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The General Assembly of the DIS (German Institution of Arbitration) has elected its new Board of Directors on April 20, 2012 in Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel, who has been a member of the Board of Directors of the German Institute of Arbitration and the German Institution of Arbitration since 1974 (Deputy Chairman and from 1996 to 2012 Chairman ) did not run for reelection.

Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Böckstiegel and members of the Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Peter Schlosser, Prof. Dr. Fritz Nicklisch and Dr. Wolfgang Kühn decided to refrain from reelection to allow a generation change.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel has been appointed as Honorary President by the General Assembly. Prof. Dr. Peter Schlosser, Prof. Dr. Fritz Nicklisch and Dr. Wolfgang Kühn have been appointed as Honorary Members of the Board of Directors.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, who has been Deputy Chairman since 2008, has been elected as new Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Deputy Chairmen are Dr. Hannes Hesse ( reelected) and Konrad Klimek. The further members of the Board of Directors elected for the period from 2012 –2016 are:

• Prof. Dr. Siegfried H. Elsing, LL.M.

• Ulrike Gantenberg

• Dr. Klaus-A. Gerstenmaier

• Christian Graf

• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haas

• Prof. Dr. Bernd Hirtz

• Wingolf R. Lachmann

• Dr. Beate C. Ortlepp

• Prof. Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler, LL.M.

• Dr. Klaus Sachs

• Carmen Tontsch

• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner, LL.M.

• Prof. Dr. Stephan Wernicke

• Dr. Heiko Willems

• Dieter Zwernemann

The meeting of the General Assembly was held on the occasion of the DIS-conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the German Institution for Arbitration.

The subject-matter of the conference was „Arbitration in the field of Politics, Economy and Jurisdiction in the 21st century”.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel, Jens Bredow, Dr. Birgit Grundmann, Dr. Jörg Risse, Prof. Dr. Udo Steiner, Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, Dr. Torsten Lörcher, Jan Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haas, Konrad Klimek, Thomas Klippstein and Dr. Franz Schoser acted as speakers at the conference.

The conference, which was attended by more than 250 participants, was concluded with a Gala Dinner at the Bonn Hotel Kameha Grand.

Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel, President of the German Arbitration Institution DIS, announced that Francesca Mazza will join DIS as incoming Secretary General in October 2012. The current Secretary General, Jens Bredow, will retire from his position at the end of 2013.

Francesca joins DIS from the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, where she recently supervised the rules revision process and was responsible for co-drafting the new 2012 ICC Rules of Arbitration. In her function as leader of one of the case management teams of the Court, she has supervised hundreds of arbitration proceedings.

“We’re thrilled to bring Francesca on board. DIS made great strides these past years under the leadership of Jens Bredow. I know Francesca will build on its existing strengths and be an excellent leader,” said Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel. “Her cross-cultural background and experience and her passion for arbitration makes her the perfect choice for the role and for DIS.”

“I’m delighted to join DIS. DIS is a modern, forward-thinking and flexible institution with a great network. It has all the ingredients of a dynamic arbitration institution and I am excited to have been elected as its future leader.” said Mazza.

Francesca is an Italian national who read law in three different countries, is qualified as Rechtsanwältin in Germany and holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg.