Governing Board (2024)
President
Jean-Claude Juncker
Former President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister
Representing Luxembourg
Vice-President
Hendrik Hering
President of the Parliament of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Representing Rhineland-Palatinate
Members
For the European Parliament:
Katarina Barley
Vice-President of the European Parliament
For the Court of Justice of the European Union:
Koen Lenaerts
President of the Court
For Albania:
Ulsi Manja
Minister of Justice
For Austria:
Albert Posch
Head of the Constitutional Service at the Federal Chancellery, Sektionsleiter
Representative:
Christine Pesendorfer
Head of Section V/7 – European and International Law,
Human Rights Protection, Federal Chancellery
For Belgium:
Paul Van Tigchelt
Minister of Justice
For Bulgaria:
Mariya Pavlova
Minister of Justice
For Croatia:
Damir Habijan
Minister of Justice and Public Administration
For Cyprus:
George Savvides
Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus
For the Czech Republic:
Pavel Blažek
Minister of Justice
For Denmark:
Merethe Eckhardt
Director of Development, The Danish Court Administration
For Estonia:
Madis Timpson
Minister of Justice
For Finland:
Riku Jaakkola
Director General of the National Courts Administration
For France:
Cristina Mauro
Head of the European and International Department, Ministry of Justice
For Germany:
Volker Wissing
Federal Minister of Justice
For the German Länder:
Benjamin Limbach
Minister of Justice, North Rhine Westphalia
For Greece:
Ioannis Bougas
Deputy Minister of Justice
For Hungary:
Dr. Nora Jakubovich
Deputy State Secretary for International Judicial Cooperation
Ministry of Justice
For Ireland:
June Reardon
Office of the Attorney General
For Italy:
Chiara Amalfitano
Professor at the University of Milan
For Latvia:
Dace Kazāka
Director of Development Department at the Court Administration of the Republic of Latvia
For Lithuania:
Augustas Rucinskas
Chancellor of the Ministry of Justice
For Malta:
Jonathan Attard
Minister for Justice
For the Netherlands:
Margreet Blaisse
Rector of the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary (SSR)
For Poland:
Adam Bodnar
Minister of Justice
For Portugal:
Fernando Vaz Ventura
Director of the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ)
For Romania:
Alina–Ștefania Gorghiu
Minister of Justice
For Scotland:
Dorothy R Bain KC
The Lord Advocate
For Serbia:
Nenad Vujic
Director of the Judicial Academy
For Slovakia:
Milan Hodás
Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice
For Slovenia:
Blanka Javorac Završek
Director of the Judicial Training Centre
For Spain:
Laura Cambero Valencia
Director of the Centre for Legal Studies at the Ministry of Justice
For Sweden:
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:
N.N.
For the Association for the Promotion of the Academy:
Jettie Van Caenegem
Inhouse Counsel, President of the Friends of ERA Association
Co-opted:
Wolfgang Heusel
Former Director of the Academy of European Law Trier
Executive Board (2024)
Chairperson
SABINE VERHEYEN MEP
First Vice-President of the European Parliament
Member
State Minister HERBERT MERTIN †
Minister of Justice, Rhineland-Palatinate
ERA mourns the loss of its Executive Board member, Herbert Mertin, who passed away on 21 February 2025 at the age of 66 in Koblenz.
