring. It is also responsible for risk analysis for banking supervision.

Adam Ketessidis

Department President Banking Supervision, BaFin – German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority

Christian Keuschnigg is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen, specialising in public economics. In the years 2012-2014 he was director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. He is founder and director of the WPZ, based in St. Gallen and Vienna. His main research interests include tax reform, economic growth and corporate finance.

Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg

Chair of Public Finance at the University of St. Gallen

Edith Kindermann works as a lawyer and notary in her own law firm in Bremen. In addition to family law, her focus is on liability, professional and remuneration law. She has been a member of the board of the DAV since 2009 and was elected president on 21.03.2019.

Edith Kindermann

President of the German Lawyers' Association

Ferdinand Kirchhof was Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court from 2010 to 2018 and was Chairman of the First Senate during this time. In addition, he held the Chair of Public Law, Finance and Tax Law at the University of Tübingen from 1986 to 2018.

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kirchhof

Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court (ret.)

Gregor Kirchhof has held the Chair of Public Law, Financial Law and Tax Law and is Director of the Institute for Economic and Tax Law at the University of Augsburg since April 2012. His research focuses on tax and financial law, as well as public economic law, the foundations of the European Union and constitutional law.

Prof. Dr. Gregor Kirchhof

Director of the Institute for Business and Tax Law, University of Augsburg

Dr. Astrid Klesse is head of the sub-division "Fundamental Issues of Economic Policy" in the Economic Policy Department at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany and a member of the Supervisory Board of PD - Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH.

Dr. Astrid Klesse

Head of Economic Policy Division, BMWi Berlin

Moritz Koch has been with Handelsblatt since 2008 and initially worked for nine years as a correspondent in New York. Since 2017 he has been working there as a senior correspondent in the political department in Berlin. His focus is, among other things, on reporting on the EU and economic policy issues.

Moritz Koch

Senior correspondent in the political department of the Handelsblatt, Berlin

Georg Kofler teaches since 01.10.2020 at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Prior to this, he was a professor at the Institute for Financial Law, Tax Law and Tax Policy at JKU Linz from 2009. He regularly publishes on issues of international and European tax law.

Prof. DDr. Georg Kofler, LL.M.

Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU Vienna

Robert B. Koopman is Chief Economist and Director of the Department of Economic Research and Statistics at the World Trade Organization. Previously, he served as Director of Operations and Chief Operating Officer for the United States International Trade Commission.

Robert B. Koopman

Chief Economist of the WTO, Geneva

Stefan Kooths is Vice President of the IfW Kiel and Director of the Research Center Business Cycle and Growth. In addition to business cycle research, his work focuses primarily on issues of stabilization policy, monetary and exchange rate policy, international economic relations, and regulatory economics.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kooths

Director Business Cycle and Growth, IfW Kiel

Ralf Köbler is President of the Darmstadt Regional Court. He is a member of the working group "Modernisation of Civil Procedure" of the Higher Regional Courts and a member of the board of the German EDP Court Conference. From 1999, he was responsible for the modernisation of the entire Hessian judiciary and information technology in the judiciary for 15 years.

Prof. Dr Ralf Köbler

President of the Regional Court Darmstadt

Fritzi Köhler-Geib is Chief Economist at KfW and heads the Economics Department. She has over 17 years of experience at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and in the financial sector, most recently as Chief Economist for Central America at the World Bank from 2017 to 2019.

Dr Fritzi Köhler-Geib

Chief Economist of Kfw Banking Group, Frankfurt a.M.

Jasmin Kölbl-Vogt is a member of the Executive Board of Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG and responsible for Legal and Regulatory Affairs. As Division Counsel, she is responsible for Germany, Austria and Scandinavia and has been advising on banking and capital markets law for over 20 years, with a focus on structured finance and banking supervisory law.

Dr Jasmin Kölbl-Vogt

General Counsel and Member of the Management Board, Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG

As State Secretary, Jörg Kukies is responsible for the Financial Market Policy Division (Division VII) and European Policy (Division E) at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin.

Dr Jörg Kukies

State Secretary at the BMF, Berlin

Jürgen Kühling has held the Chair of Public Law, Real Estate Law, Infrastructure Law and Information Law at the University of Regensburg since 2007 and is a member of the IREBS Institute for Real Estate Management. He completed his law studies at the Universities of Trier and Nancy II.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling

Chairman of the Monopolies Commission and Chair of Public Law, Infrastructure Law, University of Regensburg

Tomi Laamanen is Chair and Professor of Strategic Management and Managing Director of the Institute of Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen. Tomi Laamanen holds doctorates in finance and strategy.

