- Since February 2018: practicing law under the label “mnslaw&more”
- From February 1988 to January 2018: senior employee (for the most part) with General Reinsurance AG (formerly Cologne Reinsurance Company), Underwriting and R&D in the Casualty Lines of business
- Since September 1999: International Treaty Business Unit, in various senior positions (Referral-Underwriter, Line-of-Business Manager, Senior-LoB Underwriter)
- previously: Casualty Facultative, including various senior positions, in the German and various international markets (including a secondment to the U.S. from 1996 to 1999); Vice President since 1992
- 1988: Admission to the German Bar
- 1985 to 1988: Lecturer in Business Law at the University of Hamburg
- 1984: Juris Doctor (Dr. iur.)
- 1982 to 1985: Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Private Law (U.S. Section)
- 1977 to 1981: Study of Law at the Universities of Mannheim, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland
Languages: German and English (negotiating level), French and Spanish