Prof. Dr. iur. Elmar M. Giemulla is a retired Professor of Administrative Law and Aviation Law at the Federal University of Administrative Sciences in Germany. He is an Honorary Professor of Aviation Law at the Berlin University of Technology and Dhirubhai Ambani University in India, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Aviation Law and Aviation Security Law at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, USA.

Professor Giemulla is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Europe GmbH and Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of the Aviation Law and Management Vertical. He also lectures in International Aviation Law at the IACT Training Institute of the General Civil Aviation Authority in Dubai. He is an Attorney at Law in Berlin and New York, President of AOPA Germany and President of the Federal Aviation Security Association Germany. From 2006 to 2022, he was a member of the Advisory Board of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH.

Professor Giemulla completed his First Legal State Examination in 1974 and his Second Legal State Examination in 1977, before obtaining his PhD in Law in 1979. He acquired a Private Helicopter Pilot’s Licence in 1984, completed the New York State Bar Examination in 1990 and obtained an Aviation Auditor Certificate in 2007.

His extensive professional experience includes lecturing on aviation law at universities and official training institutions, providing legal opinions to courts, companies and governments on aviation law matters, and advising governments on the restructuring of their legal and administrative aviation systems. He has authored several aviation law-related books and approximately 200 treatises addressing different areas of aviation law.