Hon.-Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. Erich Kussbach, LL.M. (Yale)

Member of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution appointed by Austria from 2001 to 2021.

Former Member of the International Humanitarian Investigation Commission, Founding Rector of the Gyula Andrássy German Language University Budapest, retired Austrian ambassador; Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

1953, 1958 Universities of Budapest and Vienna (Dr. iur.; Dr. rer. pol.), 1961 Yale University (Master of Law).

1963 joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service. Most recently Ambassador to Hungary and Permanent Representative to the International Danube Commission 1993–1996.

Since 1996 Honorary Professor of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Linz.

Until 2008 Professor of International Law at the Catholic Pázmány Péter University in Budapest.

Author of numerous publications in the field of public international law, private international law, philosophy of law and political science.