Name: Rüdiger Wolfrum
Position: Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Former President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Germany

Biography: Born in Berlin in 1941 Rüdiger Wolfrum gained his law degrees from the University of Bonn. After teaching initially at Bonn he spent a year at the |University of Virginia as a research fellow before returning to a professorial chair at the University of Kiel. He became the Director of the Max Plank Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law at Heidelburg in 1993. He has held numerous international offices including two long periods working at the Antarctic Treaty meetings first on Antarctic mineral resources and then on the Liability Annex to the Protocol. He has just stepped down from Chair of the Law of the Sea Tribunal. Author of numerous books and articles on international law, the law of the sea, human rights and Antarctic law.