Fellow 2021-2022 HOLGER HESTERMEYER
Holger Hestermeyer is a Professor of International and EU Law at King's College London. He is a graduate of the universities of Münster and UC Berkeley, holds a Ph.D. from the university of Hamburg, and is admitted to the New York state bar and the German bar.
Before joining King’s College London, Holger worked as a researcher and, later, leader of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg. He left Heidelberg for Luxembourg where he joined the cabinet of the Spanish Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU as a Référendaire. From there, he joined King's College London as the Shell Reader in International Dispute Resolution.
Holger has published widely on constitutional, international, and EU law, including a monograph on TRIPS and access to medicines which was awarded an Otto Hahn Medal, an Otto Hahn Award and the ISUS prize and a monograph on federalism in Germany, the US and the EU; with which he was awarded the Habilitation qualification.
Holger advises on international and EU law, has served as a Specialist Adviser to the EU External Affairs Sub-Committee and the EU Select Committee of the House of Lords and is a past Co-executive Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law.
Holger has given expert testimony to parliamentary committees of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the Scottish Parliament and the German Bundestag, is frequently cited in the domestic and international media and has appeared on the BBC, Euronews, and Deutschlandfunk. Holger speaks German, Italian, Spanish and French.
He spends much of his spare time losing at board games against his two kids and his wife.