Prof. Dr. Tomi Laamanen

Managing Director and Chair of Strategic Management, University of St. Gallen

Katja Langenbucher is Professor of Civil Law, Business Law and Banking Law in the House of Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt/M. Since 2011 she holds an affiliated professorship SciencesPo in Paris. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, since October 2017 and a member of the Board of Directors of BaFin since June 2019.

Prof. Dr Katja Langenbucher

Chair of Civil Law, Business and Banking Law, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Annette Linau is a lawyer and in-house Tax Advisor and Global Head of Tax at Evonik in Essen. She has already held various positions in the tax and finance departments of the RWE Group and innogy SE.

Annette Linau, LL.M.

Senior Vice President - Global Head of Tax at Evonik Industries AG

Prof. Dr Matthias Loose is a judge at the Federal Fiscal Court and an honorary professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In the Second Senate of the Federal Fiscal Court, he is mainly concerned with questions of inheritance and gift tax as well as land transfer tax. He is the author of numerous publications and articles.

Prof. Dr Matthias Loose

Judge at the II. Senate of the BFH

Emma Lotz advises clients on all aspects of individual and collective (international) employment, residence and posting law, in particular on the structuring of (cross-border) employment relationships as well as on residence and posting law issues,

Emma Lotz

Attorney at Law at Bluedex, Frankfurt/M.

René Matteotti is a full professor of Swiss, European and International Tax Law at the University of Zurich. He is, among other things, a member of the Tax Section of EXPERTsuisse, a member of the VAT Consultative Committee appointed by the Federal Council, Editor-in-Chief of the tax law journal ASA and President of the Swiss Association of Tax Law Professors.

Prof. Dr René Matteotti

Ordinarius for Swiss, European and International Tax Law, University of Zurich

Gunter Mayr has been Head of the Section for Tax Policy and Tax Law at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Vienna since 2012 and teaches at the Institute for Financial Law at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Austrian and European corporate tax law.

Prof. DDr. Gunter Mayr

Head of Taxation at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Vienna

Christoph Meinel is Managing Director and Scientific Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) and Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty at the University of Potsdam. His special research interests lie in the areas of internet and information security as well as in the field of innovative internet applications and systems.

Prof. Dr Christoph Meinel

Chair of Internet Technologies and Systems, University of Potsdam

Jan Mendling is Einstein Professor of Process Science at the Institute of Computer Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research interests deal with various topics in the area of business process management and information systems.

Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling

Einstein Professor for Process Science at the Institute for Computer Science at Humboldt University Berlin

Martin Mildner has been CFO at United Internet since October 1, 2020 and is responsible for the areas of finance and controlling, risk management/internal auditing, legal, taxes, M&A, investment and personnel management. Prior to this, he spent 13 years with the Otto Group in Hamburg as Group General Counsel and at the same time was Global Head of M&A with worldwide responsibility for company acquisitions and sales.

Martin Mildner

CFO of United Internet AG

Rolf Möhlenbrock is the head of Department IV (Taxation - Direct Taxation) of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin.

Dr Rolf Möhlenbrock

Head of the Tax Department at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin

As a managing director at WTS, Karen Möhlenkamp advises globally active companies in the area of transport and excise taxes with an interface to energy law, such as the SESTA. A particular focus is on legal issues relating to the energy transition and sustainability from a tax perspective.

Dr. Karen Möhlenkamp

Partner and Managing Director WTS, Düsseldorf

Florian Möslein is Director of the Institute for the Law of Digitalization (IRDi) and holds the professorship for Civil Law, German and European Business Law at Philipps-Universität Marburg. He is also deputy director of the Hessian Center for Responsible Digitalization (ZeVeDi) and an associate member of the Munich Center on Governance.

Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein, LL.M. (London)

Institute for the Law of Digitization, University of Marburg

Reinhard Müller joined the political editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1998. Since July 2012 he has been the responsible editor for "Zeitgeschehen" and since 2017 for the podacast F.A.Z. Einspruch. In the same year, he received the Press Award of the German Bar Association for his "overall performance as a reporter and commentator on legal policy issues".

