About the Jury
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Guy Davidov
Guy Davidov is a professor at the BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Law and Governance (Oslo). He was the founder and first Chair (2011-2015) of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN), and Editor of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (2015-2020). His book A Purposive Approach to Labour Law was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. He has recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work (2024). His work has been cited with approval by courts in several countries, including the Supreme Courts of the UK and Canada.
Marta Otto
Marta Otto is an Assistant Professor of Labour Law and Social Policy at the University of Warsaw (Poland), holding an LL.M and PhD degree from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research focuses on European, International, and Comparative Labour Law, with a particular emphasis on privacy and data protection in employment, digital rights, algorithmic management, AI, and collaborative governance.
Amélie Sutterer-Kipping
Amélie Sutterer-Kipping has worked at the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation since February 2022. She is also a lecturer in European Labour and Economic Law at the European Academy of Labour at the University of Frankfurt. Since 2024, she has headed the Labour and Social Law Department at the HSI and has also served as an honorary judge at the Munich Labour Court. Amélie Sutterer-Kipping studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She wrote her doctoral thesis at Georg August University of Göttingen and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne as part of a cotutelle programme. She was awarded the Franco-German Dissertation Prize at the German Embassy in Paris for this thesis.
Mariagrazia Lombardi
Labour lawyer, PhD in labour law from the University of Siena, and currently serving as senior officer at the European Labour Authority
Cristina Mihes
Mrs Cristina Mihes is a former Head of Labour Law and Reform Unit at ILO HQ in Geneva. LABOURLAW provides integrated, proactive policy advice on what labour law and dispute resolution systems can do, based on global and regional comparative law and practice. Mrs. Mihes has been with the ILO for 25 years. Before to her assignment as Head of LABOURLAW, Ms. Mihes was the Senior Specialist in Social Dialogue and Labour Law in the ILO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe. In this capacity she was responsible for devising, coordination and delivery of technical assistance in labour law and industrial relations reforms, as well as in the area of social dialogue, labour dispute resolution and international labour standards in Central and Eastern European countries, including EU member states and candidate countries to the EU. Ms. Mihes has led research projects and authored, co-authored or edited a number of ILO studies and reports, technical publications and training guides on topics related, inter alia, to labour law reform, employment relationship and non-standard forms of employment, and labour dispute resolution institutions. MS. Mihes holds a PH. D. in International Labour Law, a M.A in Public Administration and a BSc in Chemical Engineering.
Zsófia Oláh
Zsófia is a senior employment law specialist and head of the labour law practice at OPL gunnercooke since 2011. With prior experience at top international law firms, she advises multinational companies on Hungarian and regional employment law matters. She is also an academic lecturer, regular author on labour law topics, and leader of an award-winning Ukrainian legal aid clinic recognized with the 2023 Hungarian Bar Association pro bono award.
Adam Pokorny
From October 2016 to April 2026 Adam Pokorny was head of the unit "Labour Law" in Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. His unit was responsible for the implementation of some twenty EU Directives covering individual and collective rights, notably concerning working time, written statement, fixed-term and part-time work, collective redundancies, information and consultation of workers, transfer of undertakings, European Works Councils, transparent and predictable working conditions. In previous postings in the European Commission he was responsible for the implementation of the European Social Fund and the European Semester policy analysis process for Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia (2012-16), for policy cooperation and funding programmes (Comenius, eTwinning) in the field of school education (2007-12), and on education policy coordination and negotiation of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme (2001-07). Before entering the European Commission he worked in the UK civil service in the Department for Education (1990-2001).
Zoltán Petrovics
Assistant Professor (ELTE Faculty of Law, Budapest), Associate Professor (Ludovika University of Public Service, Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies, Budapest), editor-in-chief of the Hungarian labour law journal, Munkajog. He was a member of the Hungarian Labour Mediation and Arbitration Service and the Sectoral Participation Determination Committee, the latter of which he chaired for seven years. He also participated in the work of four case law analysis groups at the Hungarian Supreme Court.
Peter Sipka
Péter Sipka works as a lawyer and university lecturer in Debrecen, Hungary. In his legal practice, he primarily provides legal services to companies in labour and corporate law. As a university lecturer, he teaches labour law, social law, and EU corporate law. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Debrecen Bar Association and the Hungarian Labour Law Association.
Prof. Dr. Marlene Schmidt
Professor Schmidt is an adjunct professor of, amongst other subjects, employment law at the Faculty of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She has published extensively on comparative, international and European aspects of employment law. Since 2009, she has worked full-time as a solicitor and specialist in employment law, and is therefore also highly experienced in the practical aspects of employment law. She is a co-founder and was for many years co-director of the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Labour Law, whose advisory board she now chairs.
Andreas Inghammar
I have a broad interest in international and comparative labour law, starting from my PhD were I compared Swedish, British and German employment protection and discrimination for persons with disabilities. I have been guest professor or researcher in Italy, Cambodia, Germany and the UK. Since almost 3 years I am the Deputy Dean of Lund University School of Economics and Management and I am a long-term member of the European Labour Law Network, reporting from Sweden.
Mária Kulisity
Mária Kulisity is judge at the Metropolitan Regional Court of Appeal, a visiting lecturer at the Károli University and Pécs University. She is teaching employment and labour law. She also teaches judges, lawyers and HR managers. She is a member of the European Network of Legal Advisers operating within the court, and as an advisory judge, she assists judges in adjudicating cases involving European Union and human rights issues. She is the vice president of the National Association of Labor Judges.