The General Assembly Elects a new Advisory Board

Newsletter 3/2026 - News

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The DIS elected a new Advisory Board at its general assembly following the DIS Spring Conference on 12 May in Leipzig. Assembly members elected all 20 candidates proposed by the Advisory Board, to replace the previous board, which had fulfilled its regular four-year term.

By appointing new members to the Advisory Board, DIS is fulfilling its commitment to ensuring that the various stakeholder groups important to DIS are appropriately involved. The new Advisory Board brings together expertise from the worlds of business, academia, the judiciary, politics, sport, institutions and associations, as well as from the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

The DIS Advisory Board advises and supports the Board of Directors on all matters of particular importance, particularly regarding the budget and membership fee regulations, as well as on major projects. It usually meets at least once a year and elects a chairperson and a deputy at its first meeting.

On 11 June 2026, the members of the Advisory Board elected at their first meeting Joachim Münch as chairman and Karsten Grillitsch as deputy chairman from among their ranks.

The following individuals were elected (in alphabetical order). 

Chairman of the Advisory Board
  • Joachim Münch, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board
  • Karsten Grillitsch, Robert Bosch
Other members of the Advisory Board
  • Stephan Breidenbach, arbitrator (CAS/Restitution for Nazi-era theft)/business mediator
  • Alexander Demuth, Secretariat Advisors
  • Alexander Graeser, Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB)
  • Karsten Grillitsch, Robert Bosch
  • Susanna Hollweg-Stapenhorst, Presiding Judge at the Kammergericht
  • Stefan Hülshörster, German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ)
  • Thomas Klippstein, retired judge
  • Stefan Leupertz, Leupertz Baukonfliktmanagement
  • Holger Niese, German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB)
  • Carlo Ottaviano, TenneT GmbH & Co KG
  • Thomas Riehm, University of Passau
  • Giesela Rühl, Humboldt University Berlin
  • Christiane Schmaltz, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
  • Kai Schumacher, AlixPartners
  • Max Thümmel, Bayer
  • Hannah Tümpel, mediator
  • Benjamin Vollmer, VDMA
  • Thomas von Plehwe, lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice

We look forward to working with the new DIS Advisory Board and to the impetus that its members will bring. At the same time, we would like to express our sincere thanks to the previous members for their great commitment.

Best wishes go to the DIS Advisory Board for a successful and inspiring term of office.

We look forward to four years of successful collaboration.

Your DIS Team
 

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