Dr Reinhard Müller

Editorial Director FAZ

Felix Müller is an employment law specialist at Bluedex PartG mbB and advises companies on employment law, in particular on the structuring of employment relationships, dismissal protection proceedings, works constitution law matters and restructuring. He is also responsible for the firm's international secondment practice.

Felix Müller

Lawyer, Bluedex

Klaus-Peter Naumann is Spokesman of the Board of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) and Honorary Professor of Accounting and Auditing at the EMU in Münster/Westphalia. Among other things, he is a member of the Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code, the DRSC Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Naumann

Spokesman of the board IDW

René Niessen has been Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague since 2004. Previously, he was professor of tax law at Maastricht University. Since 2007, he has also been a professor of formal tax law at Radboud University.

Prof. Dr René Niessen

Advocate General Hooge Raad, The Hague

Gregor Nöcker is a judge at the Federal Fiscal Court in the X. Senate, which is primarily responsible for the taxation of sole traders and pension taxation. Senate. He began his judicial career in 2002 at the Münster Fiscal Court.

Prof. Dr Gregor Nöcker

Judge in the X. Senate at the Federal Fiscal Court

Oliver Nussbaum has headed BASF's global tax function since June 2011. He represents BASF in various associations and is Chairman of the Tax Committee at the VCI and head of the International Tax Law working group at the BDI.

Oliver Nussbaum

Global Head of Tax, BASF AG

Dietmar Penzlin is a lawyer, solicitor (England and Wales) and partner in the Schmidt-Jorzig Petersen Penzlin law firm. He is mainly active as an insolvency administrator and concentrates his consulting services on corporate restructuring. In the business media, the lawyer and the insolvency team he heads are recommended in the field of "Insolvency and Restructuring".

Dr. Dietmar Penzlin

Lawyer, Solicitor and Partner at SJPP, Hamburg

Alessandra Perego has headed the Sonova Group's Tax Team since 2004. She is responsible for all tax matters of the Group with a focus on tax planning, international transfer pricing, corporate taxation, structuring of M&A transactions, VAT and tax accounting.

Alessandra Perego

Head Group Tax, Sonova

Christoph Peylo heads the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence with locations in Bengaluru (India), Palo Alto (USA) and Renningen (Germany). He is building Germany's largest center for artificial intelligence for Bosch.

Dr. Christoph Peylo

Global Head of Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bosch

Dirk Pohl heads the German tax practice of McDermott Will & Emery. His practice includes international tax law, group tax law and integrated legal, tax and organizational consulting. The JUVE Handbook Taxes 2021 ranks him among the leading litigators before tax courts and the Federal Fiscal Court.

Dr. Dirk Pohl

Attorney at Law/Tax Consultant, Partner at McDermott Will & Emery, Munich

Key Pousttchi holds the SAP Endowed Chair for Information Systems and Digitization, especially IT Strategy and IT Business Value, at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam. His central research topic is the fusion of the virtual and real world through the smartphone and other digital media.

Prof. Dr. Key Pousttchi

Director Institute for Information Systems and Digital Society, Potsdam

Andreas Prechtel was Managing Director of several companies in the Fidelity Group of Companies before taking over as Managing Director of the Association of Foreign Banks in Germany in 2020. He has extensive experience in the regulation of banks as well as in stock corporation and capital market law.

Dr Andreas Prechtel

Managing Director of the Association of Foreign Banks in Germany e.V.

Achim Pross is Head of the Division for International Cooperation and Tax Administration at the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Tax Administration. His department is responsible, among other things, for a wide range of BEPS actions as well as aspects of the work on taxation of the digital economy.

Dr Achim Pross

Head of International Cooperation Department, OECD

Christina Reichart works in the tax department for OMV AG. She has been head of the OMV Group Tax Department since 2015. As a member of numerous tax committees of domestic and foreign interest groups, she is regularly involved in tax legislation projects.

Mag. Christina Reichart

Vice President Tax Group, OMV

Robert Risse has been teaching at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration since May 2020 and is honorary professor for tax compliance at the Chair for Business Taxation at the University of Leipzig. Prior to this, he headed the tax and customs department of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA for twenty years.

Prof. Dr Robert Risse

Institute for International Tax Law, WU Vienna

Bettina Rodenberg has headed the Tax and Customs Department at Henkel since May 2020 and bears global responsibility for all tax and customs issues and projects. Prior to this, she worked for Beiersdorf AG from 2013 to 2020, where she was most recently responsible for the Tax and Customs Department.

