The General Assembly has elected a new board

On 10 December 2025, the General Assembly elected a new board, with around 300 members casting their votes. In DIS's largest online general assembly to date, members selected 13 board members out of a total of 29 candidates. 

The following individuals received the largest number of votes and accepted their election to the new board (in alphabetical order):

• Niuscha Bassiri, ArbBoutique, Brussels
• Rouven F. Bodenheimer, Bodenheimer, Berlin/Cologne
• Jennifer Bryant, Noerr, Düsseldorf
• Florian Cahn, Framatome, Erlangen
• Stefan Kröll, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg – Kanzlei Prof. Kröll, Cologne
• Torsten Lörcher, CMS, Cologne
• Thomas Pfeiffer, Heidelberg University
• David Quinke, Gleiss Lutz, Düsseldorf
• Judith Sawang, Ashurst, Frankfurt am Main
• Jan K. Schäfer, King & Spalding, Frankfurt am Main
• Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts, Hanefeld, Hamburg
• Johanna Wirth, Hengeler Mueller, Berlin
• Reinmar Wolff, Philipps-Universität Marburg

In the coming weeks, the new Board of Directors will appoint the Presidium from among its members.

For further details on the DIS board elections, please refer to our press release (in German) dated 11 December 2025.

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