Manuel Liatowitsch
Chairman of the NOMIS Foundation
Organization
NOMIS Foundation
About Manuel Liatowitsch
Manuel Liatowitsch has been chairman of the board of the NOMIS Foundation since 2022 and a board member since 2014.
He is Group General Counsel / Chief Legal Officer and Head of the Corporate Center at Ringier AG, a leading European media and technology company based in Switzerland and active in 20 countries. He is also a member of its Group Executive Board.
Before joining Ringier in 2020, Liatowitsch was for many years a partner at a leading Swiss business law firm, where he also served on the executive board. He specialized in complex international litigation and arbitration and also advised large privately held businesses, including family-owned groups, on corporate governance, dispute avoidance and succession.
Liatowitsch graduated from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1997 with a law degree, summa cum laude, and subsequently earned a doctorate in law, also summa cum laude. He spent two years in the United States as a visiting fellow at Yale University and a foreign associate at a leading New York law firm. He has authored numerous legal publications and co-authored a textbook on private international law. For many years, he was also a frequent lecturer at the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Law.