Board of Trustees (2024)
Chair
Chair
Marc van der Woude
President of the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg
Deputy Chairs
Adriana de Buerba
Partner at Pérez-Llorca, Madrid
Iris Goldner Lang
Professor at the University of Zagreb
Members
Director for Continuous Training at the Albanian Chamber of Advocacy
Vladimir Beljanski
President of the Bar Association of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
Anna Bryngelsson
Partner at Mannheimer Swartling, Malmö
Christopher Buttigieg
Chief Officer, Supervision, Malta Financial Services Authority, Birkirkara
Associate Professor, University of Malta
Jacek Chlebny
President of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court, Warsaw
Stefan Clauwaert
Senior Legal & Human Rights Advisor at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Brussels
Pierre-Henri Conac
Professor at the University of Luxembourg
Simone Cuomo
Secretary-General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Brussels
Catherine De Bolle
Director of Europol, The Hague
Ingrid Derveaux
Secretary-General of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), Brussels
Aileen Donnelly
Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland, Dublin
Natasha Gaber-Damjanovska
Former Director of the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje
Anna Gardella
Senior Legal Expert at the European Banking Authority (EBA), Paris
Cristina González Beilfuss
Professor at the University of Barcelona
Klaus Grabinski
President of the Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Luxembourg
Nina Gregori
Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), Valetta
Dineke de Groot
President of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, The Hague
Alice Guimaraes-Purokoski
Judge of the Finnish Supreme Court, Helsinki
Philippe Hoss
Partner at Elvinger Hoss Prussen, Luxembourg
Iris Kieft
Partner at NautaDutilh, Rotterdam
Vanessa Knapp OBE
Visiting Professor Queen Mary University of London
Laura Codruța Kövesi
European Chief Prosecutor, Luxembourg
Julia Laffranque
Judge at the Supreme Court of Estonia, Tartu
Marie Lamensch
Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Łukasz Lasek
Partner at Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw
Jean-Philippe Lhernould
Professor at the University of Poitiers
Norbert Lorenz
Director of the European Parliament’s Legal Service, Luxembourg
Paula Meira Lourenço
President of the Portuguese Data Protection Authority, Lisbon
Aude Mahy
Partner at DALDEWOLF, Brussels
Anna Marcoulli
Judge at the General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg
Sabine Matejka
Vice-President of the European Association of Judges (EAJ), Vienna
Madeleine Mathieu
Advocate-General at the French Court of Cassation; President of the Board of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), Brussels
Andrea Moravčíková
Vice-President of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava
Hara Nikolopoulou
Vice-President of the Hellenic Competition Commission, Athens
Rimvydas Norkus
Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Jan Passer
Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Vania Petrella
Partner at Cleary Gottlieb, Rome
Vânia Costa Ramos
Partner at Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados, Lisbon
Eszter Ritter
Partner at Lakatos, Köves and Partners Law Firm, Budapest
Christine Roger
Director General for Justice and Home Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Brussels
Jacob Sand
Partner at Gorrissen Federspiel, Copenhagen
Oliver Servas
Director of the German Judicial Academy, Trier/Wustrau
Marc Schmitz
President of the European Union of Judicial Officers, Brussels
Petra Senkovic
Director General Secretariat and Secretary to European Central Bank decision-making bodies, Frankfurt am Main
Nathalie Smuha
Assistant Professor at KU Leuven
Octavia Spineanu-Matei
Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Walter Szöky
President of the Europäische Union der Rechtspfleger (EUR), Vienna
Maciej Szpunar
First Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg
Miglena Tacheva
Director of the Bulgarian National Institute for Justice (NIJ), Sofia
Rudite Vidusa
Judge at the Latvian Supreme Court, Riga
Sophie Vuarlot Dignac
Head of Legal and Enforcement Department at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Paris
Eva Wendler
Vice-President of the Association of European Administrative Judges, Vienna
Michael Jürgen Werner
Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Brussels
Anne-Marie Witters
President of the Market Court, Brussels
Dragomir Yordanov
Executive Director of the European School of Enforcement, Sofia
Roman Završek
Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Brussels
Honorary Members
Francesco De Angelis
Hon. Director General of the European Commission, Brussels
David A. O. Edward
former judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Edinburgh
Charles Elsen
former Director General for Justice and Home Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Luxembourg
Gregorio Garzón Clariana
former Director General of the Legal Service of the European Parliament, Barcelona
Hans-Jürgen Hellwig
former President of the CCBE, Frankfurt am Main
Wolfgang Heusel
former Director of ERA
Pauliine Koskelo
Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg
Peter-Christian Müller-Graff
Senior Professor, Honorary Jean Monnet Professor, University of Heidelberg
Diana Wallis
former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Hull
Heinz Weil
former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Paris