Bettina Rodenberg

Corporate Vice President Tax & Trade, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Frauke Rostalski holds the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law at the University of Cologne. After research stays at Nanjing University and Seoul University, she founded the interdisciplinary research unit on "Law and Ethics of Digital Transformation" at the University of Cologne. She has been a member of the German Ethics Council since April 2020.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Rostalski

Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law, University of Cologne

As Director and Head of Tax at AXA Konzern AG, Christoph L. Rummel is responsible for all tax matters. In addition to corporate tax, his area of responsibility includes investment taxation and the taxation of insurance products.

Christoph L. Rummel

Head of Tax, AXA Group AG

Pascal Saint-Amans is Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD. He joined the OECD in 2007 as Head of the International Cooperation and Tax Competition Division at CTPA. He played a key role in driving the OECD's tax transparency agenda at the G20.

Pascal Saint-Amans

Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD

Gerald Schachner is a partner at the international law firm bpv Hügel. He is head of the tax law practice and specializes in national and international corporate tax law. In current rankings of various lawyers' directories he is frequently recommended in tax law and for restructuring.

Gerald Schachner

Lawyer, tax advisor and partner, bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte

Christoph A. Schaltegger has been Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Lucerne since 2010 and also teaches public finance at the University of St. Gallen. His research focuses on financial, tax and economic policy as well as federalism.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaltegger

Professor of Political Economy, University of Lucerne

Benno Scharpenberg has been President of the Cologne Fiscal Court since 2009. In 2005, he was appointed President of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Finance Court, where he had already served as Vice President since January 2005. After his appointment as President of the Cologne Fiscal Court, Benno Scharpenberg took over the presidency of the 2nd Senate.

Benno Scharpenberg

President of the Finance Court Cologne

Peter Schichl is Chief Legal Tech Officer, Head of Legal Services Technology & Procurement at Deutsche Telekom. In this role, he is responsible for providing legal advice to Procurement, the Technology and Innovation department, as well as the internal IT and digital transformation of the Legal department.

Dr. Peter Schichl

Chief Legal Tech Officer, Head of Technology & Procurement, Deutsche Telekom AG

Stefan Schicker is Managing Partner at SKW Schwarz and strategic consultant for technology & online projects. He has many years of practical experience in supporting complex technology projects. He is also Managing Director of SKW Schwarz @ Tech GmbH, which bundles the firm's activities in the area of legal tech.

Stefan C. Schicker

Managing Partner at SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte

As a partner at Rödl & Partner, Oliver Schmitt is responsible for advising on corporate and capital markets law as well as mergers & acquisitions at the Munich office. His clients include international owner-managed companies, private equities and listed companies.

Dr. Oliver Schmitt

Partner at Rödl & Partner, Munich

Jochen Scholten is General Counsel for Global Legal at SAP. He has worked for SAP in several legal roles since 1998. His practice focuses on contract and IP law, competition law, antitrust law and litigation.

Jochen Scholten, MBA

General Counsel, SAP SE

As Global Head of Tax, Ulrike Schramm has been in charge of the worldwide tax functions of the corporate tax department of Continental AG since March 2017. She was previously responsible for the International Tax Law department at Volkswagen from 2009 to 2016.

Dr Ulrike Schramm

Global Head of Tax, Continental AG

Maurus Schreyvogel has been Head of Legal Function Consulting at EY Law for the entire Europe West region since September 2022. Previously, he was Legal Innovation Officer at the Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis for many years.

Maurus Schreyvogel

Chief Legal Innovation Officer of Novartis International AG

Johannes Schulte has been General Counsel of the Douglas Group since December 2014, where he is responsible for legal affairs, compliance, insurance and data protection. Prior to this, he was General Counsel of Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, a joint venture of Siemens AG and The Gores Group.

Dr. Johannes Schulte

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Douglas Group

Kerstin Schulz is Global Head of Tax and Customs at Beiersdorf. Previously, she worked for eight years as Vice President Corporate Tax at Fresenius, where she dealt with financing, M&A and strategic projects, among other things. Before joining Fresenius, she worked at KPMG for six years.

