Manuel Liatowitsch has been chairman of the board of the NOMIS Foundation since 2022 and a board member since 2014.

He is the group general counsel/CLO and head of the Corporate Center at Ringier AG, a leading European media and technology company based in Switzerland and active in 20 countries, and a member of its group executive board.

Liatowitsch graduated summa cum laude from the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1997 with master of law and subsequently earned a doctor of law (summa cum laude). Before joining Ringier in 2020, Liatowitsch worked for many years as a lawyer at Schellenberg Wittmer, one of Switzerland’s leading business law firms, where he became a partner in 2008 and a member of the executive board in 2015. He also served as a legal officer at the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, was a visiting fellow with Yale University’s International Security Studies, and worked as a foreign associate with a leading law firm in New York. He is the author of various legal publications, as well as co-author of a successful textbook on private international law and for many years was a frequent lecturer at the University of Zurich School of Law.