The General Secretary and co-founder of ECCHR, a lawyer specializing in criminal law, has established an international reputation as an advocate for human rights. He made a name for himself when he filed suit against the U.S. Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes and torture committed at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

After completing his law degree in Bonn in 1990, Kaleck served as a legal intern  at the Comission de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala.  After founding the law firm Kaleck.Hummel.Rechtsanwälte in 1991, he worked as a specialist solicitor in criminal law. Since 1998 he has been an advocate for the Koalition der Straflosigkeit, which fights to hold Argentinean military officials accountable for the murder and disappearance of Germans during the Argentine dictatorship.

The former chairman of the Republican Women Lawyers and Attorneys Association (RAV) and former Vice President of the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL) is highly sought after human rights expert. Kaleck is a member of the Advisory Board at the Centre for European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (ZERP) and of the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law (FICHL).

Miriam Saage-Maaß is a program director at ECCHR and coordinates the business and Human Rights program. She studied law at Humboldt University in Berlin and has a Ph.D. from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt in Constitutional History.

Albert Koncsek studied Political Sciences, History and Philosophy in Trier and Budapest. For twelve years Mr Koncsek worked as executive director at the National Self-government of the German Minority in Budapest. He has been Operations Manager at ECCHR since November 2008.

Anna v. Gall received her legal education in Göttingen, Hamburg, Berlin and Kiew, and she specializes in Immigration Law, International Relations and in the field of Human Rights. She has worked in Namibia, Brüssels and most recently in Georgia. She is a member of the Coordination Committee Against Impunity of Amnesty International in Germany. For the ECCHR Gall coordinates our Gender and Human Rights Program.

Andreas Schüller graduated from law school in Trier, Germany, and holds a LL.M. advanced degree from Leiden University, Netherlands, in Public International Law. He specialized in International Criminal Law and is a member of Amnesty International Germany Working Group on International Justice. Mr Schüller is program manager of the ECCHR Universal Justice program.

Claudia Muller-Hoff, LL.M., worked in the legal education department in Mainz, Freiburg, Frankfurt Oder and in Glasgow, Scotland. She specialized in International Law at Warwick, England, and advocated on behalf of refugees and migrants in Germany. Her most recent position was as a human rights defense lawyer in Latin America. She works for ECCHR as project coordinator for our Business and Human Rights departments.

Claire Tixeire

From 2004-2011, Claire Tixeire worked for both the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), seeking criminal accountability for U.S. officials for torture, while representing FIDH before the United Nations. Claire obtained her law degrees from the Universities of Panthéon-Sorbonne and of Nanterre in Paris, and holds diplomas in International Law from the U.K. and Canada. With ECCHR, Claire works as a Project Coordinator.

After studying law in Münster, Cologne and Poitiers/France, Yvonne Veith worked as a lawyer in civil law. Since 2007 she works for ECCHR for the Business and Human Rights program where she now is active as a legal analyst.