Kerstin Schulz

Global Head of Tax and Customs, Beiersdorf AG

Tina Schumann has been responsible for the global tax department of Deutsche Bank AG as Deputy Head of Department since October 2021. From 2015 to 2021, she headed the Group Tax department of Deutsche Lufthansa AG as an authorized signatory and was a member of the Global Leadership Team, the Finance Committee and the Group Compliance Committee.

Tina Schumann

Deputy Head of Tax at Deutsche Bank AG

Roman Seer has held the Chair of Tax Law and been Director of the Institute for Tax Law and Tax Execution at the Ruhr University Bochum since October 1996. Since February 2012, he has chaired the Berliner Steuergespräche e.V. and is a board member of the DWS Institute.

Prof. Dr Roman Seer

Director Institute for Tax Law, Ruhr-Uni-Bochum

Madeleine Simonek is a full professor of Swiss and International Tax Law at the University of Zurich. She is also an attorney-at-law and certified tax expert and works as a consultant at the law firm Schellenberg Wittmer AG in Zurich. Her research and consulting focus is on corporate tax law and international tax law.

Prof. Dr. Madeleine Simonek

Professor of International and Swiss Tax Law, University of Zurich

Rainer Spatscheck has been a partner in the commercial law firm Kantenwein, Zimmermann, Spatscheck & Partner since April 2018. Prior to this, he was a partner at Streck Mack Schwedhelm for 24 years, where he headed the Munich office. He is one of the most prominent criminal defence lawyers in Germany and has extensive consulting experience in the field of criminal tax law.

Dr. Rainer Spatscheck

Lawyer and Partner at Kantenwein Zimmermann Spatscheck & Partner, Munich

Christoph Spengel has held the Chair of ABWL and Business Taxation II at the University of Mannheim since 2006. In addition, he is academic director of the Mannheim Master of Accounting & Taxation at Mannheim Business School (MBS) and director and speaker of the Leibniz Science Campus "MannheimTaxation".

Prof. Dr. Christoph Spengel

Professor of International Taxation, University of Mannheim, Head of the WissenschaftsCampus Mannheim Taxation

Andreas Steck has been responsible for Linklaters' European business as Regional Managing Partner Europe since 1 January 2022. He specializes in banking supervisory law, investment law and insurance supervisory law and advises ministries, public authorities and financial services providers on restructuring projects.

Andreas Steck

Lawyer and Regional Managing Partner Europe at Linklaters, Head of Lounge Frankfurt/M. at Tax & Legal Excellence

As Vice President, Daniela Steierberg has been responsible for Corporate Tax & Customs for the Nordex Group since 2019. She has many years of experience in national and international tax law as well as in the organizational development of tax departments and the structuring of multinational corporations.

Daniela Steierberg

Head of Corporate Tax & Customs at Nordex, Hamburg

Philipp Steinberg is Head of the Economic Stabilization and Energy Security Division at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. Philipp Steinberg studied law and political economy as well as taxation in Berlin, Münster and Paris.

Dr. Philipp Steinberg

Head of Department Economic Stabilization and Energy Security, BMWK Berlin

Alexander Steinbrecher has been Head of Legal at Getir Germany since January 2022. Previously, he was Head of Group Corporate M&A and Legal Affairs at Bombardier until early 2021, when the company was acquired by Alstom.

Dr. Alexander Steinbrecher, LL.M.

Head of Legal at Getir Germany, Berlin

Christian Stender has been a partner at KPMG since 2016 as a tax advisor and business graduate and has also been Head of Tax Innovation & Technology since 2019. In this role, his focus is primarily on the dynamics and sustainability of the tax advisory industry.

Christian Stender

Partner, Head of Tax Innovation & Technology, KPMG

Peter-Tobias Stoll is Professor of Public Law and Public International Law (International Economic Law) at the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and Director at the Institute for International and European Law. There he heads the Department of International Economic and Environmental Law.

Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll

Director of International Business and Environmental Law, University of Göttingen

Richard Susskind is an author, speaker and independent consultant to major law firms and national governments. His primary area of expertise is the future of professional services and, in particular, how IT and the Internet are changing the way lawyers work. He has been involved withlegal technology for over 30 years.

Prof. Richard E. Susskind

President of the Society for Computers and Law, London

Patrick Teubner comprehensively advises and represents companies and individuals nationwide and internationally in criminal law crisis situations as well as in preliminary and criminal proceedings. Since 2004, he has also been a lecturer in the master's program in corporate and tax law at the University of Potsdam.

