Dr. Dr. h. c. Silvia Tellenbach
- Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau
- Founding member
- Member of the Committee 1999–2023
- Organised and chaired the annual conferences of 2003 and 2016
- Joint editor of ‘Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht IV’ (2004) and ‘Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht XII’ (2017)
- Reviewer for the Zeitschrift Recht & Islam / Journal of Law & Islam
- Research interests: Turkish criminal law and criminal procedure; Islamic criminal law in the modern world, particularly in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Honorary Professor Dr. Hilmar Krüger (1938–2020)
- Professor at the Institute for Private International and Foreign Law, University of Cologne
- Founding member of GAIR
- Chair of the Board of Trustees 2003–2020
- Organised and chaired the annual conferences of 2004 and 2006
- Research interests: private international law, civil procedure and arbitration law; the law of obligations, family and inheritance law, and commercial law of the states of the Near and Middle East including Turkey (past and present); Ottoman legal history; the law of fatwas. Some 350 relevant publications.
- Extensive work as a legal expert for courts, lawyers, notaries and companies; arbitrator in legal disputes between European and Middle Eastern parties.