Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christiane Wendehorst, LL.M.
Legal scholar, University of Vienna, Austria
- Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna, Scientific Director of the European Law Institute and President of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Notable achievements: Instrumental in the founding of the European Law Institute; advises the European Commission, the European Parliament and the German Federal Government on digital issues; developed the scientific basis for a number of EU legal acts in the last 10 years
- Prizes & honors: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bern
- Other positions: Vice President of the Austrian Jurists' Conference and former Co-Chair of the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government; Member of the Bioethics Commission at the Austrian Federal Chancellery