Dr. Patrick Teubner

Attorney and Partner at Krause & Kollegen, Berlin

Since 2011 Ulrich Torggler has held the chair of corporate law, with special emphasis on the interrelation with general civil law, as well as being chairman of the Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on corporate law, corporate and capital market law.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Torggler

Head of the Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Vienna

Frank Umbach is research director of the European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS). In 2010, he became a member of the Energy Security Working Group of the Ukraine 2020 Task Force.

Dr. Frank Umbach

Research Director of EUCERS, University of Bonn

Sven-Holger Undritz heads the German restructuring and insolvency practice of the international law firm White & Case and is a partner at White & Case in Hamburg. He has extensive experience in advising German and international clients on corporate reorganisations and restructurings. He has also been regularly appointed as an insolvency administrator since 1998.

Dr Sven-Holger Undritz

Lawyer and Partner White & Case LLP, Hamburg

Roland Vogl is Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology and a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School. He focuses his work on legal informatics at the Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX), which he co-founded and serves as Executive Director.

Dr. Roland Vogl

Executive Director and Lecturer in Law, Stanford Center of Legal informatics

Carsten Volkery joined Handelsblatt in 2017 and initially spent five years as a correspondent in London. In April 2022, he moved to Brussels, where his responsibilities include financial and economic policy issues.

Carsten Volkery

Europe Correspondent Handelsblatt, Brussels

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Professor of Public Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. Previously, he was President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Court, member of the Science Council as well as of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

Prof. Dr Armin von Bogdandy

Director at the MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Vanessa Westphal has held various positions and responsibilities at Merck KGaA since 2013 and has been Head of Group Legal Services since July 2022. Before joining Merck, she was a lawyer at Clifford Chance from 2008 to 2013, advising international pharmaceutical and life science companies on regulatory and compliance matters, including healthcare transactions.

Dr. Vanessa Westphal, LL.M.

Head of Group Legal Services at Merck KGaA

Volker Wieland is Foundation Professor of Monetary Economics and Director of the IMFS at the Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.. He is also a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. His research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles and macroeconomic models as well as inflation and deflation.

Prof. Volker Wieland, Ph.D.

Director of the IMFS, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Stefan Wintels has been co-head of Citigroup's global Financial Institutions business since February 2020. Prior to this, he was Chief Country Officer Germany and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG. Since 2008, he has also been responsible for Corporate & Investment Banking in Germany and Austria and headed the Financial Institutions division in the EMEA region until 2018.

Stefan Wintels

Global Co-Head Financial Institutions Group (FIG), Frankfurt/M.

Michaela Witzel is a founding partner of Witzel Erb Backu & Partner. As a specialist in IT law, she focuses on IT contract law, international transactions involving technology, and copyright and database law with a focus on open source compliance.

Michaela Witzel

Partner at Witzel Erb Backu & Partner, Munich

Hans-Michael Wolffgang is Professor of International Trade and Tax Law and Head of the Institute for Customs and International Trade Law (ICTL) at the University of Münster. He is a co-partner of AWB Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH and AWB Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, based in Münster, Hamburg and Munich.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Wolffgang

Director of the Institute for Customs and Foreign Trade Law, WWU Münster

Monika Wünnemann has headed the BDI's tax department since February 2019. Previously, she was responsible for the Taxes and Customs Department at the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) from the end of 2013 to January 2019. (VDA). Her professional focus is on wage tax, corporate taxes and tax procedural law.

Dr Monika Wünnemann

Head of Department Taxes and Fiscal Policy, BDI Berlin

Richard J. Wuermli is Managing Partner of TAX EXPERT International AG with headquarters in Zurich, Rapperswil and Zug. Prior to that, he was Partner-in-Charge of the tax and legal department of Deloitte in Zurich for ten years. He advises companies in complex national and international M&A transactions, spin-offs & split-offs, financial structures and transfer pricing.

Richard J. Wuermli

Managing Partner, Tax Expert International AG, Zurich

Nikolaus Zorn is President of the Senate at the Administrative Court in Vienna and University Professor of Tax Law in the Financial Law Department of the Institute of Corporate Law at the University of Innsbruck.

Prof. Dr Nikolaus Zorn

President of the Senate at the Administrative Court, Vienna

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The positions and CVs of the speakers refer to the year in which they participated in the event.